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Do you have experience in Food Quality Managment? Does FMCG, Quality Food & Safety excite you? Then this role may be for you...Purpose Provide leadership and manage Food Safety and Quality issues arising from any stage of our on-site processes as determined by risk. Ensuring the production of all finished products complies with legislation as well as internal and external standards (including BRC, QRMP, KHMS, Organic, KFC, Aldi, Halal, FSA)Responsibilities include:Effective management of a team of Centre Support Managers, including responsibility for Tasting Room and ISM activities. Lead and co-ordinate the internal and external auditing programme, delivering successful outcomes in all cases. (BRC, Organic, Customer audits, QRMP, EHO)Key contribution to the training / development of the FSQ Team as well as developing and delivering training courses to site operations & engineering teams in support of quality improvement initiatives.Lead Serious Incident investigations to ensure root causes are identified and preventative measures implemented. Update Global Serious Incident Database to ensure learnings are shared across other sites. Improve and standardise FSQ processes across Kitt Green (and other UK sites as required) to ensure the achievement of business and legal requirements. Deputise for FSQ ManagerKey Accountabilities:Ensure all finished product leaving Heinz control is of the correct standard by effective management of Finished product from Quarantines and Incidents.Provide Problem solving skills to ensure root causes of incidents are understood and introduce preventative actions to ensure issues are not repeatedIdentify and communicate Top Losses for each centre / area for RFT, Cost of Quality and Complaints, ensuring appropriate improvement plans are in place Play a key role in maintaining, developing and improving systems to comply with requirements to both internal and external standards. Reduce operational risk by identifying opportunities to simplify and strengthen current practices and ways of working.Deliver improvements in FSQ-related KPIs, including Right First Time, Cost of Quality, NDC Blocked Stock, Consumer Complaints. Focus Centre Support resource on ensuring the Kitt Green operation is fully supported. Develop an agile team that delivers results by focussing on prevention of issues and finds clever solutions to simplify and improve. Define and monitor standards across the site in terms of acceptable Hygiene and Housekeeping standards to drive daily improvements. Experience The jobholder should have experience in the food industry in a Quality Assurance Management / Operational Management environment. The jobholder must hold a degree in an appropriate scientific discipline and have demonstrable management capabilities.Must display a positive enthusiasm and demonstrate a real drive to make pragmatic, informed, timely Food Safety and Quality decisions that support the site whilst protecting the Brands. The job holder is required to have extensive knowledge of, and be adept at applying, techniques such as HACCP, risk assessment and continuous improvement. The jobholder will have considerable individual impact and credibility and possess the social, negotiating and influencing skills to build and maintain relationships.Key Stakeholders / RelationshipsWork closely with Ops managers and their teams to develop quality improvement plans as well as ensuring strong support for trouble shooting and problem solving for issues that affect the safety and quality of manufactured product.Daily/Weekly contact with NDC logistics teams for Blocked Stock and Rework management. Regular liaison with central Consumer Contact team to ensure consumer and customer communications are correct and appropriate. Close relationships with Cleaning and Pest Management Providers Regular contact with Planning, Engineering, EHS, CI, Procurement, R&D as required