Senior Quality Manager

Senior Quality Manager
Location: Golborne, Warrington (WA3)
Permanent
Up to £75,000 dependant on experience

Benefits package; Generous pension contributions, Bonus, Life Assurance, Employee Christmas vouchers, PerkBox High Street brand discounts, Long service awards, Subsidised onsite canteen.

At ALPLA, we stand for high-quality plastic packaging throughout the world. Around 22,000 colleagues produce quality packaging for foodstuffs, cosmetics and industrial cleaning brands for many blue-chip clients across 182 ALPLA sites in 45 countries.

Job Purpose:

We are seeking a Senior Quality Manager to lead, oversee and continually enhance our Quality functions. This is a senior level role responsible for driving Quality performance across the business, championing continuous improvement, and embedding robust quality processes throughout manufacturing operations. This role will have 3 direct reports and 20 indirect reports.

We are looking for a confident, influential leader with a strong manufacturing background, capable of managing and developing a team of QC Inspectors, Quality Coordinators, Quality Production Managers and Quality Systems teams. The ideal candidate will bring a balanced blend of Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Control (QC) experience, influence senior stakeholders, and guide the organisation toward best practice. This role places a significant emphasis on leadership, mentorship, and people development.

Key Responsibilities: Senior Quality Manager

• Leading and developing the Quality Team, providing coaching, mentoring and support to ensure high performance and capability across QA and QC functions.
• Driving continuous improvement of quality processes, systems, and tools, ensuring alignment with applicable standards such as ISO 9001 -FSSC 22000.
• Overseeing the Integrated Management System, ensuring changes are communicated and embedded across relevant stakeholders.
• Managing quality inspection activity, ensuring accurate and timely reporting to internal and external stakeholders.
• Investigating Customer Complaints and NCRs, identifying root causes and ensuring corrective actions are implemented to prevent recurrence.
• Leading internal audit programmes and participating in third-party and customer audits.
• Conducting risk-based assessments (e.g., FMEA) to identify and mitigate potential process failures.
• Analysing Quality performance data, identifying trends, and recommending improvement actions.
• Promoting collaboration, open communication and best practice sharing across the organisation.
• Ensure robust corrective actions (RCA) are implemented, provide quality management training and support across the organisation.
• Forms close working relationships with local and regional OPEX teams, regional Quality teams to ensure corporate systems and processes are embedded into daily work.

Key Requirements: Senior Quality Manager

• Strong background in a manufacturing environment ideally from a Plastics, Food or Pharmacutical background this is essential and central to the role with a Blend of Quality Assurance and Quality Control experience.
• Proven leadership capability, including team management, coaching and mentoring
• Experience managing and improving Quality Management Systems.
• Experience in root-cause analysis, lean manufacturing tools, internal audits, and risk-based quality methodologies (e.g., FMEA)
• Degree Qualified in either a Science, Quality Management, or technical related degree.
• Ideally you will hold or are working towards a lean six sigma qualification.

Additional Information:

• Life assurance from day one
• Bonus scheme
• Company Pension scheme
• Subsidised canteen
• Training and Development Support
• Maternity and paternity pay scheme
• Christmas vouchers for you and your children
• Long service awards

Our new perk box offering a wealth of benefits such as: -

• Money off purchases such as food, drink, cinema, tickets, clothing, and homeware and so much more
• A number of freebies across the perk box site, such as free coffees
• Online access to free exercise and yoga classes with 24/7 access to qualified therapists

Contact Nathan Turtington UK Internal Recruiter for more information.