Quality Manager

We are currently recruiting for a full time, permanent, Quality Manager to join the team on site in Bicester, reporting to the Technical Manager, Fresh Manufacturing.

As the Quality Manager it is your responsibility to oversee the technical management of our Fresh Kitchen and M&J businesses at our Bicester site. Ensuring their compliance with food safety, quality, hygiene and legal requirements through implementation, monitoring, and audits of Quality Management Systems (QMS). You will ensure due diligence systems (QMS) are continuously improved and enforced through audits, providing technical support and advice to the site, whilst delivering a consistent approach to systems implementation. You will also be responsible for Supplier Quality management to ensure food safety, quality and legal compliance to supplier approval, raw material approval and product setup and the effective quality management of materials delivered from suppliers.

You will support management of the sites MSC / ASC and BRCGS certification standards and procedures, ensuring continuous adherence to all required standards and ensure site standards are always maintained, including that of quality, GMP, hygiene, pest control. You will also conduct raw material intake checks to ensure that materials and products supplied to site meet agreed specifications' traceability and labelling and coordinate samples for internal panels, external assessment (analytical and microbiological), collation & interpretation of results, trend / analysis of data where applicable, with subsequent remedial actions where necessary.

To be successful in this role you will have a relevant degree or equivalent professional experience in food science, technology or quality management. Ideally you will be Food Safety and HACCP Level 3 certified and hold appropriate auditing qualifications and have knowledge of relevant food safety legislation, QMS, BRCGS/GFSI standards and audits. Demonstrable seafood & high risk product knowledge (including food safety and quality requirements) would be advantageous.

It is key to have excellent communication skills as you will be customer focused and be well organised and use effective project management skills. You will show tenacity and a desire to follow things through to completion, with strong planning and organisational skills, and a high attention to detail.