Job Description
Role: Centre Support Manager - Food Quality
Location: Kitt Green, Wigan UK
Working hours: Monday-Friday 8-4:30pm
Who are we?
We are Kraft-Heinz Kitt Green - Home of our world-famous Heinz Baked Beans, "Nourishing the Nation" and in production since 1959! You will be joining one of the world's best loved Food & Beverage brands, as well as one of the most iconic FMCG factories in Europe.
Purpose of role:
You'll be leading efforts to ensure Food Safety and Quality (FSQ) for our Kitt Green site by making data-driven, pragmatic, and timely decisions. You'll always champion continuous improvement, maintaining the highest standards that protect the Kraft-Heinz brand while supporting the site.
- Risk Assessment & Leadership: Address quality and technical issues throughout the manufacturing process, from raw materials to finished products.
- Quality Standards & Continuous Improvement: Drive the achievement of quality standards through regular review and enhancement of the Quality System at our Kitt Green site.
- Quality Control Framework: Develop and maintain frameworks to accurately identify and control the quality status of finished goods.
- Finished Product Assessment: Lead on the assessment and release of all finished products, ensuring compliance before customer distribution or appropriate downgrading.
- Quality critical metrics: Use key performance indicators to reduce incidents and risks, driving continuous improvement.
- Compliance Maintenance: Ensure compliance with internal and external food manufacturing standards, maintaining necessary accreditations.
- Team Leadership: Lead FSQ team members to achieve objectives.
Come and kick-start your career with one of the world's best loved Food & Beverage brands at Kraft-Heinz!
What you will have:
- Degree in a science-related field or significant experience in the food safety sector.
- Proactive & dedicated approach with a drive for making impactful improvements.
- Strong communication and influencing skills with the ability to challenge and improve processes.
- Analytical problem solver with a talent for problem-solving and adapting quickly to change.
- Confident decision-maker, grounded in data and evidence.
What we can offer:
- A competitive salary + annual bonus of up to 20%.
- 27 days annual leave- plus Bank Holidays, with options to 'buy' additional annual leave.
- Tusker Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme - no deposit required. Insurance, servicing and maintenance included.
- Cycle to Work scheme.
- Discounts on gym memberships.
- Company matches and exceeds your pension contributions (up to 7%).
- 12x Life Assurance.
- Private Medical Insurance.
- Critical Illness Insurance.
- Savings on MOT- servicing and repairs at Halfords Autocentre.
- Savings on Vodafone pay monthly deals.
- And much more!
Location(s)
Kitt Green
Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes.
What We Do
At the heart of this journey is our ambition to create an enterprise where powerful AI solutions augment humans and where small mission-based teams are in relentless pursuit to solve tangible problems for our consumers, customers, and the enterprise. That ambition requires us to create a modern cloud and data ecosystem - a one of its kind that becomes the neural network of our company. We want you to bring your tech-self to us. We use Python, R, Spark, React, Tableau, Snowflake, Azure, and others to solve the problem on hand. In-turn, you can look forward to high-impact challenges, no bureaucracy, entrepreneurial small teams, and a unique opportunity to create and build something bold, awesome, and impactful – all while honoring our 150-year heritage and a portfolio of 200 iconic and emerging brands!
Why Work With Us
Our ambition is to become a best-in-class Digital leader by making data-driven investments that drive smarter business decisions. You’ll invent the next wave of augmented intelligence products where software & humans work side-by-side to rethink every aspect of our company. You’ll make an imprint & leave your legacy on every part of our business.
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