Quality Assurance Supervisor

Our Vacancies; West Drayton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food manufacturer in the UK is looking for a QA Supervisor to lead the night shift quality assurance team. Responsibilities include ensuring product safety, conducting audits, and managing non-conformance issues. Ideal candidates will have food safety certifications and experience in food manufacturing. Join a supportive team with competitive benefits and development opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Holidays

Pension up to 8% matched

Life insurance up to 4x salary

Company share save scheme

Employee discount platform

Full Wellbeing Centre access

Enhanced parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Flexibility required to support hygiene audits.
• Experience of managing a team and leading people.
• Demonstratable non-conformance reporting techniques.

Responsibilities

• Lead a quality assurance team to ensure product safety.
• Complete audits and monitor output consistency.
• Train team on new processes and procedures.

Skills

Team management

Food safety knowledge

Flexibility

Auditing skills

HACCP principles

Microbiological awareness

Education

Higher National Diploma or equivalent experience

Level 2/3 food safety certification

Tools

Computer systems

Job description

Overview

Why Greencore?

We’re a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make everyday taste better.

We’re a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing 13,300 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK’s food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY24, we generated revenues of £1.8bn.

Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,500 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties.

Here at Heathrow, we are a growing team with around 450 colleagues. We produce chilled & hot eat Food for Now products including salads, sandwiches & wraps, Protein Pots & snacking. As well as Food for Later products such as ready meals & sides for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Amazon Fresh, Asda, Aldi, Co-op, Morrisons and Sainsbury’s.

Responsibilities

What you'll be doing

Shift Pattern: 4 on 4 off night blue shift

As QA Supervisor on the night shift you will lead a quality assurance QA team to verify that all materials including finished products are safe and conform to all relevant specification, legislation and customer requirements.

• Working closely with the Nights Production Manager to ensure the production of safe, legal food.
• Complete audits and key performance indicators and monitor the consistency of outputs across the team for compliance purposes
• Train the team to ensure that new process and procedures are adopted
• Building production team capability to improve communication and understanding of technical standards
• Investigating customer complaints or any non-conformance raised internal or externally to provide data which informs resolution
• Organise organoleptic panel to ensure consistent quality
• Ensure that a safe working environment exists for all colleagues and that as a minimum the department meets the standards set out in the Health Safety and Environment policy
• Managing the nights QA team, ensuring tasks are completed in line with schedules and trackers.
• Monitoring of micro results and initiating any investigations as required.
• Working closely with the hygiene team to ensure swabbing and hygiene audits are completed in line with schedules

Qualifications

What we’re looking for

• Flexibility required to support hygiene audits
• Ideally educated to Higher National Diploma level and/or experience within a similar role in food manufacturing
• Experience of managing a team and leading people
• Holds a Level 2/3 food safety certification
• Basic knowledge of weight legislation and allergen awareness/ practical management of allergens
• Experienced working with computer systems
• Understanding of internal audit process and technical key performance indicators
• Has CCP training including Hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP) principles for Manufacturing Unit
• Experience and knowledge of good manufacturing practice (GMP)
• Demonstratable non-conformance reporting techniques
• Microbiological awareness – understanding of basic of food safety
• Basic knowledge of hygiene principles and legal labeling practice

Benefits

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
• Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.