QA Supervisor Technical Lead

Location: Plymouth

Job type: Permanent

Job summary

At Europe Snacks Ltd, we aim to be a great place to work, we do this by ensuring our values of Entrepreneurship, Excellence and Care are at the heart of everything we do.

  • To be actively involved setting standards, coaching and advising where necessary.
  • To support the Quality team and drive forwards departmental objective and performance targets.
  • Ensure through doing or delegating that all functions of the team are delivered on daily/weekly/monthly tasks
  • To create and train out SOP’s, manuals, core procedures and other defined standards
  • To have a flexible approach to work to meet the changing demands of the business.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

  • Integrate with all shifts ensuring employees understand and adhere to best practice
  • Make sure all staff behave safely, and you lead by example
  • To coach and mentor QA and QC staff to drive standards forwards
  • To educate and promote food safety and technical standards across the operational teams and coach best practice.
  • Competently liaise with customers and auditors as required.
  • Support all external visits to site.

Quality

  • Maintaining all site food safety controls and the due diligence required to demonstrate them.
  • Auditing against the defined internal audit schedule and closing out of non-conformances.
  • Knowledge and adherence to customer specific QAS including driving adherence of site to standards

Cost Optimisation

  • Take positive corrective action if product is not meeting specification, including root cause analysis to prevent re-occurrence
    Health and Safety
  • Ensure that you and the team adhere to H&S policies

Continuous Improvement

  • Be actively involved with continuous improvement projects and ensure all Quality procedures are followed.
  • Drive through Quality agenda with support of Operations Team and siie CI Lead

Hygiene

  • Embrace a CAYGO approach to your work

Personal Qualities

  • You will be totally committed to delivering excellent customer experience – you will embody and champion our values every day in the way you deal with customers and colleagues.
  • Work with gravitas, courage, maturity and be calm under pressure, building credibility and respect with internal and external stakeholders. With strong interpersonal skills that enables you to give timely feedback in a frank, positive way.
  • Able to work collaboratively with all parts of the business, knowing when to support, when to push back and when to hold the line.
  • Demonstrate a strong commitment to the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion.
  • You will have the ability to inspire colleagues in a positive way through support and encouragement while also tackling any performance issues early and decisively to avoid problems from developing further.
  • You’ll be a credible self-starter with drive and motivation and will seek out your internal and external customers, to understand fully your customers’ needs, identifying and working to remove pain points, and always doing what you say you will.
  • A champion and role model for anticipating, shaping and enabling change you will be flexible, adaptable and resilient.
  • You will be passionate about Product Quality and be an effective and articulate communicator.
  • You will demonstrate an entrepreneurial mindset, confident to challenge status quo and bring new ideas

Qualifications and skills

  • Ideally a HND or BSc in a food related course or 2+ years of experience in a food manufacturing quality focused role.
  • Min Level 2 Food Hygiene training.

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