As Quality Manager at Refresco Milton Keynes, you will be a senior member of the technical team contributing to strategic plans and developments. In this critical role, you will make a significant contribution to taking the site forward by driving forward the quality agenda, leading new product implementation improvements, and maintaining and improving audit results.

You will be part of the strong site leadership team, reporting into the general manager. You will be leading, coaching, and developing the site quality team (covering Implementations / Laboratory /Factory Quality).

Site Quality Manager - Refresco, Milton Keynes

Competitive salary and benefits, annual bonus and company pension scheme

This is an exciting time to join the MK team as the site is currently undergoing serious investment in our people, infrastructure and product development. Refresco is always growing, always innovating, always changing.

About the Role of Quality Manager

You will be accountable for the implementation of our quality agenda at Milton Keynes, complying with legal, group and customer requirements and working closely with the site team to ensure that all aspects are performed in line with standards.

Key Responsibilities as Quality Manager

• Ensure the site is safe, legally compliant, meeting all internal and external standards including delivering excellent audit results from a food safety perspective
• Lead your site quality team, developing, coaching, empowering
• Leading the site quality agenda on the site and engaging the all colleagues on the site in quality, increasing their knowledge of processes and best practice
• Building great relationships with external customer food technical and quality teams
• Ensure due diligence can be demonstrated to satisfy the requirements of external agencies
• Reporting internal Refresco KPIs to the site management team
• Leading the product/packaging implementation technologists and operational teams to ensure that the launch and trial of new products is completed in a timely manner, meeting food safety, legal and customer requirements and that process changes are evaluated, risk assessed, validated and documented.

About You

If you match this profile we would like to hear from you:

• You will need experience of leading a quality team with a clear vision, coaching and empowering your team
• You will need FMCG industry sector experience preferably in food and / or drink
• A degree in a Science or Food Technology is preferred or 5+ years industry experience in a similar technical/quality role
• You will need to be fully familiar with modern manufacturing methodologies, and show that you have delivered new product implementations and have a successful internal / external customer audit record
• You will have experience and feel comfortable in a fast moving, fast changing 24/7 manufacturing environment with many SKU's, new product implententations and new automated engineering equipment

At Refresco we really believe that our values have helped and will continue to help us be successful. Our values are - agile, excellence, responsible, passionate and entrepreneurship - open this link for more details - https://www.refresco.co.uk/uk/about/our-values

About Refresco

Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We're passionate about producing tasty, refreshing drinks and we’re thirsty for more and growing fast. We’re a global business and invested £1.25 billion in expanding our manufacturing footprint to make us the largest independent bottler of soft drinks and fruit juices in the world. We currently produce 14 billion litres from over 78 manufacturing plants in Europe, North America and Australia and we’re only just getting started…

Our UK Business has six manufacturing plants providing a great place to work for 1800 employees producing private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers including Tesco, ASDA, Morrison’s, Sainsbury’s, ALDI and Lidl. We also manufacture for branded customers such as Monster, Lucozade, Ocean Spray, Weetabix, Del Monte and Um Bongo. Whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards but they get where they need to be when they need to get there to meet the needs of our high profile customers.

Refresco believes that equal opportunity for all is fundamental to our company's values and all our applicants can expect fairness and transparency in our recruitment process.

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