Finsbury Food Group
Advanced Team Lead
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As Advanced Team Leader (Quality), you'll be responsible for monitoring product quality throughout the manufacturing process, carrying out routine testing, inspections and sampling activities to ensure products meet agreed specifications and food safety requirements. You'll investigate food safety, quality and legality incidents, managing holds, concessions, rejections and near misses while ensuring appropriate escalation where required.
You'll conduct internal audits across GMP, hygiene, CCPs, allergen controls, foreign body management, documentation and food safety systems, ensuring corrective actions are implemented and closed out effectively. You'll also support product trials, launches and process improvement initiatives, helping to reduce variation and improve process consistency.
You'll lead daily product quality evaluations, conduct routine quality testing including pH, allergen, weight control and calibration checks, and ensure labels and packaging comply with customer and legal requirements. In addition, you'll maintain traceability systems, complete traceability exercises and support customer visits, audits and external inspections.
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You'll champion GMP standards across the factory, coaching colleagues and challenging standards where necessary to drive continuous improvement. Working closely with Operations, Technical, Engineering and NPD teams, you'll use data and root cause analysis techniques to identify opportunities to improve quality performance, reduce waste and enhance manufacturing efficiency.
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You'll also support the wider shift leadership team and have the opportunity to deputise for the Manufacturing Shift Lead during periods of absence, providing valuable leadership experience as part of your career development pathway.
Ideally this is you!
- Previous experience within a food manufacturing quality role
- Level 3 Food Hygiene qualification
- Level 2 HACCP qualification
- Trained Internal Auditor with practical auditing experience
- Strong understanding of food safety, quality and legality requirements within a manufacturing environment
- Experience investigating non-conformances and applying root cause analysis methodologies
- Knowledge of GMP standards, allergen management and traceability requirements
- Experience contributing to continuous improvement initiatives
- Understanding of LEAN manufacturing principles (desirable)
- Knowledge of BRC standards and customer codes of practice
- Strong communication and influencing skills with the confidence to challenge standards when required
- Competent in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel and Outlook
- Ability to work independently and make informed decisions in a fast-paced environment
- Ambitious, proactive and motivated to develop into future leadership roles
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