Quality Zone Manager
- Posted 02 May 2025
- LocationWoolston
- Job type Permanent - Full Time
- Discipline Technical
- Reference032744
- Job FunctionOperations
- Expiry date 31 May 2025
Job description
Why Greencore?
We’re a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make everyday taste better.
We’re a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing 13,300 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK’s food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY24, we generated revenues of £1.8bn.
Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,500 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties.
Our Warrington site is also known as the Italian centre of excellence, recent expansion and investment make this site a state-of-the-art manufacturing unit! We produce high quality Italian ready meals for both Tesco & Co-Op.
What you’ll be doing
PM Shift - 17:00 - 00:30 - Mon - Fri (Factory-based role)
To deliver and implement service improvement in line with operational day to day needs with regards to safety, quality, legality and customer requirements:
* To deliver the quality management system 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 production teams through the technical strategy
* Monitor departmental key performance indicators 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
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.
We’re proud to be recognised in the Gender Equity Measure Top 100 for our commitment to gender equality.
* Educated to degree level with a Food specialism or equivalent qualification (or has relevant work experience)
* Has previous internal audit experience
* Holds an intermediate Food Hygiene certificate level 3 and level 3 Health and Safety
* Experience in a food manufacturing environment
* Ability to use computer programmes including Word, Excel and related technical IT packages
* Knowledge of the 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
If this sounds like you, join us and 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
- Life insurance up to 4x salary
- 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.