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Job Description

Quality Manager

Location: Carlisle - Onsite

Working Hours: Monday - Friday 08:30 - 17:00 initially with flexibility required to cover absence, sickness and holiday across other teams including weekends and night shifts.

About Us

Join 2 Sisters Food Group, one of the UK's largest food manufacturers, with an annual turnover exceeding £3 billion and approximately 13,000 employees across 16 sites. This is an exciting opportunity for an individual that's eager to launch their planning / scheduling career. We have a strong presence in poultry, chilled, and bakery food categories, including popular brands like Holland's pies. We are committed to delivering high-quality products to the British public and our retail and food service customers, including major retailers like Aldi, Asda, Co-op, KFC, Lidl, Marks & Spencer, Morrison's, Sainsbury's, Tesco, and Waitrose.

About the Role

The Quality Manager is responsible for ensuring that all food production adheres to safety, regulatory, and customer requirements. Leading a team of Shift Technologists and QAs, this role is hands-on and emphasises compliance, conducting audits, and driving continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Leading and developing your team of Shift Technologists and Quality Controllers, working to ensure all food is produced to the agreed standards and specifications.




• Ensuring all food safety and hygiene standards are always adhered to, and that all colleagues are aware of their responsibilities.




• Maintaining a robust system for documentation, from incoming materials through to finished product.




• Investigating and incidents and non-conformance and putting corrective actions in place.




• Being a key contact for customer and BRC audits.

About You
This role is ideal for a detail-oriented quality professional with strong leadership skills and a background in food production quality assurance.

Key Skills

• Prior experience of leading a technical/quality team in a manufacturing environment




• Ideally educated to HND or Degree level in Food Science or similar, although this is not essential.




• Advanced Food Safety and Intermediate HACCP qualifications.




• Proactive and highly organised, able to prioritise a busy workload in a fast-paced environment.




• Good communications skills, able to work well with colleagues at all levels.

Benefits

* 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays)
* Company pension scheme with Legal & General or NEST pension
* Death in service benefit, optional - linked to membership of L&G pension
* Company sick pay - after qualifying period
* Free onsite parking
* Exclusive 2 Sisters employee discount platform available via an app offering savings of up to 60% with brands including Asda, Morrisons, Marks and Spencer and Tesco.
* Employee assistance programme.
* Wisdom wellbeing app
* Grocery Aid - employees access to counselling

Why Join Us?
As one of the UK's largest food manufacturers, we provide ample opportunities for career growth and skill development. We emphasize promoting from within, ensuring you can build a rewarding career with us

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