Quality Group Leader

Join Our Technical Team at The Compleat Food Group!

We’re looking for a motivated and detail-focused Quality Group Leader, to lead our team of Quality Control Technicians. In this key role, you’ll support our commitment to compliance with Group, Customer, and BRC standards while driving continuous improvement across the business. You'll play a vital part in upholding our due diligence processes and ensuring product quality at every step.

The Group Quality Leader will be responsible for maintaining, updating, and effectively implementing the Poole Bakery Food Safety and Quality Plans in line with customer requirements and legislative standards. This role will also lead, manage and motivate the Quality Control Technicians to ensure high standards across the factory.

At The Compleat Food Group, we’re proud to be a food business built on purpose and passion. Formed in 2021, we’re on a mission to create

Food to Feel Good – great quality, tasty and affordable food that people love to eat.

We’re home to some of the UK’s most exciting and loved food brands, including Wall’s Pastry, Pork Farms, Wrights, The Real Yorkshire Pudding Co., unearthed, Vadasz, Squeaky Bean, Palace Culture, and Harvey & Brockless. Alongside our branded portfolio, we’re a leading supplier of delicious own‑label pastry, sweet bakery, party food, olives and antipasti, added‑value egg products, continental meats, dips and sauces and plant‑based food to the UK’s major retailers, as well as across food service.

With over 6,000 talented colleagues across 17 sites, and an annual turnover of £1.3bn, we’re united by a shared ambition to shape the future of food for the better.

We are backed by European private equity firm PAI Partners.

Working Hours: 3 on 3 off: 6am to 6pm

Location: Poole

• Manage the shift QCTS to ensure effective: recruitment, personnel management, training and succession planning.
• Engage with site stakeholders and departments including HR, SHE, hygiene, process development, operations, planning, technical services, engineering and site services.
• Lead Shift Quality Meetings based on food safety and quality issues.
• Management of product surveillance, complaints, microbiological, chemistry, taste panel and environmental testing.
• Management of non‑conformity and control of out of specification product and materials.
• Concessions management.
• Manage artwork/packaging verification/approval, to ensure new artwork is compliant to customer and legal requirements.
• Manage Internal Audits and GMPs – Issue schedule based on risk assessment, assign audits, complete internal, system, process, traceability / mass balance, CCP and GMP audits as required.
• Manage technical quality equipment and consumables within budget.
• Generate and manage KPIs reports as required by the site, group, and customers.
• Traceability and Mass Balance – in compliance with customer requirements.
• Creation and maintenance of technical procedures as required.
• Complete validations and verifications.
• Support HACCP Team as required.
• Management of different audits, e.g. internal audits, quality system, fabrication, CCPs, traceability, mass balance, and GMP audits according to company schedule.
• Management of the FSA contacts and completion of export documentation.
• Site Lead on Internal Audits, Including process, traceability, fabrication, CCP, GMP.
• Site Lead on Validation.
• Drive factory standards to be audit ready all the time.
• Step down to provide quality control technician cover when needed.
• Any other tasks/projects delegated by Factory Technical Manager that are related to the job.

• Site Lead on QUID.
• Site Lead on Technical Projects including the implementation of new technologies on site.
• Site Lead on Microbiology and Testing.
• Complete Gap Analysis to customer, group and industry codes of practice.
• Be the site subject matter expert on: SUSSLE, Auto Coding, Weight Control.

• Minimum 5 years of experience in food industry
• Experience with working with Quality Management System
• Applied knowledge of quality assurance principles and GMP
• Validat…