Quality Assurance Manager

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 Atherstone, we have a team of around 550 colleagues. We produce sandwiches, wraps, rolls, bircher pots and toasties for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Aldi, Shell, Costa & Cafe Nero.



What you'll be doing

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 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 .



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 indicatorsWe're proud to be recognised in the Equity Measure Top 100 for our commitment to equality.



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