Quality Manager

The Role

To ensure products manufactured comply with food safety, quality, legal and customer codes of practice against the site’s Quality Management System requirements.

The Quality Manager is a crucial interface between the Technical Manager and the Quality Assurance factory team and will lead the front-line delivery of food safety and quality KPIs.
The role requires proactive and close collaboration with all Operational, Engineering and Hygiene departments to ensure products are made "right first time" to customer quality and food safety standards.

The role is pivotal to delivering "audit ready" standards through leadership of the QA internal audit teams and meeting internal and external compliance targets or reversing any adverse trends by working closely with associated departments.

A key contact and support on managing site visits from customers or audit bodies.

Company Information

Sofina Foods is more than just a food company. It’s a place where you can grow your career, learn new skills, and make a positive impact on the world.

With a wide range of meat and seafood products that delight consumers worldwide, Sofina Foods is always looking for talented and passionate people to join its team of over 13,000 employees across 40 sites in Canada and Europe, including Young’s Seafood and Karro Food Group.

At Sofina Foods, you will be part of a culture that values innovation, quality, sustainability, and customer satisfaction. You will also have the opportunity to work with diverse and delicious products that are sourced responsibly and sustainably from over 50 different protein sources from 5 continents.

Sofina Foods has a 25 year history of excellence in the food industry and provides over 500 million meals for the global market every year.

Our vision is to be the most successful food company in the worldIf you are looking for a rewarding and exciting career in the food sector, Sofina Foods is the place for you.

Key Accountabilities

• Drives daily GMP KPI’s above target in the manufacturing environment, develops GMP standards, work instructions and audit/verification support.
• Manage the QA team to achieve "audit ready" compliance through GMP’s and ensuring corrective actions from audits are implemented to target working closely with factory teams.
• Participates in the HACCP team and development of the HACCP plan. Able to verify CCP controls and review procedures. Training front line staff in HACCP principles, CCP awareness and implementation. Support QA and Operational teams in factory line CCP monitoring and control requirements.
• Manage a GMP system to trend information and drive improvements
• Ensure traceability on site is robust and meets all customer and 3rd party requirements
• Ensure internal audit programmes and training, keeps abreast of new standards and ensures implementation down to factory line level.
• Working closely with Technical and operational teams to manage the control of site allergens through effective segregation controls, cross contamination prevention and compliance with customer risk mitigation codes of practice.
• Champion of factory process and food hygiene controls with excellent understanding of microbiology - working closely with Food Safety Manager, Hygiene and Technical Managers to define and implements action plans.
• Ensuring line manufacturing specifications are adhered to through effect QA audit.
• Champion/support daily customer sensory panels and QAS standards for the delivery of consistent quality of products. Analyse results to prevent adverse trends working closely with associated departments.
• Identify and investigate process and product non-conformances, assign corrective action responsibility and develop collaborative actions plans to redress adverse trends. Carry out risk assessments to support good decision making.
• Working closely with the TSC, TM, Operational and Training teams to ensure factory SOPs meet the requirements of the QSM at line level for food safety, quality and compliance.

Skills and Experience Required

• Ideally qualified to degree level in a Food or Science
• Minimum of 3 years chilled food industry experience (ideally meat/High risk ready to eat products or multi component chilled foods) with demonstrable record/impact on audit success.
• Proven track record as Supervisor/Manager in a Technical or Process Development function.
• Formally HACCP trained Level 3.
• Level 4 Food Safety/Hygiene.
• Formal Auditor training (Lead Assessor ideally).
• Knowledge of latest industry and retailer audit/compliance standards (BRC Vs 8.0, M&S Manufacturing standards Integrity and Food safety, Tesco TFMS standard, CFA best practice guidelines chilled foods, Campden Heat processing and micro criteria, Codex HACCP.
• An engaging person with great interpersonal skills.
• Energy, motivational, inspirational and creative.
• An effective assertive and compelling communicator with mature and capable thinking to bring insight and simplicity to complex interdependent issues.
• Promotes team effectiveness through good structures and decision making at the right level.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Competitive Contributory Pension
• Online Benefits Hub
• Free onsite parking