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Head of Operational Quality & Implementation
This is an exciting opportunity to join Refresco UK in a senior quality leadership role where you will drive the operational quality and food safety agenda across our UK manufacturing network, ensuring consistent standards, continuous improvement, and a strong quality culture across all sites.
Head of Operational Quality and Implementation
Permanent
Refresco Kegworth / UK Multi-Site
What's in it for you?
- Annual bonus and regular pay reviews
- Car allowance
- An enhanced pension contribution
- Private healthcare up to family level
- Early Friday finish to kick-start your weekend
- 28 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
- Option to purchase additional leave, increasing your allowance to 31 days plus bank holidays
- Life assurance coverage
- Income protection
- 24/7 virtual GP access for you and your family
- Free eye-care vouchers and discounted glasses
- Employee referral scheme with bonuses for successful referrals
- GroceryAid support services offering financial, legal, wellbeing and practical guidance
- Cheers benefits platform providing discounts, free perks, and wellbeing tools
About The Role
As Head of Operational Quality, you will lead the implementation of Refresco UK's Quality and Food Safety strategy across all manufacturing sites, ensuring operational quality programmes consistently meet internal, customer, regulatory and GFSI requirements.
Reporting to the QESH Director, you will work closely with site quality and operational teams to drive a 'One Team' approach, strengthening collaboration, capability and quality culture across the business. You will play a key role in supporting operational excellence by improving quality performance, reducing the cost of poor quality and ensuring best practice is embedded throughout the UK network.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Drive the operational quality implementation strategy across all UK manufacturing sites.
- Ensure Quality and Food Safety programmes consistently meet food safety, legality and customer requirements.
- Develop and promote a 'One Team' quality culture across site and central quality teams.
- Build strong working relationships with operational leadership teams to embed quality ownership throughout the business.
- Coach, mentor and develop operational quality teams to enhance technical capability and performance.
- Develop practical processes, tools and training programmes that support continuous quality improvement. xsabvtc
- Ensure robust site quality plans are maintained and that verification activities are appropriately resourced and executed.
- Develop a
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Head of Operational Quality & Implementation in Derby employer: Refresco Drinks UK
Refresco UK is an exceptional employer that fosters a dynamic work culture where innovation and collaboration thrive. With a strong commitment to employee development, we offer numerous growth opportunities and a supportive environment that encourages you to make a meaningful impact on product quality and operational excellence. Located in a fast-paced manufacturing setting, our team enjoys the unique advantage of working at the forefront of sustainability and engineering advancements.
