Food Manufacturing Quality Manager - Alexandria

Responsibilities:

Quality managers work across many industries and sectors. You may work as either a generalist or specialist. You'll use a variety of measures and management systems, such as total quality management, to carry out your role.

Your responsibilities will vary depending on the sector you work in. However, as a quality manager you'll typically need to:

• Devise and establish a company's quality procedures, standards and specifications
• Review customer requirements and make sure they are met
• Work with purchasing staff to establish quality requirements from external suppliers
• Set standards for quality as well as health and safety
• Make sure that manufacturing or production processes meet international and national standards
• Look at ways to reduce waste and increase efficiency
• Define quality procedures in conjunction with operating staff
• Set up and maintain controls and documentation procedures
• Monitor performance by gathering relevant data and produce statistical reports
• Review existing policies and make suggestions for changes and improvements and how to implement them
• Measure performance and identify any areas of weakness, recommending and implementing improvements
• Assess the effectiveness of changes made
• Use relevant quality tools and make sure managers and other staff understand how to improve the business
• Make sure the company is working as effectively as possible to keep up with competitors
• Train and manage a team of quality control technicians.