Job Description
Laboratory Manager
Location: Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
Salary: £36,370 £36,400 DOE + excellent benefits
We are seeking a dynamic Laboratory Manager to join a well-established manufacturer at their Tewkesbury production site. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a laboratory team within a business that prides itself on quality, innovation, and a supportive culture where people are truly valued.
The Role
As Laboratory Manager, you ll take ownership of the lab function, ensuring compliance with BRCGS standards, HACCP protocols, and food safety legislation. You ll manage testing schedules, oversee audit readiness, and develop your team to maintain the highest standards of product quality and safety.
- Lead and mentor a small lab team, fostering a collaborative, high-performance culture
- Plan and oversee testing across raw materials, in-process and finished products
- Maintain audit readiness and liaise with auditors to uphold standards
- Ensure laboratory equipment is maintained, calibrated, and verified
- Champion continuous improvement, driving KPIs, root-cause analysis and corrective actions
- Oversee documentation, laboratory procedures, HACCP, and COSHH compliance
- Manage external testing, customer certificates, and non-conformance investigations
About You
- Proven experience in a lab environment, ideally in food manufacturing (microbiology/food science/biology background)
- Strong knowledge of BRCGS Food Safety, HACCP, QMS and microbiological safety
- Excellent leadership, coaching, and communication skills
- Comfortable with data analysis, SOP writing and problem solving
- HNC/Degree in a science subject desirable
Why Join?
This is more than just a management role it s a chance to be part of a business with a great culture, strong values, and genuine career development opportunities. You ll be working in an environment where quality, teamwork, and continuous improvement are at the heart of everything.
Apply in confidence to jillw (url removed)
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