Michael Page
QA Manager (FMCG Food Manufacturing)
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Role Overview
This role is responsible for leading and developing a quality assurance team within a very fast-paced chilled food manufacturing environment, ensuring products are safe, compliant, and meet customer and regulatory requirements through effective quality systems, auditing, and performance management.
Client Details
Our client is a major player within the UK's chilled ready meal manufacturers, producing retailer own-label ready meals and prepared foods for some of the biggest food retailers in the country.
Description
- Lead, manage, and develop the Quality Assurance team, including performance management and training.
- Ensure products are manufactured safely and meet customer, quality, and food safety standards.
- Support and prepare for customer and third-party audits, and deputise for the Technical Manager when required.
- Monitor compliance with technical policies, procedures, HACCP requirements, and critical control points (CCPs).
- Maintain quality systems and ensure accurate documentation to support food safety and due diligence requirements.
- Manage testing schedules for raw materials, finished products, environmental monitoring, taste panels, and laboratory samples.
- Oversee equipment calibration schedules and ensure corrective actions are implemented where necessary.
- Conduct and support internal audits, validation, and verification activities.
- Analyse quality and laboratory data, identify trends, investigate non-conformances, and drive corrective actions.
- Manage process deviations, incidents, concessions, and support customer complaint investigations.
- Attend customer panels and liaise with customers on quality-related matters.
- Review contractor and service provider performance (e.g., pest control) and ensure actions are completed.
- Work with suppliers to manage raw material non-conformances and verify corrective actions.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver technical projects and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
- Report quality performance and key metrics to the business and escalate issues where appropriate.
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The successful applicant will have:
- HACCP Level 3 - Essential
- HACCP Level 4 and Food Safety Level 4 desirable.
- Degree/HND in food-related discipline.
- Chilled Food Manufacturing background - chilled ready meals experience essential.
- Management of small team of people.
- Good knowledge of Validation & Verification.
- Ability to write reports & analyse data.
- Internal Auditing Qualification (Lead Auditor or similar).
- Sound knowledge of BRC & interpreting customer policies.
Job Offer
- Salary between £36,000 and £42,000, dependent on the level of experience.
- Permanent role based in Wrexham.
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