Senior Quality Assurance Manager

Company: D R Newitt Recruitment
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Location: West Midlands
Job Description:

As Senior Quality Manager, you’ll manage the site’s Technical function, ensuring legal compliance, food safety and adherence to customer specification, while driving standards on the shop floor.

Key Responsibilities

  • Ensure Quality Managers are effectively recruited, inducted, trained and managed
  • Ensure team development is in line with talent needs defined by the technical function
  • Support external audits, e.g. BRCGS, Red Tractor, retailer
  • Maintain internal audit schedules, ensure audits are completed, and communicate corrective action plans so non-conformances are signed off within agreed timescales
  • Provide Operations with technical monitoring and auditing so customer requirements are understood and achieved
  • Review the frequency of non-conformances to identify longer-term corrective action plans
  • Review specifications for all products, packaging and ingredients, ensuring versions are current and meet customer specifications
  • Coordinate investigations into technical customer complaints, ensuring findings and action plans are completed and communicated internally and externally
  • Support effective relationships with internal and external customers, including during site visits
  • Act as an effective link between NPD and production, ensuring new or changed products, processes and packaging are introduced effectively

What You’ll Need

  • Food-related HND, Advanced Food Safety Level 4 and Advanced HACCP Level 4
  • Experience of BRCGS or ISO 9000
  • Leadership skills and experience of motivating teams
  • Ability to communicate verbally and in writing at all levels
  • Knowledge and experience of major retailers

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Posted: September 21st, 2026