QA Supervisor

We are the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, and our presence in the US and China positions the Group well in these high-growth markets. We leverage our consumer insight and scale to provide innovative food that offers quality, choice, convenience, and freshness. Around 18,500 colleagues operate from 44 sites across our three markets supplying a portfolio of over 2,900 products across meals, pizza & bread, salads and desserts to leading grocery retailers in the UK and US, and international food brands in China.

Bakkavor Bourne specialises in making prepared fruit, stir fry mixes, leafy and dressed salads. It employs over 1,100 people and forms part of the Bakkavor Meals sector in the UK.

Location: Bakkavor Bourne, PE10 0AT

Salary: up to £33,000 + £3,294 night shift allowance

Benefits include life assurance (1 x salary), staff shop serving hot food, pension scheme, MyBargains discount platform, Personal Accident Insurance, Free Independent Mortgage Advice, Employee Assistance programme, voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life insurance, dental and hospital cash plans), discounted tutoring for children, access to financial learning tools, Private Medical Insurance (after 5 years’ service) and free car parking.

Shift: 4 on 4 off, Nights

Hours: 18:00 – 06:00

The role

This is a fantastic opportunity for a QA Supervisor to join our Technical team at Bakkavor Bourne. In this role, you will lead and motivate the QA team in monitoring and evaluating product and processing systems.

Your main accountabilities will include understanding and applying relevant standards so that Bakkavor, Customer and Legal requirements are achieved and maintained. This role is key to driving improve GMP standards and audit results across the site. You will influence and work collaboratively with the operational teams and agree solutions together.

Duties include:

To participate and direct QA team to observe and audit production processes and GMP ensuring products are made to specification and within customer codes of practice and Bakkavor standards, reporting findings to managers as appropriate
To ensure products and ingredients are evaluated against specification
To assist in delivery of site standards for visits and audits either through direct input, indirect support and / or organisation of QA team activities
To coordinate QA requirements for product launches e.g. update of required documentation / systems, liaison with Process team / line support to ensure product is manufactured to correct standard 
With guidance from Line Manager, manage QA activities required to deliver improvement of Technical KPIs e.g. audit of non-conforming processes, complaint investigations, update of swab schedules, GMP audits, glass and plastic audits.
Lead, motivate and inspire QA team to achieve personal development and continuous improvement To promote a quality culture and help to develop the quality management system About you:

Experience of leading a team
Experience of working in a manufacturing environment
Quality Assurance experience within a chilled environment
Strong communication skills both written and verbal
Good IT skills including Word, Excel and Outlook  

At Bakkavor Bourne we can offer fantastic training, great prospects and opportunity for careers and development and excellent job stability.

Proud to be Bakkavor

We’re proud to be the leading UK provider of innovative, high-quality, fresh prepared food. We’re proud to be driven by the hard work and passion of our people. And we’re proud to offer a wide range of careers full of support and opportunity. Join our team and we’ll make you proud too.

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