Quality Manager
Hartley People
Co. Tipperary
Our client, a regulated manufacturing company based in Co. Tipperary are looking for a Quality Manager to join their team. The Role: Drive and implement plant wide Process & Quality System Improvements. Lead the HACCP team for the purpose of ensuring a fully integrated food safety business model drives the operations. Be the key challenging food safety player during the introduction of new products and new engineering processes/equipment. Manage the Quality Assurance team to ensure optimum performance. Continuous measurement and gap analysis of business processes to ensure compliance to food safety and food quality standards. Manage the Risk Assessment Programme for Raw Materials, Suppliers, process activities and new process introduction within the production facility. Possess a probing and investigative mind-set in the investigation of customer/supplier complaints and adopt a pro-active approach in the prevention of customer complaints. Manage measure and advice on accepted protocol within the production environment for the prevention of pathogenic activity. Manage the Quality Department to ensure the customers specification/requirements are fully met by the production facility. Develop and implement QAS during the New Product Development process, support factory trials whilst ensuring the consistent manufacture of products to agreed specification post launch. Implementing Quality improvement initiatives in both manufacturing and business processes via the internal audit system.Ensure close out of internal and external audits as priority. Ensure suppliers are effectively approved for company use in terms of technical, commercial and best for purpose through effective use of risk assessment and audit. Customer Interface on Quality improvements & corrective action support on a proactive basis. Developing and managing cost of Quality programme. Driving root cause / corrective actions reviews. Development and reporting of Key Process Indicators for Quality Performance. Proactive Quality engineering support for new Product Introductions. Any other Quality related task as assigned by the Management Team. Driving Customer Quality issues back through Product Design Cycle. The P erson: Minimum of 7 years’ experience in the Food or Pharma industries. Minimum of Diploma in Food Science or Quality related discipline. Possess an analytical mind-set for the purpose of solving problems using well proven strategic approaches to identifying resolution. Be a natural leader who desires to bring out the best in people, possessing good interpersonal. Communication and influencing skills. Be a self-starter, work under own initiative, good listener, assertive and highly motivated. Clear demonstration of an ability to provide guidance and motivation to others. Develop strong relationships with all other Departments such as Production, Engineering, NPD and Sales and use these platforms to allow for Technical Strategies to develop and grow. Good PC skills in both Word Processing and Spreadsheet programs is essential. Familiarity with both presentation applications and database applications would be an advantage. High energy, team player with strong record of meeting goals and objectives and the ability to effectively manage a team. Hartley People Recruitment work to the highest ethical standards within our industry and we value the trust that you place in us when you send your CV. We can provide a full consultation in confidence and we guarantee that your CV will not be sent to any of our clients without your prior consent. For immediate consideration please call Pairic on 051-878813 or email your CV in response to this job posting. Hartley People also recruit for similar roles such as Analytical Chemist, Quality Control Manager, Quality Control Technician, Quality Assurance Technician, New Product Development Manger, Quality Systems Manager, Formulation Scientist, Development Technologist.
2050 days ago