Job Title: Quality Manager (Food / Poultry Manufacturing)

Location: Preston

Salary: Competitive - Dependent on experience

Job type: Full time, Permanent 

We are excited to be working with a dynamic and rapidly growing family-owned business in Preston to recruit a quality manager. Gafoor is a key player in their sector operating on a national basis, supplying poultry products to leading blue chip manufacturers and retailers.

The company is looking for a quality manager who will take on responsibility for leading a team of quality controllers within our facility. The primary focus of the role will be to ensure that all products achieve the highest standards of food safety and meet a wide range of customer specifications. The quality manager will be hands-on, driving the quality culture across the business and ensure a focus on continuous improvement is maintained.

This role is not open to candidates who require visa sponsorship to work in the UK.

Key Responsibilities:

• Through visible leadership, ensuring that a positive quality culture is encouraged, continuous improvement sustained, and best practices shared
• Contribute ideas for the development, implementation and continuous improvement of all quality systems
• In partnership with the wider team, support the site implementation of all new products, continuous quality improvement projects including the effective execution of line trials and execution of process capability evaluations
• Assist with internal and customer audits and contact with FSA, EA and onsite OVS
• Monitor and update improvement plans for customer complaints and non-conformances
• Provide technical support to QA’s, production & commercial as and when required

About you:

Key attributes and skills:

• Degree in food science or equivalent with experience of HACCP, traceability and general food safety or equivalent on the job experience
• Experience within a BRC food production / manufacturing site within the UK
• Strong communication skills and the assertiveness to challenge others where necessary
• Strong work and team ethic, able to motivate and inspire others
• Excellent attention to detail and the ability to juggle multiple priorities at any one time
• Excellent I.T skills including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Auditing skills
• Analytical problem-solving skills

Additional Information:

When applying applicants should provide a covering letter detailing their salary expectations, availability to commence work and domestic current location.

Please note that the company are not offering sponsorship opportunities, therefore candidates must have the legal right to live and work in the UK to apply for this role.

If you are seeking the chance to join a well-established company at an exciting stage in their growth, please click the APPLY button to send your CV in for immediate consideration.

Candidates with experience or relevant job titles of; Quality Manager, Quality Assurance Manager, Quality Assurance, Manufacturing Quality Manager, Food Safety Manager, Quality Improvement Manager, Quality Assurance Lead, Quality Auditor, may also be considered for this role.