Quality Supervisor

ball; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food safety organization in Wakefield is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer (Food Safety Manager). You'll ensure compliance with food safety standards, oversee a team, and manage quality systems. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in food manufacturing and FMCG, with knowledge of ISO 9001 and food safety systems. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact within the organization.

Qualifications

• Must have experience in a food or food contact manufacturing environment.
• Proven experience in FMCG is essential.
• Knowledge of food safety systems and ISO 9001 is required.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate all site food safety activities and manage food safety QMS.
• Lead HACCP teams and ensure compliance with food safety standards.
• Manage site quality technicians and oversee their training and development.
• Monitor and report on site quality performance KPIs.

Skills

Experience in food or food contact manufacturing

Experience in FMCG

Knowledge of problem-solving

Knowledge of ISO 9001

Knowledge of Food Safety Systems (FSSC/ BRCGs)

Quality leadership experience

Education

Quality qualification such as CQi

Tools

Lean manufacturing tools

Job description

Position overview

As a Senior Quality Engineer (Food Safety Manager) you shall be the site quality specialist in ensuring products are manufactured to the required specifications, and monitoring processes to ensure they are within the required parameters, in order to meet plant quality performance targets and expectations. You’ll act as the site-designated food safety manager to coordinate all food safety activities, including management of the site food-safety QMS system, adherence to standards and compliance requirements.

Key responsibilities

• Designated plant food safety manager, leading HACCP team, and coordinating all site food safety activities (including GMP) to ensure compliance with required food safety standards, managing the systems and leading external audits to ensure continued certification.
• Management of certain parts of the quality management system, including auditing, documentation management, change management, calibration, trial management, etc.
• Leadership role to manage site quality technicians, including their training, development and task coordination.
• Plant quality operational systems (shopfloor online) super-user. Ensuring all aspects of quality control are built to ensure compliance of checks and quality monitoring.
• Reporting and managing critical site quality performance KPI’s, including product and process check completion, Ppk, quality alarms, out-of-specification products and processes. Monitoring the SPC for appropriate decision-making and reaction.
• Overseeing the site product release and quarantine processes.
• Be the site lead in product and process quality control matters, supporting correct decision-making, ensuring compliance with the decision, and managing incidents impacting product, process and system quality.
• Supporting investigation into customer complaints, including product containment, root-cause analysis and corrective/preventive action implementation.
• Develop site quality process control plans and improve product quality risks (FMEA’s).
• Ensuring compliance with Ball group quality standards and procedures, regarding process checks, product checks, product release and any other quality matter.
• Participating in regular operational and quality meetings to review and present quality performance and take action to reduce variation, implement improvement, support activities to ensure plant performance targets are met.
• Deliver success by leading improvement (Six-Sigma/ DMAIC/ Quality Excellence) projects.

What are we looking for?

• Experience in food or food contact manufacturing environment (essential)
• Experience in FMCG (essential)
• Experience with lean manufacturing tools (desirable)
• Knowledge of problem-solving (essential)
• Knowledge of ISO 9001 (essential)
• Knowledge of Food Safety Systems (FSSC/ BRCGs) (essential)
• Quality qualification such as CQi (desirable)
• Quality leadership experience (essential)

Ball Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, faith, ability, or orientation.

When you join Ball you belong to a team of over 16,000 members worldwide. Our products range from infinitely recyclable aluminium cans, cups to aerosol bottles solutions that enable our customers to contribute to a better world. Each of us has a deep commitment to diversity and inclusion which is the foundation of our culture of belonging. Everyone at Ball is making a difference by doing what we love. Because what we create may change, but what we will always make is a difference.

No agencies please.