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Quality Manager - Food

Employer
Silven Recruitment Limited
Location
Cumbria
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
22 Jul 2019

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Contract Type
Permanent
Function
Quality Assurance
Business Sector
Food Manufacturing

Job Details

Quality Manager – Food

Cumbria / North Lancashire
Up to £45,000

Job Reference: GG/5423

Are you a Food Quality Manager with commercial acumen and a robust management style? If so, this role could be perfect... The right candidate will become a key player within a dynamic group of companies. They will have full responsibility for the site's quality function and report directly into Site Manager.

The Company:

  • A market leader
  • Meat Industry
  • People and Quality Focussed (profits are reinvested in the business)
  • The company's site is in Cumbria and commutable from Lancashire


The Role:

Leading the Quality team and working closely with internal and external contacts to co-ordinate and control the Quality function throughout the site to ensure that product entering and leaving the premises meets the required specifications as defined by the operating and quality procedures.

  • Working closely with the production teams to establish procedures, standards and systems
  • Determining, negotiating and agreeing in house quality procedures, standards and specifications
  • Leading a GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) programmed system with buy in from senior team
  • Assessing customer requirements; ensuring that these are met
  • Specify quality requirements of raw materials with suppliers
  • Investigating and defining standards for quality and Health & Safety
  • Ensuring that manufacturing processes comply with both national and international standards
  • Production of management and technical reports, and customer charters
  • Determining training needs across the site, liaising with management team to ensure completion
  • Record, analyse and distribute statistical information to support performance monitoring
  • Responsible for health and safety of the work environment
  • Any additional activities as required by the management team.
  • Overseeing external and internal audits
  • Line management


The Candidate:

Essential:

  • Previous experience of FMCG or similar manufacturing environment
  • Good level of English: spoken & written


Desirable:

  • Previous experience in a leadership role
  • Strong communication skills; able to challenge and engage across all levels of the business and external customers
  • Able to lead and motivate the team
  • Flexible with a hands-on approach
  • Demonstrates integrity
  • Creates solutions
  • Methodical approach to problem solving


Next steps.

Get in touch! If you think this role is for you, send your CV to gilbert.gregory@silven.co.uk with GG/5423 as a subject or give me a call on 0161 832 7463.

Company

The Silven team is full of passionate, committed and personable people, who have built their careers recruiting into their specialist markets.

We’ve developed many long standing client and candidate relationships along the way; mainly because we delight in helping companies to realise their plans and in assisting candidates to advance their careers.

If you are a client or candidate seeking advice and a service based on experience and knowledge of your market, we’d love to hear from you. Contacting us could be the best thing you do today.

Company info
Website
Telephone
0845 0036872
Location
Clarence House
4 Clarence Street
Manchester
Greater Manchester
M2 4DW
GB

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