Quality Manager
| Posting date: | 23 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £40,000 to £42,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 July 2025 |
| Location: | ex14 |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Manucomm Recruitment |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | JO0000001482-6971 |
Summary
Quality Manager
Honiton
£ UP TO 42,000 DOE
My Client is a fast growing Food manufacturer who is now seeking a Quality Manager / Junior Technical Manager to join their team. Reporting into the Senior Management team, you will be an integral part of a medium-size, quickly growing company, taking the lead in all technical matters, and liaising across all departments to ensure excellent food safety standards are maintained, promoted, and further developed. You will ideally be seeking a role that will allow you to grow and develop as the company does.
The successful candidate will act as a key member of the operational leadership team, expected to support the Operations Director in their role where appropriate.
This is a hands-on role requiring daily presence in the factory and in the warehouse areas to oversee quality, technical, and compliance activities and be actively involved in daily decision making.
Quality Manager / Junior Technical Manager Key responsibilities:
·Ensure compliance with all site requirements including BRCGS Global standards, customer audits and BRCGS accreditation audit requirements
·Manage the company's complaint system e.g., responding, recording, and trending
·Develop and maintain the QMS and HACCP, TACCP & VACCP as team lead
·Managing company product specifications, including customers online portals
·Liaise with colleagues, Heads of Departments and Directors to maintain and develop B Corp certification
·To ensure that the standards of food safety, legality and quality defined within the Quality Management System are understood and implemented across site
·Managing any non-conformances or risks to the product, ensuring appropriate action is taken to close out and implement preventative actions
·Assist with NPD requirements; e.g., artwork proofing, shelf-life determination, and HACCP risk assessments
·Actively and effectively manage and promote a food safety culture within the site ensuring all health and safety requirements are met, regularly reviewed and action plans developed and implemented.
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Key Skills:
·Ideally trained to a degree level in a food science discipline
·Must understand BRCGS Food Safety Issue 9 (August 2022)
·You will be Food Safety and HACCP Level 3 qualified plus ideally Lead Auditor
·You will be able to demonstrate working knowledge of raw material & packaging specifications, factory technical management, retail customer requirements, hosting food safety audits, BRCGS, QMS and HACCP
If the role is of interest, then please send your CV today.
This role would suit candidates who have previously worked in roles such as Technical Administrator, Technical Officer, QMS manager, Quality Systems Manager, Supplier Assurance Manager, QA Supervisor, QA Manager