Quality Supervisor

Cranswick Country Foods PLC; Wembley; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Quality Supervisor at a leading food manufacturer in Wembley. The candidate will monitor quality and safety, lead a team, maintain essential records, and ensure compliance with industry standards. If you have a flexible attitude and experience in quality control, this role offers a chance to make a significant impact.

Qualifications

• Good understanding of English, both written and verbal.
• Able to communicate effectively with management and colleagues.
• Flexible and positive attitude towards work.

Responsibilities

• Lead and motivate the QATs team to ensure quality standards.
• Maintain quality records and ensure compliance.
• Monitor quality systems and carry out checks.

Skills

Communication

Numerical skills

Organisational skills

Record keeping

Tools

Word

Excel

Outlook

Job description

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An exciting new opportunity has arisen for a Quality Supervisor to join the team at our Wembley site.

Job Purpose:

Monitor the safety, legality and quality of all the products produced by the factory ensuring all agreed specifications and standards are met.

Main Duties:

• To lead and motivate the QATs team in monitoring and evaluating product and processing systems and factory practices to ensure agreed standards of quality and food safety are achieved.
• Assisting the Quality Manager in the maintenance of factory-based paperwork.
• Maintenance of all quality records. Control the issuing, collection and filing away of all factory & QA paperwork
• Monitor quality systems on factory floor and carry out quality checks as necessary.
• Be the first point of contact with the QAT’s in dealing with day-to-day raw material and quality issues with production and report to the Quality Manager
• Manage and organise the allocation of workload, weekly rota within the QAT’s team.
• Issuing out Work Schedules to QAT’s and monitor to make sure they are completed on timely manner.
• Monitor samples and swabs are logged correctly on the lab system.
• Laise with lab regarding samples and swabs enquires be the first point of contact.
• Monitor all microbiological testing – both the schedules and results. Ensure any deviations are recorded, reported and acted accordingly.
• Assist with resolution of any microbiological or hygiene non – compliance in the factory.
• Carry out investigative swabs to monitor hygiene standards and investigate out of specification results.
• Co-ordinate the collection and distribution of standard product samples.
• Monitoring of Controlled documents on factory floor and making sure that it is collected and filed away in orderly fashion by QAT’s from respective circuits on daily basis.
• Update documents where required - following new launches and any changes in the company QMS Procedure and policies.
• Carry out corrective action following internal or external non-conformances, or out of specification micro results and assist in the investigation and response of customer complaints.
• Responsible for carrying out a Quality Control circuit as required in absence of QAT’s.
• Assist in any 3rd Party and retailer / customer / Local Authority audits as required.
• Manage effective communications internally with all departments to ensure all the technical needs are met.
• Manage effective communications externally with supplier where required to ensure all the technical needs are met.
• Sign out all the schedule once completed weekly and monthly and handover to Quality Manager.
• Sign out Factory Non-conformance and Foreign body forms completed by QAT’s.
• Raising Supplier non conformance for the non-conforming products and packaging received also assist QAT’s when required.
• Responsible Concession & Hold release tracker to make items are logged correctly.
• Responsible Calibration Tracker and arrange items to send for calibration as required.
• Organise Validations, write reports for the audits and validation carried out and assist to other QATs when required.
• Carry out Investigations and briefings for the QAT’s for the day-to-day work not completed or to close any nonconformance.
• Carry out any project work as required within the department.

Requirements, Experience and Person Specification:

• Basic Induction Training
• Basic Food Hygiene Training as appropriate.
• Basic Health & Safety Training as appropriate.
• Good understanding of English, both written and verbal
• Able to communicate effectively with management and colleagues within a multicultural workforce
• Good numerical, organisational and record keeping skills
• Able to work quickly and methodically and maintain a high level of concentration at all times.
• Able to follow instruction and show initiative where needed.
• Quick Learner and mechanically minded.
• Flexible and positive attitude towards work.
• Physically fit to carry out duties involving lifting, carrying, twisting, bending, stretching, reaching etc.
• Any other training specific to job description.
• Computer Skill, Word, Excel & Outlook.

A full job description is available upon request

Salary to be discussed at interview stage