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 around 13,600 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 FY23, we generated revenues of £1.9bn. Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,400 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties.
Here at Heathrow, we are a growing team with around 450 colleagues. We produce chilled & hot eat Food for Now products including salads, sandwiches & wraps, Protein Pots & snacking. As well as Food for Later products such as ready meals & sides for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Amazon Fresh, Asda, Aldi, Co-op, Morrisons and Sainsbury's.
What you'll be doing Shift: Mon to Fri Due to an internal promotion we have a Quality Assurance Manager vacancy! As Quality Manager your role will be to lead and co-ordinate the work of the quality assurance teams to deliver and implement service improvement, in line with operational day to day needs with regards to safety, quality, legality and customer requirements.
Direct the team 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 Quality Assurance team through the technical strategy Monitor departmental key performance indicators adjusting team activity to ensure targets are achieve 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 Building production capability and understanding to achieve relevant technical requirements Ensure that a safe working environment exists for all colleagues and that as a minimum the department meets the standards set out in the Health Safety and Environment Policy 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.
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 Can demonstrate basic micro awareness Knowledgeable about the principles of risk assessment Knowledgeable about legal labelling as a basic requirement Basic knowledge of weight legislation Knowledge of technical key performance indicatorsThese may be trained or developed. These do not all need to be in place at recruitment. If this sounds like you join us, 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