Quality Manager Milton Keynes, England
Job description
As a Quality Manager for Lantmännen Unibake you will be a champion for quality performance across the Milton Keynes manufacturing site. The emphasis of the role will be on further developing quality and food safety systems in order to meet customer and legal requirements, whilst working closely with all operational teams to ensure their total commitment to the highest possible standards.
You have:
- Manufacturing experience, food environment required
- Experience of working in a customer focussed retailer led environment
- A proven track record of effective product quality management
- Sound factory knowledge
You will be great at:
- Leading customer and third-party technical audits
- Leading, managing, coaching and developing all members of the QA team including managing workload, rotas, absence, performance, training and recruitment
- Working in conjunction with the Technical Compliance Manager to ensure the site quality and process management system is fit for purpose and meets the required standards and customer COPs, and its continued ability to produce products to the desired quality standards
- Development of the product quality assessment programme to ensure continued improvement
- Understand and deliver customer requirements– COPs in conjunction with the Technical Account Managers, be actively involved in trials and site visits.
- Management of the sites calibration programme ensuring all tests are conducted to defined schedules
- Site HACCP team leader ensuring the plan is devised and implemented to ensure product safety
- Conducting internal audits at Lantmännen Unibake Bedford & Milton Keynes as required
- Conducting, coordinating, interpreting and communicating all relevant laboratory testing results to the technical team and site management
- Assistance in conducting any relevant and suitable training to the wider business
- Development and communication of key technical reports, trending and analysis to relevant internal and external contact
You are:
- An excellent leader, people manager, and communicator you can influence internal and external stakeholders
- Owner of site quality and food safety KPIs (complaints, Micro, GMP, Audits etc..) effectively measuring, communicating & driving focused actions to achieve and better targets set
- Effective time management with ability to meet tight deadlines methodical, questioning nature in order to find and solve root cause
- Ability to make pragmatic decisions and solve problems based on a data-given process
About the company
Lantmännen Unibake is a leading global bakery company within the Lantmännen Group. With expertise in bakery products for food service and retail, we serve consumers around the clock and across the world every day. The aim is to make bread and pastry a profitable business for our customers through tasty, high-quality products and innovative solutions and based on a sustainable mind-set and excellent food safety standards. Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, Lantmännen Unibake operates modern bakeries around the world and has sales in more than 60 countries. The brand portfolio comprises a range of well-established B2B and BtC brands e.g. Schulstad Bakery Solutions, Schulstad, Bonjour, Vaasan, Pastridor and Hatting. Lantmännen Unibake has a turnover of EUR 1.1 billion and employs more than 6,000 people in 20+ countries. Appetite for more? Visit us at www.lantmannen-unibake.com
