Quality Zone Manager

Greencore Group Lts; England; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Greencore Group Lts is looking for a Quality Zone Manager for their Warrington site, responsible for implementing quality management systems and ensuring compliance with safety and customer requirements. Ideal candidates will have a food-related degree, internal audit experience, and a strong understanding of HACCP principles. This role offers competitive remuneration, benefits, and opportunities for professional development.

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

Employee discount platform

Wellbeing Centre platform

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level with a Food specialism or equivalent qualification.
• Previous internal audit experience is essential.
• Holding a level 3 Food Hygiene certificate and Health and Safety.

Responsibilities

• Deliver and implement service improvements focusing on safety, quality, and compliance.
• Monitor key performance indicators to achieve departmental targets.
• Lead projects for business effectiveness and cost efficiency.

Skills

HACCP principles

Food Hygiene

Allergen awareness

Internal audit

Technical IT packages

Education

Degree with Food specialism

Job description

Quality Zone Manager (032744) Warrington, England

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.

Our Warrington site is also known as the Italian centre of excellence, recent expansion and investment make this site a state-of-the-art manufacturing unit! We produce high quality Italian ready meals for both Tesco & Co-Op.

What you’ll be doing

PM Shift - 17:00 - 00:30 - Mon - Fri (Factory-based role)

To deliver and implement service improvement in line with operational day to day needs with regards to safety, quality, legality and customer requirements:

* To deliver the quality management system including the internal audit plan in order to ensure compliance with customer, manufacturing unit, legislative, divisional and strategic requirements

* Provide information and demonstrate operational practice in support of external audits to enable compliance with customer requirements

* Continue to develop the capability of the production teams through the technical strategy

* Monitor departmental key performance indicators to ensure targets are achieved

* Plan and maintain resource utilisation to advise the required quality assurance tasks

* Lead and deliver a project(s) to create business effectiveness and cost efficiency

What we’re looking for

We’re not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.

We’re proud to be recognised in the Gender Equity Measure Top 100 for our commitment to gender equality.

* Educated to degree level with a Food specialism or equivalent qualification (or has relevant work experience)

* Has previous internal audit experience

* Holds an intermediate Food Hygiene certificate level 3 and level 3 Health and Safety

* Experience in a food manufacturing environment

* Ability to use computer programmes including Word, Excel and related technical IT packages

* Knowledge of the HACCP principles and practice

* Knowledge of allergen awareness-implications / related to labelling and nutritional awareness

* Demonstratable shelf-life determination and awareness

* Experience and knowledge of hygiene and disinfection principles

If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.

What you’ll get in return

• 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

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