Quality Manager in Ripon

Are you an experienced Quality Manager with a passion for ensuring excellence in production? Refresco UK, a leading manufacturer of soft drinks, is looking for a dynamic and detail-oriented Quality Manager to join our team. In this key role, you will oversee and maintain the highest quality standards, ensuring the consistency and safety of our products. You will lead a dedicated team, implement quality control processes, and collaborate with various departments to continuously improve production efficiency.

Key responsibilities:

• Be accountable for factory implementation of Refresco UK’s Quality Management agenda, complying with legal, group, and customer requirements.
• Actively participate as part of Bridgwater’s technical team in the setting and improvement of the site Quality Management agenda and standards.
• Ensure due diligence can be demonstrated to satisfy the requirements of external agencies.
• Responsible for timely and accurate reporting of internal Refresco KPIs to the site management team.
• Ensure GMP and Hygiene standards are communicated to the operational teams and processes are in place to effectively monitor and manage them.
• Partake in site visits and 3rd party/customer audits.
• Ensure that corrective actions are implemented and drive quality improvement.
• React in a timely way to day-to-day quality/technical matters that arise, facilitating the determination of root cause, implementation of corrective action.
• Work closely with product/packaging implementation technologists and operational teams to ensure the launch and trial of new products is completed promptly meeting food safety, legal and customer requirements.
• Evaluate, risk assess, validate and document process changes.
• Facilitate the development of factory quality technicians to support the above roles as required and create a succession plan to increase skills and flexibility throughout the site team.
• Proactively build relationships with Customer Technical Managers, ensuring effective communication internally and externally.
• Control the Quality Team expenditure against agreed budget.
• Ensure internal audits are completed to schedule, root cause determined and corrective action implemented to drive quality improvement.
• Lead the product/packaging implementation technologists and operational teams to ensure the launch and trial of new products is completed in a timely manner.
• Lead the site Laboratory Services team to ensure all materials and products are analysed to schedule and relevant certification is retained.
• Lead the development of the team to support the above roles as required and create a succession plan to increase skills and flexibility throughout the standards team.

About You:

By nature, you are organised and persistent, able to lead a small team as well as achieve the desired results by effectively influencing larger teams. You will have a degree in Science or Food Technology or 5+ years’ industry experience in a technical or quality-based role and be fully conversant with modern manufacturing methodologies, along with demonstrable operational experience, ideally within an FMCG environment. Bottling/beverage manufacturing experience preferred.

About Refresco:

Our drinks on every table. That’s the Refresco vision. We’re a global business and currently produce 12 billion litres of soft drinks from 64 manufacturing plants in 12 countries. Our UK business provides a great place to work for over 1,800 employees, who produce private-label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers.

If you require any additional support or adjustments to help you make an application or you have any questions, please email us and one of the team will be happy to help. Refresco is an equal opportunity employer. We are fully committed to diversity and inclusion.