Quality & Continuous Improvement Leader – Food Safety

Premier Foods; Kirklington CP; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Premier Foods is seeking an experienced Quality Manager for our Worksop site. You will lead the site Quality and Food Safety agenda, ensuring products are safe, legal and right first time, while building quality capability across the factory.

With a strong Continuous Improvement mindset, you will balance quality with operational performance and commercial priorities, guiding investigations and driving sustainable improvements on a large, complex manufacturing operation.

Qualifications

• Hands-on continuous improvement experience and mindset.
• Strong knowledge of HACCP, food safety, FSQMS and factory quality controls.
• Ability to influence, challenge and take people with you through change.
• Commercial mindset balancing quality, food safety and operational performance.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and root cause analysis capability.
• Proven experience leading and developing Quality teams.
• Experience of BRCGS, retailer standards, Lead/Internal Auditing or Advanced HACCP would be an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Lead quality and food safety standards across the site.
• Put quality and food safety at the heart of operational decision-making.
• Use CI tools, data and insight to identify losses and drive sustainable improvements.
• Influence cross‑functional teams, challenge effectively and drive change across a complex operation.
• Lead investigations, root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Build a strong quality culture and greater ownership within factory teams.
• Lead, coach and develop the Quality team.

Skills

Hands-on CI experience

HACCP & FSQMS knowledge

Influence & change leadership

Commercial mindset

Analytical & root cause analysis

Leading quality teams

BRCGS/retailer standards awareness

Job description

Premier Foods is seeking an experienced Quality Manager for our Worksop site. You will lead the site Quality and Food Safety agenda, ensuring products are safe, legal and right first time, while building quality capability across the factory.

With a strong Continuous Improvement mindset, you will balance quality with operational performance and commercial priorities, guiding investigations and driving sustainable improvements on a large, complex manufacturing operation.