Quality Manager

Quality Manager

Up to £45,000

Bridgwater

Monday - Friday days based

Join a leading European company in the development, manufacture, and packaging of specialist nutritional products and food ingredients. At Yolk, we are proud to support this business in their search for a talented Quality Manager with a background in food manufacturing. If you’re passionate about maintaining high standards, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and driving continuous improvement, this is the role for you. Take the opportunity to join their management team and propel your career to new heights.

This is what you’ll be doing as Quality Manager:

• Continually review, maintain, and update Quality and Food Safety management systems.
• Provide regular updates on system performance and suitability to the Senior Leadership Team (SLT).
• Advise the SLT on quality control and food safety issues, offering plausible solutions.
• Lead site visits and 3rd party/customer audits, ensuring implementation of corrective actions and driving quality improvement.
• Implement relevant Quality Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and track progress to drive continuous improvement.
• Ensure the Food Safety team is fully qualified and trained according to company requirements.
• Promote customer requirements awareness throughout the company.
• Facilitate external communications and liaison regarding the management systems.
• Develop and maintain a culture that prioritizes quality production and fosters a spirit of continuous improvement.
• Monitor performance across production areas, collaborating with the Production Manager to improve performance based on risk assessment, ingredient testing, product testing, observations, and incidents.
• Implement and maintain programs to ensure compliance with 3rd party industry standards (e.g., BRC, Informed Manufacturer, etc.).
• Lead the HACCP Team and initiatives, including training, advising, and organizing.
• Maintain, monitor, review, and implement Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), HACCP, and Work Instructions to ensure the highest quality products and plant environment.
• Participate in site documentation reviews to ensure compliance.
• Perform risk assessments on new ingredients and update the HACCP register accordingly.
• Lead VACCP and TACCP activities, including research, record keeping, horizon scanning, and internal briefings.
• Stay updated on trends and changes affecting food safety, recommending and implementing procedure and policy changes.
• Lead responses on quality/technical matters for customers, inspectors, and auditors.
• Contribute to internal and system audits, ensuring completion of corrective actions.
• Support new product/customer launches by providing required documentation and ongoing documentation for current customers.
• Mentor and develop the Quality team, assigning and monitoring tasks.

The experience you’ll bring to the team as Quality Manager:

• Experience and awareness of BRC V9 to maintain AA grade.
• Quality Assurance experience within the food industry.
• Degree-level education, preferably in food technology or a scientific field.
• Demonstrated strategic continuous improvement in food safety and Quality.
• HACCP Level 3/4 qualification.
• Supervisory/management expereince
• Ability to influence positive change in the Quality process and culture.
• Excellent communication skills, both internally at SLT level and externally for accreditation.

And this is what you’ll get in return:

• Competitive salary based on experience.
• Pension
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Employee benefits package
• Half day Friday
• Opportunity for future career progression within a growing company.

If you feel you have the skills, experience and passion to be successful in this Quality Manager role apply now

• Please note, whilst we do our best to contact all candidates, due to the high number of applications we receive we cannot guarantee this for every role. If you have not heard anything from us within 7 days of applying - then unfortunately you have been unsuccessful. Please keep an eye on our website for more opportunities.