Group Food Chemistry Quality Manager

This is a home-based role with regular travel required across the UK to our Eurofins sites. Working hours are Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm.

This role is responsible for adherence to the quality systems and the requirement of all accreditation statuses for the relevant laboratories. You will inspire and drive a culture of outstanding quality to exceed the requirements of our customers and embrace our core organisational values.

• Responsible for the maintenance of UKAS accreditation (and other accreditations where appropriate) in Eurofins UK Food Chemistry laboratories.
• Ensure that the requirements of UKAS, business and customers are met within the scope of the accredited laboratory.
• Act as a key contact for UKAS on all matters of accreditation.
• Attend external audits by UKAS, other regulatory bodies and customers and ensure that corrective actions are completed and submitted to the relevant body within the timescale required.
• Ensure that the Quality procedures and documents, including laboratory methods are maintained up to date.
• Work closely with the Group Food Chemistry Technical Development Manager.
• Responsible for the annual Quality Management Reviews in the relevant sections.
• Train laboratory staff in ISO: 17025, auditing, non-conforming work investigations and root cause analysis, where applicable.
• Assist the Director of Technical and Quality in developing and driving Quality improvement plans across laboratories to ensure consistent approach and best practice.
• Assess data and trends as required to instigate improvements through development of Quality KPI dashboards.
• Delivery of continuous improvement in laboratory processes, customer service, Quality, health and safety.
• Assess key operational risks and take action to mitigate them.
• Build relationships with laboratory staff; engage laboratory staff in the purpose, their responsibilities and use of the Quality system.
• Attendance at Monthly Quality KPI Meetings for each site.
• Development of internal Quality Control schemes to meet the needs of the business.
• Management of the local Quality teams.
• Work closely with the Group Quality Managers of other departments to ensure that all aspects of the Quality system are maintained.

Qualifications:

• Educated to degree level in Chemistry/Microbiology or related discipline and relevant experience of Quality Management systems.
• Excellent working knowledge of Microbiology/Chemistry laboratories accredited to ISO: 17025, RSA where applicable.
• Proven experience of working in a UKAS accredited laboratory.
• Proven experience of people-management.
• Computer literate.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Good auditing skills.
• Must have a ‘can do’ attitude and be able to deliver change through people management skills.

Additional Information:

At Eurofins we are growing, innovating and always learning. We celebrate the achievements of our employees through annual long service awards, recognise our colleagues' special life events, and we are committed to charitable causes through global fundraising activities.

As a Eurofins Employee You Will Benefit From:

• Enhanced Annual Leave Entitlement
• Additional Annual Leave Purchase scheme
• Annual Leave Sellback Scheme
• Additional Annual Leave at Employees set service dates
• Company Pension Plan
• Life Assurance Scheme (4 times annual salary)
• Healthcare Cash Plan (6+ months service)
• Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Paternity Schemes
• Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 confidential Health and Wellbeing Programmes
• Free parking
• Worldwide career opportunities

What Happens Next:

Our people are the backbone of what we do, so it’s incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit you’ll be invited to meet the team in the form of an assessment centre or a staged interview process dependent on the role and its requirements, this will give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get to know your key skills and strengths.

Your data:

As part of any recruitment process, the company collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The company is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.

Closing Date:

We reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore we would urge candidates to submit an application as early as possible. Due to the high volume of applications we receive please be aware that if you do not receive a response within 4 weeks of the vacancy expiry date, unfortunately, on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.

We support your development! Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

We embrace diversity! Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Sustainability matters to us! We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us achieve this goal!