Site Quality Manager

Site Quality Manager

Refresco, Bridgwater, Somerset (just off J23 of the M5)

Competitive salary and benefits, annual bonus and company pension scheme

Refresco the world’s largest independent soft drinks manufacturer seeks a dynamic, energetic Site Quality Managerfor our huge soft drinks factory at Bridgwater, Somerset (just off J23 of the M5). This is an exciting time to join the Bridgwater team as the site is currently undergoing serious investment in our people, engineering capability, infrastructure and product development. In this role you will be part of the site leadership team, reporting to the General Manager, leading the site quality team, making a significant contribution to taking the site forward, driving forward the quailty agenda, leading new product implementations improvements, and maintaining and improving audit results.

Refresco is always growing, always innovating, always changing, it isn’t for everyone, but it is for you if you are passionate about what you do, take ownership, enjoy responsibility and a dynamic team working environment.

About the Role

You will be accountable for implementation of our quality agenda at Bridgwater, complying with legal, group and customer requirements and working closely with the site team to ensure that all aspects are performed in line with standards.

Here are some of your key responsibilities:

• Ensure the site is safe, legally compliant, meeting all internal and external standards including delivering excellent audit results from a food safety perspective
• Lead your site quality team, developing, coaching, empowering
• Leading the site quality agenda on the site and engaging the all colleagues on the site in quality, increasing their knowledge of processes and best practice
• Building great relationships with external customer food technical and quality teams
• Ensure due diligence can be demonstrated to satisfy the requirements of external agencies
• Reporting internal Refresco KPIs to the site management team
• Leading the product/packaging implementation technologists and operational teams to ensure that the launch and trial of new products is completed in a timely manner, meeting food safety, legal and customer requirements and that process changes are evaluated, risk assessed, validated and documented.

About You

If you match this profile we would like to hear from you:

• You will need experience of leading a quality team with a clear vision, coaching and empowering your team
• You will need FMCG industry sector experience preferably in food and / or drink
• A degree in a Science or Food Technology is preferred or 5+ years industry experience in a similar technical/quality role
• You will need to be fully familiar with modern manufacturing methodologies, and show that you have delivered new product implementations and have a successful internal / external customer audit record
• You will have experience and feel comfortable in a fast moving, fast changing 24/7 manufacturing environment with many SKU’s, new product implententations and new automated engineering equipment

At Refresco we really believe that our values have helped and will continue to help us be successful. Our values are - agile, excellence, responsible, passionate and entrepreneurship - open this link for more details - https://www.refresco.com/en/about-us/our-values

About Refresco

Our drinks on every table. That’s the Refresco vision. We’re passionate about producing tasty, refreshing drinks and we’re thirsty for more and growing fast. We’re a global business and invested £1.25 billion in expanding our manufacturing footprint to make us the largest independent bottler of soft drinks and fruit juices in the world. We currently produce 14 billion litres from over 78 manufacturing plants in Europe, North America and Australia and we’re only just getting started…

Our UK Business has six manufacturing plants providing a great place to work for 1800 employees producing private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers including Tesco, ASDA, Morrison’s, Sainsbury’s, ALDI and Lidl. We also manufacture for branded customers such as Monster, Lucozade, Ocean Spray, Weetabix, Del Monte and Um Bongo. Whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards but they get where they need to be when they need to get there to meet the needs of our high profile customers.

Refresco are an equal opportunities employer.