Food Safety And Quality Assurance Manager

Job Title: Food Safety and Quality Assurance Manager Industry: Manufacturing Job #: FSQAMD Location: Devon This position's primary focus will be: To ensure FSSC22000 ongoing certification and to continuously improve the system's effectiveness Management of the Lab and Product Quality.
Responsible to implement, monitor, audit and manage the Environmental Management system based on (ISO14001) principles.
Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to: ·       Conduct high standard internal audits against the: FSSC22000 standard, IP Handling and Environmental audits.
Report writing and effective corrective action.
Feedback to management ·       External audits by customers and certification bodies are successful to achieve certification and supplier approval.
·       Management of the Lab, ensure 100% efficiency of lab equipment, monitoring of quality, record keeping, statistics etc ·       Daily reporting on product conformance.
·       Sample Analysis at External and Internal labs and the interpretation of results ·       Liaise with customers on Complaints, do root cause analysis, identify Corrective and Preventive actions, follow up on effectiveness and draw up graphs ·       Training on FSSC22000 and Environmental Management ·       Communication: Meetings and info sessions ·       Document and Record Control ·       Compile Business Review paper and other reports for evaluation by senior management Skills & Qualifications: ·       At least 5 year's experience in establishing and implementing a GFSI system.
·       As the Food Safety Manager, achieved a GFSI certification ·       Outstanding Internal auditing skills on FSSC22000(or any other GFSI System).
Internal auditing experience on ISO14001 will be to the applicant's advantage.
·       Assertive and Results driven ·       Punctual on achieving target dates ·       Excellent Time management ·       Efficient, well organised and approach tasks in a structured way ·       MS Office (Excel, Powerpoint,Word) ·       Management and Leadership skills ·       Lab management experience ·       Conflict management skills ·       Report writing skills ·       Problem solving ·       Drivers licence