About the Role
The Senior QA Manager is responsible for ensuring that all food production adheres to safety, regulatory, and customer requirements. Leading a team of Shift Technologists and QAs, this role is hands-on and emphasises compliance, conducting audits, and driving continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
• Leading and developing your team of Shift Technologists and Quality Controllers, working to ensure all food is produced to the agreed standards and specifications
• Ensuring all food safety and hygiene standards are always adhered to, and that all colleagues are aware of their responsibilities
• Maintaining a robust system for documentation, from incoming materials through to finished product
• Investigating and incidents and non-conformance and putting corrective actions in place
• Being a key contact for customer and BRC audits
About You
This role is ideal for a detail-oriented quality professional with strong leadership skills and a background in food production quality assurance.
Key Skills
• Prior experience of leading a technical/quality team in a manufacturing environment
• Advanced Food Safety and Intermediate HACCP qualifications
• Proactive and highly organised, able to prioritise a busy workload in a fast-paced environment
• Good communications skills, able to work well with colleagues at all levels
Benefits
• 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays)
• Company pension scheme
• Company sick pay – after qualifying period
• Free onsite parking
• Exclusive employee discount platform available via an app offering savings of up to 60% with brands including Asda, Morrisons, Marks and Spencer and Tesco.
• Employee assistance programme.
• Wisdom wellbeing app
• Grocery Aid – employees access to counselling
Our Referral Incentive:
Due to the high amount of interest that we receive for each of our roles unfortunately we cannot respond to each application individually, therefore if you do not hear back from us you have not been shortlisted for this role. Please continue to check our website for any other roles which may be of interest.
We offer a £500 referral if you introduce someone we place – see our website for details