Quality Assurance Team Leader - Food

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Quality Assurance Team Leader - Food

Bristol

£30'000-£35'000 + Days based role + Development + Pension + Flexi-time + 32 days' holiday

Excellent opportunity for a Quality Assurance Team Leader to join a company that will offer you a highly autonomous role where you will play a key part in this companies' growth and development.

Based in Bristol this award winning food manufacture prides itself not only on its quality products but to strive to achieve its mission aims, objectives and values. 2018 is set to be an exciting year for the company as they move into a state of the art offices and laboratory at the old Cadbury in Keynsham.

In this role you will be the champion of quality by developing this companies testing approach, team and facilities to be widely recognises as a centre of excellent. You will also ensure our standards in herbal quality move forward by fostering a culture of continuous, collaborative improvement with our partner suppliers and our procurement colleagues.

The idea candidate will have experience working in a laboratory or food manufacturing company and have experience leading and developing a team.

This is a fantastic role for someone to join a business that prides itself on its company culture and where you can have a brilliant long term career.

The role:

*Leading and developing the herbal quality team - building a reputation for discernment, collaboration, responsiveness, and service from clear-headed, transparent decision making.

*Overseeing the laboratory and orchestrating our network of laboratory partners.

*Turning our herbal concepts into reality by engaging with key stakeholders to establish quality standards for herbs and ensuring we stay true to this intent.

*Maintain the relevance of our herbal specifications through vigilance and expert interpretation of the external environment, of manufacturability of our products and of delivering product safety & claims in the optimum way. Refining and adapting specifications as needed; managing the associated change processes.

*Coordinating the resolution to technical challenges in raw material supply and blending - actively engaging with colleagues and supplier partners to ensure a speedy resolution.

*Gathering data on our herbal quality performance to guide stakeholders on risks and improvement opportunities.

*Optimise our testing approach to get the best value on testing, the most insightful view on quality and support our credentials in the market place.

*Keeping up to date with the latest trends in quality assurance and testing technologies, understanding what is most important and harnessing this insight to the best effect.

*Producing a range of technical documents such as SOPs, specifications, MSDS, COSHH assessments related to herbal quality activities.

The Person:

*Degree level or equivalent in a scientific subject.

*Experience in FMCG quality at a managerial level.

*A proven motivator and builder of teams and individuals.

*Candidate will ideally have experience working in a laboratory.

This role is for an immediate start so please send an up-to-date CV ASAP to SArah Hibberd.

This vacancy is being advertised by Rise Technical Recruitment Ltd. The services of Rise Technical Recruitment Ltd are that of an Employment Agency.

Rise Technical Recruitment Ltd regrets to inform that our client can only accept applications from engineering candidates who have a valid legal permit or right to work in the United Kingdom.

Potential candidates who do not have this right or permit, or are pending an application to obtain this right or permit should not apply as your details will not be processed.