Quality Manager – 884366 – £Competitive

The Role

• Supporting the Technical Team to ensure that all products manufactured by the Company meet Food safety, quality, authenticity and legal requirements. This will be achieved by helping to monitor and maintain the Company and the customer’s quality assurance system requirements, food safety audits and HACCP.
• Supporting the Technical Manager to review, and where relevant, implement and develop new Food Safety & Quality Management systems.
• Support the Technical Manger on site audits
• To ensure the technical compliance of supplier and the allergen integrity of raw materials and finished products.
• To ensure all raw material, packaging and finished product specifications are updated and maintained to ensure compliance with relevant safety and legislative requirements.

Overall responsibility for contribution to the Technical KPI’s, to include:

• Maintain uncompromising Food Safety and Food Quality Standards to Company Policies and

Procedures

• Manage the Milk and Gluten allergen testing for positive release of Raw Materials and Finished Goods with approved external laboratory
• Environmental, Water, micro, chemical, allergen and nutritional sampling
• Carry out routine traceability exercises and coordinate mock recall exercises
• Manage approval process of Brandbank requirements
• Routine equipment calibrations – probes etc
• Carry out internal systems audits
• Provide cover for QA Coordinator
• Deputise for the Technical Manager
• Assisting with the management of traceability, product recall and crisis management procedures
• Assist in the completion of specifications for retail customers.
• Update and maintain the packing specifications for finished products.
• Check, sign off and file all relevant warehouse, production and packing record sheets and report any issues to relevant manager
• Update and maintain the Product Specifications for company products.
• Update and maintain the Supplier Approval spreadsheet.
• Carry out routine Supplier site audits to ensure compliance to SAQ
• Issue Supplier Appraisal Questionnaires and Risk Assessment Questionnaires as required.
• Coordinate the receipt, assessment and filling of the SAQ’s and RAQ’s. Report any issues to

Technical Manager.

• Complete raw material risk assessments
• Assist in TACCP/VACCP assessments
• Assist Product Development Team with approval of proposed new raw material, new suppliers, nutritional calculations.

Our Referral Incentive:

Due to the high amount of interest that we receive for each of our roles unfortunately we cannot respond to each application individually, therefore if you do not hear back from us you have not been shortlisted for this role. Please continue to check our website for any other roles which may be of interest.

We offer a £500 referral if you introduce someone we place – see our website for details – www.rp-ltd.com

We regret that this client is not prepared to sponsor work permit or work permit transfer applications. Candidates must be able to prove their eligibility to work in the UK