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    QA Manager - BO'NESS, United Kingdom - Bakkavor

    Bakkavor
    Bakkavor BO'NESS, United Kingdom

    2 weeks ago

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    QA Manager

    Location - Bakkavor Bo'ness

    Salary: £35,000 - £50,000 per annum (depending on experience)

    Working Hours:

    Days of Work: Monday-Friday

    Benefits Package:


    Bonus:
    Up to 10% (depending on the companies annual performance)
    34 Days Annual Leave p/a
    Pension
    Private Medical
    Life Insurance
    Flexible benefits package

    Excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group

    We're proud to offer you a career with possibilities. To encourage you to work hard, aim high and bring your best to work, every day.

    To know that as a valued QA Manager, we'll support your ambition, reward your resilience and encourage you to create a career you can be proud of too.

    About Us:

    We're the biggest name you've never heard of. You've probably eaten our food - you just didn't realise it. We make innovative fresh products, with around 18,500 colleagues working across the UK, US and China.

    We're the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers (including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose).

    We're ambitious. We're full of ideas. And we're ready for more people who share our values and passion for quality to join us.

    Our Business:

    Bakkavor is one of the leading providers of fresh prepared food in the UK, with an international presence in the US and China.

    Our 19,000 employees operate from 39 locations, developing and producing innovative food for a wide variety of occasions and budgets.

    In the UK, we work with leading grocery retailers, focusing on their own label brands.

    Our Bakkavor business in Bo'ness, based near Falkirk, specialises in the production of fresh, high quality salad products working primarily with premium retailers.

    To give you a sense for the scale of manufacturing in Bo'ness we produce over 70million salad based meals and side dishes from our 2 manufacturing facilities employing over 1200 people in the town.

    The Role:

    We are recruiting for a QA Manager (Quality Assurance Manager) to lead and motivate the QA team in monitoring and evaluating product and processing systems and factory practices.


    You will be tasked to ensure agreed standards of quality and food safety are achieved and improved upon and in addition to take a lead in generating and building a quality culture .

    Your main accountabilities will include understanding and applying relevant standards so that Bakkavor, Customer BRC and Legal requirements are achieved and maintained.

    You will also be responsible for ensuring there is a systematic, comprehensive HACCP system that is implemented and maintained, reviewing Quality Management Systems, Internal Audits, Identifying Technical Training requirements at all levels in the business (e.g. HACCP, food hygiene etc.) to ensure that all employees are properly equipped to undertake their roles as well as developing action plans to drive improvement.

    Your main accountabilities will include:

    Understanding and applying relevant standards and codes of practice so that Bakkavor, Customer, BRC and legal requirements are achieved and maintained.


    Ensuring that the requirements of HACCP are implemented, maintained, and achieved.

    Involvement in the evaluation of risks and defining controls, prior to the introduction of a new process, product, or raw material.

    Understanding, implementing, and reviewing quality management systems associated with the production of food to the agreed safety and quality standards.

    Implementing, maintaining, and reviewing an audit system to ensure that critical procedures for product safety, legality and quality are in place and complied with.

    In addition, review all internal findings, identify trends, and implement appropriate preventative measures.

    Supporting the Technical Manager & the business with management of audits, hosting audits as appropriate. Managing response & close out of non-conformance reports from audits as required.


    Effectively communicating with internal and external customers, suppliers, and production teams to ensure all the technical needs of the business are met.

    Deputise for the Technical Manager in their absence

    Managing the training & development requirements of the technical team and ensuring that direct reports are properly equipped to undertake their roles.


    Managing the QA team including recruitment and personal development of the team.

    Generating technical business KPI information, communicating, trend and highlight issues. Developing and agree action plans and through Continuous Improvement drive the business forward.

    Ensuring that a safe working environment exists for all employees within the QA team and that as a minimum the standards set out in the H&S manual are met.


    About You

    Ideally, you will have previous experience within a similar Technical/QA Manager role within a fast faced high care food manufacturing environment and a good knowledge of food safety.

    The ability to demonstrate our key values of customer care, can-do attitude, teamwork and not just getting it right but keeping it right - will be key.

    You will be energetic, punctual, proactive, and reliable with the ability to lead, guide, and motivate others towards achievement whilst maintaining good GMP Standards.


    What you can expect from us:

    When joining us you can expect a highly competitive rewards package including group pension and other flexible benefits - alongside excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group.

    Proud to be Bakkavor

    We're proud to be the leading UK provider of innovative, high-quality, fresh prepared food. We're proud to be driven by the hard work and passion of our people. And we're proud to offer a wide range of careers full of support and opportunity. Join our team and we'll make you proud too.

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