Quality Assurance Manager

6 days ago


Newark on Trent, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom Bakkavor Full time
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We are seeking a highly skilled Quality Systems Manager to join our Technical team at our Desserts site in Newark. This is an exciting opportunity to take on a challenging role that will involve managing and developing our quality management system, ensuring compliance with legislation and industry standards.

About the Role
  • Manage and develop the quality management system across the business, ensuring all QMS documentation is relevant, controlled, and meets the requirements of legislation and industry standards.
  • Establish and maintain a process of auditing against the QMS to review compliance.
  • Create and maintain a structured review process of industry, customer, and business codes of practice, presenting action plans to the technical and operations teams to drive continuous improvement and best practice.
  • Manage the internal audit program and ensure actions are communicated and closed out within agreed timescales.
  • Collate all information relating to food standards agency and customer alerts, communicating such issues to the technical management team and responding in a timely manner.
  • Manage the business HACCP teams, coordinating and documenting review meetings while ensuring all amendments and updates are implemented across the appropriate business functions.
  • Manage BRC and Bakkavor pillar audits and communicate as appropriate, ensuring non-conformances are closed out within agreed timescales.
  • Function in a safe working manner and support your team to operate to the same standard.
  • Support the site/business on continuous improvement relating to health, safety, and the environment.
About You

We are looking for a candidate with previous experience of a Quality Management role within a fast-paced food manufacturing or FMCG environment, with extensive knowledge of quality management systems (QMS). Strong MS Excel and number crunching skills are essential, along with a working history of dealing with audits, allergens, and undertaking risk assessments.

You will be competent and confident at producing KPI reports, implementing improvements, and managing customer complaint and non-conformance meetings.

What We Offer
  • Life Assurance (2.5 x salary)
  • Short Term Bonus Scheme up to 10%
  • 33 days holiday
  • Staff Shop
  • Stakeholder Pension Scheme
  • MyBargains Discount Platform
  • Personal Accident Insurance
  • Free Independent Mortgage Advice
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans)
  • Discounted tutoring for children
  • Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Free Carparking

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for our employees to thrive in. We work hard to deliver benefits, rewards, and wellbeing offerings that are important to our employees.

Proud to be Bakkavor

We are proud to be 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 are driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business.

Come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team and be part of our success story.

Find Out More and Apply

We look forward to hearing from you.



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