QA Manager

QA Manager - Food Manufacturing

Northwich

Permanent Monday - Friday

35,000 - 42,000

Are you a quality champion with a passion for food safety and continuous improvement? This is your opportunity to take ownership of site-wide Quality Assurance and play a pivotal role in elevating standards across a fast-paced food manufacturing environment.

We're looking for a QA Manager who thrives on problem-solving, sharp thinking, and leading teams to deliver excellence every day.

What you'll be doing as the QA Manager:

• Take full ownership of the QMS, ensuring systems, documentation, and processes are continuously improved, up to date, and audit-ready.
• Lead non-conformance management from investigation to closure - identifying root causes, driving corrective actions, and reducing repeat issues.
• Streamline and simplify processes, removing complexity and championing smarter, leaner ways of working across QA and Production teams.
• Conduct robust risk assessments, ensuring proactive management of food safety, quality, and compliance across all product categories.
• Raise GMP standards on site by coaching teams, leading internal audits, and embedding best practice in every operational area.
• Oversee allergen management, ensuring controls, validations, and verifications meet both customer and legislative expectations.
• Leverage digital systems to enhance quality performance - experience with Food Connected is a strong advantage.
• Lead, train, and inspire the QA team, creating a high-performance culture focused on ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.

What you'll need for the QA Manager:

• Experience with in a UK food manufacturing technical or quality role is essential to be considered
• Experience with supply food products to retailers is essential to be considered
• Experience with allergens is highly advantageous
• Full UK working rights are needed. No visas available

If you believe you have the skills and personality to fit these requirements please either apply via this advert or call Henderson Brown on (phone number removed) for more information.