Quality Assurance Manager

Are you an experienced Quality Manager or Food Safety professional looking for your next career move? We have brilliant opportunity for a Quality Manager to join us at our Tutbury Factory and play an essential role in our production and manufacturing operations! Manufacturing in Nestlé is one of the most vital cogs in ensuring our consumers receives a perfect quality product, at the right time and place whilst driving losses from our business to maximise efficiency & productivity. By following company policies, standards, norms and applicable legal regulations, you will act as the guardian of food safety and compliance in the site. You will have the freedom in your role to challenge all other functions in the pursuit of zero defect as the essential base for maintaining consumer trust and preference. You will promote a Quality culture across the factory teams. A day in the life of a Quality Manager

• Reporting directly to the Factory Manager, your overall responsibility will be to ensure that quality, compliance, food safety and hygiene standards are maintained and promoted within the site.
• You will manage a quality team of up to 10 direct reports and a wider team of 20. You will lead them to enable production and its supporting functions to maintain a stable process by carrying out process capability deployments and defining the controls and practices that ensure a reliable product and process.
• You will ensure adherence to product quality standards and good manufacturing practices including the correct implementation and supervision of the factory pest management programme.
• Manage the internal auditing programme, assessing the performance of the quality system and reporting its effectiveness to management while proposing actions for improvement. It will be your responsibility to ensure that corrective action from these audits is closed out within agreed timescales.
  
  Ideally, you will be coming to us with proven experience of quality assurance gained within a food manufacturing/production background. A strong background of line management will also be key for success in this role.
Other key credentials we will be looking for:
• QA Auditing experience.
• Microbiological knowledge along with food technology and hygiene experience.
• Experience of new products introduction.
• Knowledge of continuous improvement tools and principles.
• Proven record in managing quality assurance systems, including related ISO standards.
  
  Salary: In the region of £55,000- £65,000 depending on experience + 17% car allowance + potential bonus + generous pension scheme + 12 flexible days on top of 25-day holiday entitlement + 2 paid volunteering days + other fantastic benefits!
Championing diversity and inclusion is so important to us; when we embrace different perspectives and give everyone the chance to be the best they can be, we can think in new, creative ways that grow and enhance our business. At Nestlé we are proud to support and provide equality of opportunity that supports employees to effectively blend their work life and commitments through hybrid and flexible working arrangements, so speak to us to understand what this could look like for you., What can we offer in return? Great benefits you'd expect from a business the size of Nestlé - in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus statutory holidays plus flex leave, pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth.