Quality Systems Manager

at  Bakkavor

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.

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.

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.