Author: Rebekah Hinchcliffe

Job Title:         Quality Assurance Supervisor

Reporting To:  Quality Assurance Manager

Salary: £31,750 plus shift allowance

Shift Pattern: Rotating – Week 1 – Monday to Thursday 06:00-14:00 Friday 06:00-13:00 / Week 2 Monday to Thursday 14:00-22:00 Friday 13:00-20:00.

Some flexibility may be required

 

Job Purpose:

To be responsible for all Quality Assurance issues during production.

To manage a team ensuring adequate skills cover required, to keep the standards maintained.

To promote a continuous improvement environment with regard to efficiency and accuracy of the products we produce.

To ensure compliance to official standards (CLAS, BRC, customer codes of practice & HACCP) are maintained at all times, and that the site is audit ready.

 

Key Responsibilities

 

• To ensure compliance with statutory requirements, F Duerr & Sons Ltd Health & Safety Policy, and Good Manufacturing Practices, ensuring that product is manufactured in a hygienic environment, safely and to specification in compliance with Food Legislation, F Duerr & Sons Ltd site codes of practice and customer codes of practice.
• To manage an effective Quality Assurance service to the business with specific emphasis on creating a ‘right first time’ operating system, keeping non-conforming product to a minimum and ensuring correct procedure is followed with regard to the specific requirements of items or product on ‘hold’.
• To ensure good communications are maintained within the organisation, working with Production, Hygiene and Engineering departments, to use their knowledge and skills to identify problems and implement opportunities.
• To identify training needs within the department and ensure adequate skilled cover that assures the ability to produce to standard performance, ensuring accurate analysis takes place within the department, of the product, process and packaging.
• To ensure all staff members are aware of the individual products requirements and encourage the ability to identify problems and report on them, creating and maintaining a continuous improvement environment and an audit ready focus.
• To provide an auditing role of all technical activities within the Production process. To be able to provide a due diligence defence on all aspects of product legality and quality.
• To create a high level of motivation within your team through sound leadership.
• To identify potential benefits with new methods and procedure and maintain the laboratory CLAS standard of accreditation
• To ensure HACCP studies are kept up to date and the information provided communicated accurately.

 

 

Skills and Experience Required:

Essential:

HACCP Team leadership

Good communication skills

Good knowledge of excel

Desirable:

Advanced HACCP certification

Previous supervisory experience

 

Key Relationships

QA teams, QA Manager, Senior QA Manager, operational teams, technical teams

 

Apply Now

If you are interested in this role, please email your CV to HR@duerrs.co.uk.

Job Title: Quality Assurance Manager          

Reporting To: Senior Quality Assurance Manager

Salary: £35,000 – £40,000 per annum DOA

Shift Pattern: 39 hours, Monday to Friday, Days.

 

Job Purpose:

To effectively manage and be responsible for the co-ordination of key Quality Assurance tasks within the F Duerr & Sons nut butter operation. Be responsible for the line management and training of the QA Team in the Dallimore Road site, ensuring adequate skills cover to keep standards maintained.

To promote a continuous improvement environment with regard to efficiency and accuracy of systems within the QA department, playing an integral role in the compliance of official standards (CLAS, BRC & HACCP) and that of specific customer requirements.

 

Key Responsibilities

1. To ensure that systems and procedures are being followed to attain the Company’s required Product Quality, Safety and Legality from raw material preparation through to finished goods
2. To communicate with Production and Engineering departments to ensure conformance to both product and process specification is achieved on a continuous basis, and that non-compliance’s are identified and investigated to find root cause, implementing corrective actions
3. Use the most appropriate communication channels to ensure key stakeholders, direct reports, and cross functional teams within the business are kept informed on a regular basis of all relevant information.
4. To effectively co-manage the Company HACCP system.
5. To be responsible for the administration tasks associated with key QA systems, including HACCP, GMP, CLAS, internal audits, training and others deemed reasonable by the Senior QA Manager.
6. To be responsible for the co-ordination of the laboratories sampling scheme.
7. To work with the Health & Safety Manager in ensuring that risk assessments are kept up to date, and to make recommendations of Health & Safety improvements and ensure corrective action / improvement initiatives are communicated.
8. To be responsible for the upkeep and reporting of analysis data associated with the manufacturing department, the objective being to make sustainable improvements on cost and efficiency.
9. To manage the general maintenance of the laboratories including purchase of equipment used and maintenance of calibration and servicing agreements.
10. To ensure effective investigation through to root cause and preventive action of customer complaints.
11. To provide support and manage direct reports in line with company policies and procedures, including absence, return to works and any potential disciplinary and grievances and carry out annual performance appraisals for direct reports.

 

Skills and Experience Required:

Essential:

• Degree level education related to science or food science.
• Experience in the food industry working in a lab, at least supervisory level.

Desirable:

• Experience of BRC and retailer codes of practice knowledge
• HACCP level 4 / advanced qualification

 

Apply Now

If you are interested in this role, please email your CV to HR@duerrs.co.uk.