QA Manager

Greencore Group plc; Leeds; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading convenience food manufacturer is seeking a QA Manager to lead quality assurance teams in ensuring compliance with food safety and quality standards. You will coordinate audits, monitor performance indicators, and enhance team capabilities. Ideal candidates will have internal audit experience, relevant food hygiene certifications, and a strong understanding of HACCP principles. Competitive salary and benefits are offered to support your career development.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Holidays

Pension up to 8% matched

Company share save scheme

Greencore Qualifications

Employee discount platform

Access to Wellbeing Centre platform

Qualifications

• Has previous internal audit experience.
• Experience in a food manufacturing environment.
• Knowledge of legal labelling requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead and co‑coordinate the work of QA teams.
• Direct the delivery of the quality management system.
• Monitor key performance indicators to ensure targets are met.
• Ensure a safe working environment in line with Health Safety and Environment Policy.

Skills

Internal audit experience

Knowledge of HACCP principles

Intermediate Level 3 Food Hygiene certificate

Knowledge of allergen facilities

Ability to use Word and Excel

Micro awareness

Understanding of risk assessments

Education

Degree level with a Food specialism or equivalent

Job description

Why Greencore?

We’re one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by الطاقة simple purpose: to make everyday taste better.

As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we’re proud to employ over 13,300 talented colleagues across 16 manufacturing sites and 17 distribution depots throughout the UK. Together, we bring delicious food to life, from sandwiches, and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles, and ready meals. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve revenues of £1.95bn.

Our extensive direct-to-store (DTS) network, with 17 depots nationwide, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring our customers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

At Greencore we actively encourage our colleagues to apply for our vacancies, whether as a lateral move to broaden experience or the next step up to progress your career and development. We also welcome applications from external candidates who are eager to grow their career with us.

Here at Leeds we make just over 40% of all UK frozen Yorkshire puddings; making us one of the UK’s largest suppliers of frozen Yorkshire puddings to Asda, Morrisons & Tesco to name a few!

What you’ll be doing

Shift: Monday - Friday, flexibility required

As QA Manager you will lead and co‑coordinate the work of the quality assurance (QA) teams to deliver and implement service improvement in line with operational day‑to‑day needs with regards to safety, quality, legality and customer requirements

• Direct the team to deliver the quality management system (QMS), including the internal audit plan in order to ensure compliance with customer, manufacturing unit, legislative, divisional and strategic requirements
াঙ্গProvide information and demonstrate operational practice in support of external audits to enable compliance with customer requirements
• Continue to develop the capability of the QA team through the technical strategy
• Monitor departmental key performance indicators, adjusting team activity to ensure targets are achieved
• Plan and maintain resource utilisation to advise the required quality assurance tasks
• Lead and deliver a project(s) to create business effectiveness and cost efficiency
• Building production capability and understanding to achieve relevant technical requirements
• Ensure that a safe working environment exists for all colleagues and that as a minimum the department meets the standards set out in the Health Safety and Environment Policy

What we’re looking for

We’re not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.

• Has previous internal audit experience
• Holds an intermediate Level 3 Food Hygiene and Level 3 Health and Safety certificate
• Experience in a food manufacturing environment
• Ability to use computer programmes including Word, Excel and related technical IT packages
• Knowledge of the Hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP) principles and practice
• Knowledge of allergen facilities implications / related to labelling and nutritional awareness
• Demonstratable shelf‑life determination and awareness
honaExperience and knowledge of hygiene and disinfection principles
• Can demonstrate basic micro awareness
• Knowledgeable about the principles of risk assessment
• Knowledgeable about legal labelling as a basic requirement
• Basic knowledge of weight legislation
• Knowledge of technical key performance indicators
• Desired: Educated to degree level with a Food specialism or equivalent qualification OR has relevant work experience

If this sounds like you join us, grow with Greencore and be a part of driving our future success

What you’ll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on‑the‑job training and development opportunities to further your career.