Quality Assurance Manager
Near Dorchester
Food manufacturing
£Competitive
Day based
My Client, an award-winning food manufacturer based in the Dorchester area, is looking to recruit a Quality Assurance Manager / Quality Manager. Reporting into the site Technical Manager, the successful candidate's main remit will be to lead and motivate the Quality Assurance team in monitoring and evaluating product and processing systems. Main accountabilities will include understanding and applying relevant standards so that company, customer, and legal requirements are achieved and maintained.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Understanding and applying relevant standards & codes of practice to ensure business, customer, BRC, and legal requirements are achieved and maintained.
2. Ensuring that the requirements of HACCP are implemented, maintained, and achieved, including involvement in the evaluation of risks and defining controls prior to the introduction of a new process, product, or raw material.
3. Driving quality standards across the factory, maintaining a culture of high performance and compliance.
4. Understanding, implementing, and reviewing documented quality management systems to enable the production of the agreed safety and quality standards.
5. Supporting operations with the compilation and document control of operational procedures and overseeing the completion and retrieval to maintain traceability.
6. Managing and responding to internal and external complaints, identifying root causes.
7. Supporting the Technical Manager and business with the management of audits, hosting audits as appropriate, and managing the response & close out of non-conformance reports from audits as required.
8. Leading, motivating, and managing the training & development requirements of the QA team, ensuring that direct reports are properly equipped to undertake their roles and achieve personal development and continuous improvement.
9. Managing the lab portal to ensure testing suites are up to date, analyzing results, and leading root cause investigations with appropriate operational and hygiene teams as required, verifying corrective actions taken.
10. Generating technical business KPI information, communicating, trending, and highlighting issues, developing and agreeing on action plans, and driving the business forward through Continuous Improvement.
Skills / Experience Required:
1. Previous Quality Management experience in the Food Industry
2. HACCP knowledge
3. Good communicator and people person
This role may suit a person that has previously worked in a QA, QC, Quality Assurance, QSM, or Compliance role. This role is commutable from Weymouth, Dorchester, Yeovil, Blandford, and Poole.
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