Factory Quality Manager - Corby

The role: We are looking for a Factory Quality Manager for Corby. You will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day management of quality and food safety in the factory, mainly ensuring strict compliance with the Weetabix Standard for Food Safety, the Weetabix Quality Management System (WQMS), and meeting BRC, legal, and customer requirements.

The Recipe:

• Build and promote a proactive Food Safety Culture and actively share best practices.


• Coach teams on quality and food safety standards to ensure full understanding and accurate implementation in alignment with company procedures and systems.


• Drive quality improvement through effective Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and corrective action, reviewing trend data, leading projects, and implementing Food Safety Initiatives. Develop, implement, and maintain new procedures in collaboration with key stakeholders (SOPs, quality checks, quality and food safety documentation).


• Lead WSFS, BRC, and Retailer audits for the factory, and oversee the internal audit program. This includes addressing non-conformance issues with effective corrective actions and closure.


• Handle daily quality issues, provide recommendations, and escalate as necessary. Manage food safety incidents, including stock holds, collating timelines, making recommendations, facilitating RCA, and implementing corrective action.


• Supervise factory hygiene through inspections, collaboration with Cleaning & Pest Contractors, planning shutdown cleans, and implementing corrective actions. This also involves managing the pest control program.


• Conduct complaint investigations, including trend analysis, RCA, and implementation of corrective actions.


• Provide support for factory trials to ensure that quality and food safety standards are maintained.


• Manage equipment calibration.
  
  Strong alignment to the Weetabix values


• Always curious to find new and better ways of working


• Always curious to finding new ways to do business!


• Ability to demonstrate how you keep up to date in your field of expertise.


• Great influencing and people management skills


• Resilient and adaptable to change


• Great attention to detail and ability to follow processes and instructions


• Effective leadership qualities


• Positive and engaging attitude


• Self-starter


Must haves

• Previous experience in a factory / quality environment


• Leading a team with proven results


• Experience of implementing standards, processes and procedures


• Numerate


Nice to haves

• Experience within Food Manufacturing
  
  We are always looking to enhance our current teams with diverse skills, experience and backgrounds; so if your skills and experience look a little different and you believe you can add value to the role and/or Weetabix, then we would love you to drop us your CV or apply! No candidate will ever meet 100% of the desired qualifications, skills and/ or experience, but we are ambitious to attract the right talent for how we want our business to grow.


You might not be right for the role, yet but we are always looking for talented people!

Competitive Salary

Bonus: 7.5% (Subject to terms and conditions of Company Bonus Scheme Policy)

Private Medical: BUPA Single, Couple, or Single Parent cover (with an option to upgrade to a Family cover at additional costs)

Pension: Weetabix WGPPP at 1:2 ee:er ratio up to 6% employee and 12% Weetabix

Notice period: 3 months' notice employer and employee

Holiday: 25 days + Statutory Bank Holidays

Life Assurance: Weetabix Non-Pension members: 3 x Pensionable Earnings. Weetabix Pension Members: 5 x Pensionable Earnings

Flexible benefits: available via our Weetaflex site - Cycle to Work scheme, Dental Plan, Health Cash Plan, Critical Illness Cover, Travel Insurance, Monthly Retail Cards, discounts etc

Employee Discount - Discounts through Weetaflex site and Discounts on Weetabix Products

We value your work-life balance

We offer core hours of 10am-4pm to provide flexibility in your personal life (actual start times will be determined by the current pattern of the team). During the summer months on a Friday, these hours are shortened to 10am-2pm allowing you to enjoy the good weather (when we get it!).

Our flexible benefits

Allow you to pick and choose what matters most to you, so you can tailor your benefits to your needs, including options such as buying /selling/ carry over holidays, Adventure passes, Dental insurance, Health assessments and Health Cash plan, Cycle to work scheme, Critical illness cover, Salary sacrifice car scheme (electric of course!, Gym discounts, and much more!

Additional benefits

In addition to all the good stuff, you can also benefit from;

24/EAP and online GP appointments

Development

The opportunities for personal development and progression are endless and only limited by what you want to achieve!

Casual clothing

And when it comes to clothing, we have a "business appropriate" dress code, meaning you can wear what you like unless you're meeting with customers.

Phew and that's not all! You'll also be able to eat as much Weetabix options when in the office and enjoy discounted products, an onsite canteen and quiet rooms for some breathing space :)