We are representing a lovely health business in the heart of the countryside who are looking for a Quality Control Manager to join their small but growing team. 

If you want to work in a health and environmental business this could be the one for you. This is a micro business that has been manufacturing drinks and food supplements. It has organically grown and now needs support with process and quality management. 

The salary will be circa £28 - £35k PA
Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS

· Ensure Quality is first and foremost consideration in the Operations area

- With management support, develop and embed the evolving quality management system

including HACCP, incident reporting, product traceability and recall and management

review.

- Develop an understanding of all compliance requirements for food and feed

manufacturing

- Manage product testing schedule & outputs

- Maintain product ingredient and packaging specification

- Deliver quality accreditations as agreed with management

- Overseeing and monitoring customer service calls

· Plan and manage operations

- Plan production schedule and resourcing requirements

- Ensure dispatch carried out accurately, to quality standards

- Develop a training matrix

- Manage inventory and security

- Organise warehouse space to improve efficiency

· Manage and motivate the team

- Conduct one to one’s

- Undertake appraisals

- Manage absence

- Recruitment and induction

· Manage Health and Safety

- Lead relations with Health & Safety advisors

- Develop health & safety procedures

- Ensure staff are trained in procedures

Experience/background:

Team lead in a manufacturing or warehouse/ environment

Experience in quality management is a distinct advantage

Skills:

Supervisory skills
Good standards of communication both verbal and written
Ability to work effectively with external consultants to develop systems/processes/protocols to develop a compliant production regime
Health and safety
Competent Excel/word

Personality:

Flexible attitude to work
Able to cope with setbacks/calm
Good planner and organiser.
Highly methodical Team player
Assertive Curious with an interest in learning
Likes finding better ways of doing things
Open to giving and receiving feedback
The successful candidate will have a real interest in the health of the environment