Why Greencore?We're one of the UK's leading producers of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better.As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we're proud to employ over 13,300 talented colleagues across 16 manufacturing sites and 17 distribution depots throughout the UK. Together, we bring delicious food to life, from sandwiches, soups, and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles, and ready meals. In FY24, our shared passion helped us achieve revenues of £1.8bn.Our extensive direct-to-store (DTS) network, with 17 depots nationwide, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring our customers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.Here at Crosby, we have a team of around 300 colleagues. We produce sushi for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Asda, Aldi, Co-op, Morrisons and Sainsbury's.What you'll be doingAs a Quality Assurance 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 requirementsProvide information and demonstrate operational practice in support of external audits to enable compliance with customer requirementsContinue to develop the capability of the Quality Assurance team through the technical strategyMonitor departmental key performance indicators adjusting team activity to ensure targets are achievePlan and maintain resource utilisation to advise the required quality assurance tasksLead and deliver a project(s) to create business effectiveness and cost efficiencyBuilding production capability and understanding to achieve relevant technical requirementsEnsure 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 PolicyWhat we're looking forWe'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 experienceHolds an intermediate Food Hygiene certificate level 3 and level 3 Health and SafetyExperience in a food manufacturing environmentAbility to use computer programmes including Word, Excel and related technical IT packagesKnowledge of the HACCP principles and practiceKnowledge of allergen awareness-implications / related to labelling and nutritional awarenessDemonstratable shelf-life determination and awarenessExperience and knowledge of hygiene and disinfection principlesCan demonstrate basic micro awarenessKnowledgeable about the principles of risk assessmentKnowledgeable about legal labelling as a basic requirementBasic knowledge of weight legislationKnowledge 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 returnCompetitive salary and job-related benefitsHolidaysPension up to 8% matchedLife insurance up to 4x salaryCompany share save schemeGreencore QualificationsExclusive Greencore employee discount platformAccess to a full Wellbeing Centre platformEnhanced parental leave and menopause policiesThroughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.
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Quality Assurance Manager