Quality Zone Manager

Greencore Group plc; Warrington; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food manufacturer in Warrington is seeking a Quality Zone Manager for fixed-term maternity cover until March 2027. The role includes leading the quality assurance team, managing compliance to safety and quality standards, and driving service improvements. The position requires a degree in Food Science, internal audit experience, and knowledge of HACCP principles. Employees receive a competitive salary, generous benefits including holidays, pension matching, and access to a wellbeing platform.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Holidays

Pension up to 8% matched

Life insurance up to 4x salary

Company share save scheme

Exclusive employee discount platform

Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level with a Food specialism or equivalent qualification.
• Has previous internal audit experience.
• Holding an intermediate Food Hygiene certificate level 3 and Health and Safety.

Responsibilities

• Direct the team to deliver the quality management system.
• Provide support for external audits to ensure compliance.
• Lead projects to create business effectiveness and cost efficiency.

Skills

Food hygiene principles

Intermediate IT skills (Word, Excel)

Knowledge of HACCP principles

Understanding of allergen awareness

Understanding of risk assessment principles

Education

Degree in Food Science or equivalent

Job description

Why Greencore?

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

As a vibrant and fast-moving business,we’reproud 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 thevery best, whenever and wherever they shop.

Our Warrington site is also known as the Italian centre of excellence, recent expansion and investment make this site a state-of-the-art manufacturing unit! We produce high quality Italian ready meals for both Tesco & Co-Op.

What you'll be doing

As a Quality Zone Manager (fixed term maternity cover - to March 2027) your role will be to lead and co-ordinate the work of the quality assurance teams to deliver and implement service improvement, in line with operational day to day needs with regards to safety, quality, legality and customer requirements.

Shift -4 on / 4 off ( 0500-1610)

• Direct the team to deliver the quality management system including the internal audit plan in order to ensure compliance with customer, manufacturing unit, legislative, divisional and strategic requirements
• Provide information and demonstrate operational practice in support of external audits to enable compliance with customer requirements
• Continue to develop the capability of the Quality Assurance team through the technical strategy
• Monitor departmental key performance indicators adjusting team activity to ensure targets are achieve
• 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 proud to be recognised in the Gender Equity Measure Top 100 for our commitment to gender equality.

• Educated to degree level with a Food specialism or equivalent qualification (or has relevant work experience)
• Has previous internal audit experience
• Holds an intermediate Food Hygiene certificate level 3 and level 3 Health and Safety
• Experience in a food manufacturing environment
• Ability to use computer programmes including Word, Excel and related technical IT packages
• Knowledge of the HACCP principles and practice
• Knowledge of allergen awareness-implications / related to labelling and nutritional awareness
• Demonstratable shelf-life determination and awareness
• Experience 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

These may be trained or developed. These do not all need to be in place at recruitment.

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
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
• Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies

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