looking for a new challenge where you can really make your mark this well established well known fmcg food and beverage company is looking for an experienced talented and innovative quality manager to establish systems and protocols for this brand new site in milton keynes technical quality manager fmcg food to k looking for a new challenge where you can really make your mark this well established well known fmcg food and beverage company is looking for an experienced talented and innovative quality manager to establish systems and protocols for this brand new site in milton keynes this is an exciting opportunity to get involved from the ground up using your extensive quality and technical experience to create processes and ways of working that will reduce risk and deliver a quality product for years to come x3 as well as recruiting the team that will support and maintain those high quality standards as production gets underway role profile working within the operations team the job holder will report directly to the factory manager and will be a member of the factory management team working alongside production engineering planning materials and administrative colleagues the job holder will have direct managerial responsibility for a small number of quality officers as well as indirect responsibility for ensuring quality standards are maintained and improved across all members of the production team principal accountabilities x to be the site expert and champion of all quality environmental hygiene and microbiological standards adopting a proactive approach to influence the entire site to perform in line with company policies and procedures and the relevant legislation x lead develop and coach the quality team to perform at the highest possible standards to meet and surpass the sitex9 s kpix2019 s x analyse trends initiate and working closely with the factory management team and fellow quality managers at other sites implement quality improvements where appropriate to ensure the site is continually striving for and delivering the highest possible quality standards x develop maintain and audit the quality assurance risk management and environmental systems and plans across the site to minimise risk and ensure continuous accreditation to the agreed systems these include iso 9001 brc bs iso 14001 haccp and risk minimisation and incident management plans the job holder must also ensure that all relevant product quality and traceability data is retained x work closely with rd to ensure all recipes are accurate workable and produced in time to allow for a smooth introduction into manufacturing x to host both customer and third party audits and carry out external supplier audits as required the successful candidate will ideally be degree qualified in a food science or related subject and have had significant experience at management level ideally within both quality and technical departments in a food or drinks manufacturing environment an in depth knowledge and understanding of iso bs haccp and brc quality systems is essential strong it skills are required you will be a positive x201c can