Quality Manager

Quality Manager

Main Responsibilities:

• Leading site compliance to relevant standards (BRC Packaging, ISO14001), regulations and legislation.
• Managing site environment monitoring program.
• Ensuring that the IMS (Integrated management system) is established, implemented, maintained and updated.
• Reporting on the effectiveness and suitability of the IMS and input into training requirements in relation to the IMS.
• Ensuring the promotion of awareness of customer requirements throughout the organisation.
• Establishing procedures in conjunction with operating staff.
• Communicating externally and internally any information concerning food/product safety.
• Leading on site HARA team.
• Planning and managing all internal, external, customer and vendor audits including BRC, SEDEX.
• Internal validation, testing and approval of new and modified products.
• Monitoring and measuring key indicators and reporting trends.
• Investigating RCA, implementing CA/PA and reporting to the customer (including customer visits).
• Reporting packaging statistics to government agencies.
• Liaising with Group Expert Team QA on Policy's and new/improved systems and participate in Expert team meetings
• Ensuring compliance with national, international regulations and legislation and controlling DoCs as required for the customer.
• Implementing ongoing improvement with the various departments and at group level.
• Changing management control for IMS system.
• Managing change/sample requests projects.
• Compiling annual management review documents.
• Managing site environmental monitoring program.
• Managing quality incidents, non-conformance and customer complaints.
• Leading site FAT/SAT product approval in conjunction with R&D and Technical Quality Teams.
• Managing & coach quality team.
• Monthly reporting and monitoring of quality KPIs
• Management of risk (product).
• Responsibility for first off approval.

EXPERT FUNCTION

• Defining quality means for new products & implement them.
• Advising project managers on solutions/options (conception, historic of other similar products, raw materials, standards).
• Evaluating the statistical process control.
• Validating quality criteria's & customer specifications (dimensions, tolerances min/ max , functionalities).
• Implementing and continually improve production control standards (testing criteria, specifications, inspection SOPs).
• Organising Training for line operators, technicians to Quality for new products.
• Setting control plans and monitor the results.