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QA Shift Leader

Employer
Jarvis Johnson
Location
Cambridgeshire
Salary
£ Competitive
Closing date
16 Oct 2019

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Contract Type
Permanent
Function
Quality Assurance, Technical
Business Sector
Food Manufacturing

Job Details

Our client, one of the UK’s leading Prepared Fresh Produce Manufacturers, is looking for a QA Shift Leader to manage a team of QAs on the day shift at their site based in Cambridgeshire.

Reporting to the Technical Manager, responsibilities for the role will include:

  • Organising the team rota ensuring all tasks are completed to schedule
  • Conducting appraisals and 1:1s for all team members in line with company guidelines
  • Working alongside the Technical Manager, to provide training for the QA team
  • Supporting the team to conduct and manage site audits – ensuring QA completion against the schedule and where appropriate managing non-conformances raised
  • Undertaking traceability and mass balance audits in accordance with the internal audit schedule
  • Conducting regular paperwork audits
  • Updating intake documents and when required liaising with suppliers
  • Sending, reviewing and closing off supplier non-conformance notices
  • Reviewing shelf life data and proposing corrective actions
  • Providing support during external audits and visits ensuring all complaints and audit actions are investigated, followed up and concluded
  • Supporting the submission of lab samples in accordance with sampling schedules
  • Supporting the Technical Manager, to ensure all equipment used in the measurement of food safety, quality and legality are calibrated in accordance with the calibration schedule

Essential / Desirable skills include:

  • Experience in the Food Manufacturing sector (ideally Fresh prepared produce) in a similar Quality Assurance role
  • An understanding of technical systems including HACCP (qualification desirable) and BRC
  • Experience managing a small team
  • Focussed and driven with strong organisational skills
  • High level of attention to detail
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Driving Licence

The Company:

  • One of the UK’s leading prepared fresh produce manufacturers supplying major UK retailers
  • Preparing unique combinations of vegetables to customer requirements
  • Well invested, highly automated site

The salary for this role is £Competitive.  Working hours are 6am – 7pm or 7am – 6pm dependent upon requirements on a 4 on 4 off shift pattern.

If you are interested, please apply AS SOON AS POSSIBLE quoting reference number JJ-P4390 with an updated CV, an indication of your current salary and your availability.

Company

Jarvis Johnson is a Specialist Recruitment and Interim Management Agency, set up by Technical Managers and “Placing Technical First” for the Food Manufacturing Industry.

We have a total database of over 6,500 candidates within our specialist areas of Technical, Quality and NPD, built up over the last 20 years.  

We identify candidates with specialist experience, seeking referrals from influential candidates within the market, combined with advertising on Food Industry specific and generalist job boards as well as searching external databases and our very wide LinkedIn Network.

We truly believe in building strong relationships with both our candidates and clients and we go the extra mile to find candidates who really fit in terms of experience, skills and personality/ culture fit.

If you’re an Interim Manager who wants to be notified on upcoming assignments or you are looking for a new permanent role and want to be kept updated on new vacancies then please email an updated CV together with location and remuneration details to enquiries@jarvisjohnson.co.uk 

If you are representing a Food Company and want to find out more about our Recruitment / Interim Management  services then please email enquiries@jarvisjohnson.co.uk  for a copy of our Terms of Business or call 01302 366967 to speak to our ex-Technical Manager Managing Director, Lisa Johnson

 

Company info
Website
Telephone
01302 366967
Location
70-72 Nottingham Road
Mansfield
Nottinghamshire
NG18 1BN
United Kingdom

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