At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the Quality Assurance team to ensure top-notch food safety and quality standards.
- Company: Join the Samworth Brothers family, a fourth-generation business with a caring culture.
- Benefits: Enjoy enhanced pension, private health scheme, employee discounts, and annual pay reviews.
- Other info: Thrive in an inclusive culture that values collaboration and personal accountability.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in food quality while growing your career in a supportive environment.
- Qualifications: 3+ years in Quality roles, ideally in the food industry, with team leadership experience.
The predicted salary is between 30000 - 40000 £ per year.
Join the Samworth Brothers Team and become part of our dynamic family! At Samworth Brothers, we genuinely care about our colleagues and strive to create an engaging environment that values your unique contributions. We are committed to your success and offer a range of exceptional benefits that we believe supports your life and personal aspirations:
- Enhanced pension scheme
- Private health scheme
- Employee discount scheme
- Experience annual pay reviews
- Profit related pay
- Unlock your potential through training and growth opportunities
The Opportunity
In this role you will assist in supervision and management of the Quality Assurance team, organise tasks and workload of the QA team, audit the production process against the latest legislation, agreed quality and safety standards and compliance with internal procedures and schedules. To ensure that Walkers Deli manufactures world class quality meats and pates and ready to eat products which are safe and compliant with legal, 3rd party and customer requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible for following up and resolving supplier and factory non-conformances, ensuring that non-compliances are investigated and root cause analysis and corrective actions are implemented
- Manage raw material, product and environmental testing ensuring that samples and swabs are checked to an agreed schedule
- Assist the Quality Manager in the daily supervision and management of the Quality Assurance team.
- Carry out absence review meetings, carry out return to work interviews, manage performance, investigations and disciplinary meetings.
- Ensure that regular checks and audits are completed (GMP, traceability, fabrication etc.) in order to monitor compliance with food safety requirements and prepare the necessary reports
- Ensure scales, temperature probes and other measuring devices are calibrated as per required frequency
The Ideal Candidate
We believe that success is built upon collaboration and diverse perspectives. At Samworth Brothers, we welcome candidates who are passionate about working together to achieve greatness. As a valued member of our team, you will bring the following skills and experience:
- Ideally 3 years experience or more in a Quality or Technical role within the food industry; preferably working with raw, added value meats
- Ideally previous experience or strong theoretical knowledge of working to BRC and retail customer standards and trained to an intermediate level in HACCP
- Experience in leading a team of people, with the ability to supervise and coach.
- Computer literate, with working knowledge of Microsoft packages such as Word, Excel and Powerpoint
- Ideally educated to degree level or equivalent, preferably in a Microbiology or Food Science related discipline.
We also want you to thrive in an engaging and inclusive work culture where you will have the opportunity to take on personal accountability and take pride in your work. We encourage positive communication, and the building of strong collaborative relationships is essential to every role. Join us at Samworth Brothers, where you'll be more than just a team member you'll be an integral part of our thriving family. Apply today and embark on an exciting journey with us!
