Quality Assurance Manager in Leicester

Working Pattern: Monday–Friday, 5 over 7, 40 hours per week

Location: Leicestershire

The role requires a Quality Manager to monitor processes and products against site procedures through auditing and supporting interdepartmental teams with the purpose of maintaining the company’s due diligence defence and ensure food safety, product integrity and quality of all products in line with legal compliance and 3rd party standards.

The main responsibilities include:

• Ensure systems are in place to capture site specific QMS documentation and is audit ready.
• Ensure all documentation is available to operations and trained out against a defined training matrix.
• Conduct traceability exercises to confirm all information is captured to ensure due diligence, integrity, product control.
• Schedule finished product assessments to verify shelf life and report Out of specification products.
• Conduct investigations to identify cause, corrective actions and verification of corrective actions taken against all out of specification products and procedures.
• Attend NPD meetings to capture all up and coming products ensuring that all paperwork including Quality Attribute sheets are available for launch and attend the pre-production trials and first launch runs of all new products to confirm consistency of performance.
• Lead member of the HACCP team, organizing review meetings and updating the HACCP plan with any amendments to legal compliance or system changes.
• Ensure systems are being maintained to be audit ready for all laboratory results, and that all non-conforming results are investigated, corrective actions implemented, and control confirmed for all environmental fails.
• Ensure non conformances raised in line with procedures are input onto the correct systems, communicated, investigated and closed out. Liaising with other departments to achieve this in a timely manner.
• Confirm relevant weight control checks are completed and audited to ensure all products produced are legally complying with the Weights and Measures Act 1985.
• To sign off any equipment or area where engineering/maintenance work has been carried out, ensuring it is free from any source of contamination before production recommences.
• Ensure any out of specification results are communicated and discussed with the Technical Manager to confirm actions to be taken and re-tests carried out in accordance with the company procedure.
• Be the CCP champions for the business and ensure all QA’s are able to correctly train staff and have the knowledge to upskill production within this remit.
• Schedule the PQE assessments and ensure QAS are available to the production teams, communicating any amendments identified as required.
• Ensure allergen controls are in place and not compromised. Schedule and assist in the routine allergen validations in line with company procedures.
• Schedule the auditing workload of the QA’s in line with the Internal Auditing procedure ensuring that all areas including, GMP, Glass and Hard Plastic and fabrication auditing is conducted, communicated and corrective actions implemented within the given timelines.
• Conduct adhoc GMP and Hygiene audits as instructed by the Technical Director to ensure site standards are being adhered to at all times.
• Lead on all CCP and weights and measures training. Conducting verification exercises on both production staff and QA.

About Us: At Geary’s Bakeries, we’re on a crusade to make proper bread more accessible to more people. We’re passionate about re-imagining the way Great Britain thinks about their everyday loaf. This passion is at the heart of everything we do, and have done, since 1906.

We are ‘born and bread’ in Leicestershire and proud of our long-standing heritage. Today, we operate from three sites on a 24/7 operation. We’re made up of towards 900 people: a friendly, diverse and outgoing team, passionate about making a difference to the bakery industry.

The business has grown rapidly from £5m in annual sales to £125m+ in the last 15 years with strong and consistent profitability. We have an ambition to increase sales to more than £200m+ in the next 3-5 years. A clear vision and strategy has been articulated, and this is being backed with major capital investment and a renewal and upgrading of the people, processes, and systems.

Our brilliant benefits include free delicious bread, BUPA Cashback Plan, Death In Service, a Cycle to Work scheme and a chance to win a £10k worth prizes annually! Plus, if you refer a friend to join our team, you could earn up to £500!

About You: At Geary’s, we look for people who show up every day to do their best. We’re a passionate, friendly team and look for the same qualities in our new recruits. We firmly believe your attitude and approach is just as important (if not, more so) than the skills and experience on your CV.

What we’re looking for:

• HACCP Level 4
• Food Hygiene Level 3
• A good level of knowledge of a Quality Auditing function (3 years working experience in food industry)
• BRCGS certification (or equivalent) in Internal Auditing, Risk Assessment, Verification and Validation as a minimum.
• A minimum of 3 years retailer standard requirements experience.
• Experience within a manufacturing environment, although bakery is preferred it is not essential as full training will be given.
• Good communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Task orientated.
• Decision making skills.

All applicants must have the right to work in the UK, at point of interview, and for the tenure of employment contract. As part of the recruitment process, you will be asked to provide documented evidence of your eligibility to work in the UK.

If you have not heard from us within seven days, unfortunately you have not been successful on this occasion, but we wish you every success in your search for a new position.

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