QUALITY TEAM LEADER | SALARY OF £29,725 | DAYS ONLY | CHICHESTER

We’re looking for an experienced Quality Team Leader to join our team at our Merston site in Chichester. In this role, you’ll be the driving force behind food safety, legal compliance, and product quality standards, ensuring our products are the very best in fresh food manufacturing.
You’ll work closely with colleagues, customers, and suppliers at all levels to deliver safe, high-quality products every time. With a focus on leadership, problem-solving, and continuous improvement, you’ll have the freedom to make your mark and help shape our reputation as the best at fresh.

REQUIREMENTS

• QA or similar experience working within the food industry, ideally experience in short shelf-life products
• Food safety Level 2

• Developing and coaching a high performing team with full appraisal and reviewing responsibility.
• Ensure technical food safety, quality standards and customer COP’s are implemented and adhered to in the factory
• Non-conformance management and investigation, including Root Cause Analysis
• EPW/Trace exercises and investigation
• Providing and developing KPI and performance reporting
• Management and preparation for Customer audits
• Management of invoicing and site budget reconciliation
• Maintains Factory technical and quality standards / KPIs
• Management of internal audits and QA systems
• Validation and verification of new and current processes
• Management and reporting of site DQA
• Customer Complaint Investigation
• Create reports and analysis of data to report internally and to customers
• Lead teams and initiatives to deliver performance improvement
• Management of pest control
• Control, management and calibration of Equipment