Quality Manager – Food Manufacturing
Salary between £42,880 - £48,880 DOE
Blackburn, Lancashire
Full time, permanent position, Monday-Friday
We are proud to be working with one of the UK’s leading ambient cake manufacturers who supply their products to leading retailers and export partners.
They are currently recruiting a Quality Manager to lead a quality assurance team to verify that all materials including finished products are safe and conform to all relevant specifications, legislation and customer requirements.
This is a full-time, permanent role based at the Shadsworth and Blackburn bakeries.
Who are we looking for?
We are looking for a technically minded individual with experience working within a quality role from a food manufacturing background, ideally bakery.
You’ll have experience in ensuring that all materials including finished products are safe and conform to all relevant specifications, legislation and customer requirements.
It would be highly advantageous if you have a food-related degree as well as experience of retailer & BRC audits.
Previous experience managing people/shift patterns would also be advantageous as you will be responsible for a team of 6 (4x quality auditors, 2x raw materials quality auditors).
The role of Quality Manager
· Management of the QA team to ensure coverage across all shifts as required.
· Complete audits and monitor the consistency of outputs across the team for compliance purposes.
· Complete KPIs and monitor the consistency of outputs across the team for compliance purposes.
· Training the team to ensure that new processes and procedures are adopted.
· Building production team capability to improve communication and understanding of technical standards.
· Investigating customer complaints or any non-conformance raised internally or externally to provide data which informs resolution.
· Organises organoleptic panels to ensure consistent quality.
· Ensure that a safe working environment exists for all employees and that as a minimum the department meets the standards set out in the SHE policy.
About our client
Our client is one of the UK’s leading ambient cake and chilled dessert manufacturers of retailer own label, licensed and branded cakes, supplying recognisable major retailers across the UK and European market.
Their team of experts develop and manufacture a wide range of high-quality ambient cake products across several different categories including celebration cakes, mini rolls, mince pies, fruit pies and a wide range of chilled desserts including cheesecake, crumbles and sponge cakes. These include mince pies, celebration cakes, slab cakes, cupcakes and many more!
They are passionate about their products and aim to put the customer at the heart of everything they do.
With recent investment and acquisitions taking them to nearly 1,400 direct employees, this is an exciting time to join! They are continually looking to grow, but can only do that with exceptional talent across all levels and disciplines of the business. That is where you come into it!
On top of making some delicious cakes and desserts, they do a lot of fun stuff too! Whether that be Christmas fun days, pancake-flipping competitions, Red Nose Day events or odd-sock days, you’ll be coming to work smiling.
What benefits do they offer?
Financial
· Salary between £42,880 - £48,880 depending on experience
· 4x Life Assurance/Death in Service Benefit
· Access to the company Benefits Hub
· Access to ‘Company Shop’ – a discounted re-distributor of surplus food and household products
Health & Wellbeing
· 25 days holiday per annum (plus statutory holidays)
· 24/7 Access to a GP
· 24/7 Bereavement Support
Personal & Professional Development
· Dedicated in-house Learning & Development/Training team
· Online training platform with access to 100+ training courses
A few other bits
· Quarterly and Yearly Awards – recognising those who have gone above and beyond!
· Free on-site parking
· Free refreshments
