Quality & Compliance Lead

Quality & Compliance Lead

Salary: £45,000

Type:
Full time permanent

Team Lead Manager position, reporting in to the Operations Director

Location:

North Newcastle - Northeast - Longbenton

Sector - Food / Packaging / Pharmaceuticals / High speed - volume brand manufacturing

This is an excellent opportunity to join a multi-site UK business in new Quality & Compliance Lead appointment. You will have day to day responsibly of the management and implementation of compliance standards across multiple key business functions including, Quality, Health / safety, Environment, Information Security and BRCGS (Food Safety & Packaging Materials).

• Compliance & Audit
• Business systems implementation
• Hands-on leadership across production / operations
• Technology, CI, new machines, automation - GMP
• Lean Six Sigma and other best practice methodologies
• Strong leadership on regulations and compliance processes

• This role holds end‑to‑end accountability for quality, compliance, governance and continuous improvement across the manufacturing operation.
• Owning and leading the business's Quality Management System (QMS), ensuring it is robust, current and aligned with customer expectations, regulatory requirements and overall business strategy
• Developing, implementing and maintaining quality policies, procedures and standards to ensure products consistently meet specification, safety and performance requirements
• Acting as the primary point of contact for external regulatory bodies, leading third‑party audits including ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001
• Coordinating and governing all ISO compliance requirements, ensuring audit readiness, effective controls and zero major non‑conformances
• Working closely with suppliers to resolve quality issues, improve consistency and strengthen quality feedback loops across the supply chain
• Partnering with operational leaders to embed high standards across production, balancing quality integrity with commercial delivery
• Identifying gaps where new procedures are required and leading their development, implementation and training
• Providing structured, meaningful quality and compliance reporting to senior leadership to support decision‑making as the business scales

You will be well suited to this role if you bring:

• Proven experience within manufacturing quality and compliance
• Strong working knowledge of ISO 9001, with exposure to ISO 14001 and related standards
• Experience owning, improving and governing a Quality Management System
• Confidence leading audits, investigations and corrective actions