QA Manager

Why Greencore?

We're one of the UK's leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better.
As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we're proud to employ over 13,300 talented colleagues across 16 manufacturing sites and 17 distribution depots throughout the UK. Together, we bring delicious food to life, from sandwiches, and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles, and ready meals. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve revenues of £1.95bn.
Our extensive direct-to-store (DTS) network, with 17 depots nationwide, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring our customers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

At Greencore we actively encourage our colleagues to apply for our vacancies, whether as a lateral move to broaden experience or the next step up to progress your career and development. We also welcome applications from external candidates who are eager to grow their career with us.
Here at Leeds we make just over 40% of all UK frozen Yorkshire puddings; making us one of the UK's largest suppliers of frozen Yorkshire puddings to Asda, Morrisons & Tesco to name a few!

What you'll be doing

Shift: Monday - Friday, flexibility required

As QA Manager you will lead and co-ordinate the work of the quality assurance (QA) teams to deliver and implement service improvement in line with operational day to day needs with regards to safety, quality, legality and customer requirements

Direct the team to deliver the quality management system (QMS), including the internal audit plan in order to ensure compliance with customer, manufacturing unit, legislative, divisional and strategic requirements
Provide information and demonstrate operational practice in support of external audits to enable compliance with customer requirements
Continue to develop the capability of the QA team through the technical strategy
Monitor departmental key performance indicators, adjusting team activity to ensure targets are achieved
Plan and maintain resource utilisation to advise the required quality assurance tasks
Lead and deliver a project(s) to create business effectiveness and cost efficiency
Building production capability and understanding to achieve relevant technical requirements
Ensure that a safe working environment exists for all colleagues and that as a minimum the department meets the standards set out in the Health Safety and Environment Policy What we're looking for

We're not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.

Has previous internal audit experience
Holds an intermediate Level 3 Food Hygiene and Level 3 Health and Safety certificate
Experience in a food manufacturing environment
Ability to use computer programmes including Word, Excel and related technical IT packages
Knowledge of the Hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP) principles and practice
Knowledge of allergen awareness-implications / related to labelling and nutritional awareness
Demonstratable shelf-life determination and awareness
Experience and knowledge of hygiene and disinfection principles
Can demonstrate basic micro awareness
Knowledgeable about the principles of risk assessment
Knowledgeable about legal labelling as a basic requirement
Basic knowledge of weight legislation
Knowledge of technical key performance indicators
Desired:
Educated to degree level with a Food specialism or equivalent qualification OR has relevant work experience

If this sounds like you join us, grow with Greencore and be a part of driving our future success

What you'll get in return

Competitive salary and job-related benefits
Holidays
Pension up to 8% matched
Company share save scheme
Greencore Qualifications
Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career