Quality Systems Manager

Quality Systems Manager
 

We rise to challenges together.

Location: Newark Desserts, NG24 2ER
Contract Type: Perm
Business Area: Desserts 
Shift: Monday to Friday – 8.30am to 5.00pm
Salary: £36,000-£40,000 depending on experience

Why join us?   

We’re ready for anything. We thrive on challenge and change. The undeniable pressure and pace of our 24/7 operation keeps us on our toes and offers a variety of career pathways and options to explore and pursue. We encourage everyone to work hard, push further and show resilience. And it’s exciting. Because only by mentoring and role modelling our success and innovation, will we continue to diversify, grow as individuals, and succeed together.

What we do.  

We're the biggest name you've never heard of. You've probably eaten our food - you just didn't realise it. We make innovative fresh products, with around 18,500 colleagues working across the UK, US and China. We’re the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers (including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose). We’re ambitious. We’re full of ideas. And we’re ready for more people who share our values and passion for quality to join us. 

This particular role is based at our Bakkavor Desserts site in Newark, Nottinghamshire and specialises in making chilled desserts such as trifles, creamcakes and choux pastries. The site employs over 1,900 people and is one of eight Manufacturing sites that are part of the Bakkavor Bakery sector in the UK.

About the role.

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Quality Systems Manager to join our Technical team at our Desserts site in Newark.

In this busy and exciting role, you will undertake responsibility for all technical systems, internal audits, legislation and customer requirements.

Accountabilities

• To manage and develop the quality management system across the business, ensuring all the QMS documentation is relevant, controlled and meets the requirements of legislation and industry standards.
• Establishing and maintaining a process of auditing against the QMS to review compliance.
• To create and maintain a structured review process of industry, customer and business codes of practice – presenting action plans to the technical & operations teams, to drive continuous improvement and best practice.
• Managing the internal audit programme and ensuring actions are communicated and closed out within agreed timescales.
• Collating all information relating to food standards agency and customer alerts – communicating such issues to the technical management team and responding in a timely manner.
• Managing the business HACCP teams – coordinating and documenting review meetings whilst ensuring all amends / updates are implemented across the appropriate business functions.
• Managing BRC and Bakkavor pillar audits and communicating as appropriate - ensuring non-conformances are closed out within agreed timescales.
• Functioning in a safe working manner and supporting your team to operate to the same standard.
• Supporting the site / business on continuous improvement relating to health, safety and the environment.

About you

Ideally, you will have previous experience of a Quality Management role within a fast-paced food manufacturing or FMCG environment – with extensive knowledge of quality management systems (QMS).

Strong MS excel and number crunching skills are essential, along with a working history of dealing with audits, allergens and undertaking risk assessments.

You will be competent and confident at producing KPI reports, implementing improvements and managing customer complaint and non-conformance meetings.

If you have a passion for quality assurance and outstanding service delivery – this could be the perfect role for you.
 

What you’ll receive.  
  

As an equal opportunity employer, we’re committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.   

You’ll enjoy:  
 

• Life Assurance (2.5 x salary)
• Short Term Bonus Scheme up to 10% 
• 33 days holiday
• Staff Shop
• Stakeholder Pension Scheme
• MyBargains Discount Platform
• Personal Accident Insurance
• Free Independent Mortgage Advice
• Employee Assistance Programme
• A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans)
• Discounted tutoring for children
• Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary
• Private Medical Insurance
• Free Carparking

Proud to be Bakkavor.  
  

We’re proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We’re proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose. We’re driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business – come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!  

Find out more and apply.  

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