Quality Assurance Manager

Quality Assurance Manager
Near Dorchester
Food manufacturing
£Competitive
Day based
 
My Client an award winning food manufacturer based in the Dorchester area, is looking to recruit a Quality Assurance Manager / Quality manager - Reporting into the site Technical manager  the successful candidates main remit will be to be responsible for leading and motivating the Quality Assurance team in monitoring and evaluating product and processing systems. Main accountabilities will include understanding and applying relevant standards so that company, customer and legal requirements are achieved and maintained.
 
The Quality Assurance Manager / QA Manager role will include:
·Understanding and applying relevant standards & codes of practice so that business, 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.
·Driving quality standards across the factory, maintaining a culture of high performance and compliance.
·Understanding, implementing and reviewing documented quality management systems to enable production of the agreed safety and quality standards.
·Supporting operations with compilation and document control of operational procedures and oversee the completion and retrieval to maintain traceability.
·Manage and respond to internal and external complaints identifying route cause
·Supporting the Technical Manager & business with management of audits, hosting audits as appropriate. Manages response & close out of non-conformance reports from audits as required.
·Lead, motivate and manage the training & development requirements of the QA team and ensuring that direct reports are properly equipped to undertake their roles and achieves personal development and continuous improvement.
·Manage the lab portal to ensure testing suites are up to date and results are analysed, and leading route cause investigation with appropriate operational and hygiene teams as required and verifying corrective actions taken.
·Generate technical business KPI information, communicate, trend and highlight issues. Develop and agree action plans and through Continuous Improvement drive the business forward.
 
Quality Assurance Manager / QA Manager Skills / Experience Required
·Previous Quality Management experience in the Food Industry
·HACCP
·Good communicator and people person
 
This role may suit a person that has previously worked in a QA, QC, Quality Assurance, QSM, Compliance role.  This role is commutable from Weymouth, Dorchester, Yeovil, Blandford, Poole