Quality Assurance Manager

Quality Assurance Manager

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Quality Assurance Manager to join our team at McCormick & Company. As a Quality Assurance Manager, you will be responsible for maintaining quality documentation, HACCP program maintenance, and verification and standard implementation for allergen management, foreign body controls, internal food safety inspections, non-conformance, environmental monitoring, pest control, food safety & quality culture.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain quality documentation up to date and ensure HACCP program is implemented and maintained.
• Verify and implement standards for allergen management, foreign body controls, internal food safety inspections, non-conformance, environmental monitoring, pest control, and food safety & quality culture.
• Provide Food Safety, Food Defence & Quality Systems Training for site staff and ensure they receive relevant training and achieve the minimum agreed understanding of the training and how it applies to their role within McCormick.
• Support Internal FS & QS inspection and Audit programs to ensure the site is capable of achieving required customer and third party accreditations.
• Lead GHP/ GMP audits and quality culture on the production to ensure standard fulfillment.
• Support External Customer and Third Party Audit programme to ensure Customer Quality and Food Safety requirements are identified and complied with by the site.
• Execute plans for continuous improvement for operations.
• Attract, maintain and develop high talent staff, define performance standards and hold staff and self-accountable, provide coaching and feedback effectively.
• Create development/training plans for individuals within the team and manage employee relations.
• Manage the corrective action programs to ensure appropriate handling, response and resolution of internal and external audits.
• Manage the Investigation and resolution of complaints and non-conformances to ensure appropriate corrective actions are implemented to prevent recurrence of the issues.
• Identify and implement continuous improvement to the programs to prevent recurrence of the issues.

Requirements

• Educated to Master Degree level or equivalent, preferably Graduate, in Microbiology or Food Technology.
• Minimum of +5 years functional/leadership experience.
• Demonstrated significant and relevant skills and consistent results in functional area.
• Leadership experience with demonstrated success in managing people both formally and informally.
• Understanding of how all areas of the plant and warehouse interact to contribute to the business and to meet customer's expectations. Requires a general understanding of the industry.
• Basic commercial awareness as it relates to competition but only requires limited understanding of the latest developments in the industry.
• Ability to adapt to changes in external environment.
• Ability to seek innovative solutions and encourages the same in staff and informally influence Operations and Supply Chain teams.
• Extensive knowledge of HACCP, BRC Auditing, SSOP's, GMP's, Quality Systems, and Hygiene required.