Senior Quality Assurance Manager

5 days ago


Wednesbury, Sandwell, United Kingdom Avara Foods Full time

Avara Foods is a leading food business in the UK, supplying chicken and turkey to major supermarkets and well-known restaurants. We own and manage our entire supply chain, from farms to factory and all the way to the customer door, offering a range of functions.

Our Advanced Manufacturing Site

We have invested £4.7 million in state-of-the-art facilities at our Wednesbury site in the West Midlands. This site is a flagship Added Value centre for Avara, employing over 150 talented individuals who help supply some of the UK's largest supermarkets and popular restaurants.

Quality Management Role

We are looking for a highly competent and motivated Lead Quality Manager to join our Quality Team at our Wednesbury site. The role is predominantly office-based, with some time spent in a fast-paced, dynamic FMCG environment.

Key Responsibilities
  • Manage the site Technical function to ensure legal compliance, food safety, and adherence to customer specifications.
  • Ensure Quality Managers are effectively recruited, inducted, trained, and managed.
  • Provide Operations with Technical monitoring and auditing to ensure customer requirements are understood and achieved.
  • Review frequency of non-conformances to identify longer-term corrective action plans.
  • Review specifications for all products, packaging, and ingredients to ensure they are current and meet customer specifications.
  • Investigate customer complaints of a technical nature and ensure findings and action plans are completed and communicated both internally and externally.
  • Provide an effective link between NPD and production to ensure new or changed products, processes, and packaging are effectively introduced.
Requirements
  • FdSc Food Technology or equivalent.
  • Advanced Food Safety Level 4 and Advanced HACCP Level 4.
  • Ability to communicate verbally and in writing at all levels.
Benefits
  • A secure, supportive, and progressive working environment.
  • Comprehensive training and continuous development opportunities.
  • 31 days holiday allowance.
  • Secure contract with long-term career development opportunities.
  • Straightforward pension contribution of 6%.
  • Life assurance scheme.
  • Staff sales at hugely discounted prices.
  • Cycle to work scheme.
  • Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme.
  • Access to our Employee Benefit Scheme, which includes unlimited remote GP appointments and unlimited mental health sessions, physiotherapy sessions, medical second opinion consultation, and other discounts and perks.


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