Senior Quality Manager in Warrington

We are seeking a Senior Quality Manager to lead, oversee and continually enhance our Quality functions. This is a senior level role responsible for driving Quality performance across the business, championing continuous improvement, and embedding robust quality processes throughout manufacturing operations. This role will have 3 direct reports and 20 indirect reports.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leading and developing the Quality Team, providing coaching, mentoring and support to ensure high performance and capability across QA and QC functions.
• Driving continuous improvement of quality processes, systems, and tools, ensuring alignment with applicable standards such as ISO 9001 - FSSC 22000.
• Overseeing the Integrated Management System, ensuring changes are communicated and embedded across relevant stakeholders.
• Managing quality inspection activity, ensuring accurate and timely reporting to internal and external stakeholders.
• Investigating Customer Complaints and NCRs, identifying root causes and ensuring corrective actions are implemented to prevent recurrence.
• Leading internal audit programmes and participating in third-party and customer audits.
• Conducting risk-based assessments (e.g., FMEA) to identify and mitigate potential process failures.
• Analysing Quality performance data, identifying trends, and recommending improvement actions.
• Promoting collaboration, open communication and best practice sharing across the organisation.
• Ensuring robust corrective actions (RCA) are implemented, providing quality management training and support across the organisation.
• Forming close working relationships with local and regional OPEX teams, regional Quality teams to ensure corporate systems and processes are embedded into daily work.

What makes you great:

• Strong background in a manufacturing environment ideally from a Plastics, Food or Pharmaceutical background – this is essential and central to the role with a blend of Quality Assurance and Quality Control experience.
• Proven leadership capability, including team management, coaching and mentoring.
• Experience managing and improving Quality Management Systems.
• Experience in root-cause analysis, lean manufacturing tools, internal audits, and risk-based quality methodologies (e.g., FMEA).
• Degree Qualified in either a Science, Quality Management, or technical related degree.
• Ideally you will hold or are working towards a lean six sigma qualification.

What you can expect working with us:

• Up to £75,000 dependant on experience.
• Benefits package; Generous pension contributions, Bonus, Life Assurance, Employee Christmas vouchers, PerkBox – High Street brand discounts, Long service awards, Subsidised onsite canteen.

At ALPLA, we stand for high-quality plastic packaging throughout the world. Around 22,000 colleagues produce quality packaging for foodstuffs, cosmetics and industrial cleaning brands for many blue-chip clients across 182 ALPLA sites in 45 countries.

Our new perk box offering a wealth of benefits such as money off purchases such as food, drink, cinema tickets, clothing, and homeware and so much more. A number of freebies across the perk box site, such as free coffees. Online access to free exercise and yoga classes with 24/7 access to qualified therapists.