Quality Assurance Manager
Cranswick Gourmet Kitchen is supplying high-quality cooked products to a number of market-leading customers. The goal of our food manufacturing site, Cranswick Gourmet Kitchen, is to produce quality cooked food for market-leading customers. As a team, we aim to create a culture where everything we do is to the highest possible standard, and we are looking for like-minded individuals to be a part of this.
We are looking to recruit a QA Manager to work Monday to Friday 07:30-16:30. The successful candidate will lead the Quality Assurance team and provide day-to-day technical management across the factory, ensuring products are manufactured safely, legally and to the required quality standards. The role is responsible for developing QA capability, maintaining audit readiness and supporting operational teams to deliver customer and business requirements through a strong food safety and quality culture.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, manage and develop the Quality Assurance team, ensuring appropriate factory coverage, effective workload allocation and clear accountability across all shifts.
- Provide visible day-to-day technical leadership within manufacturing areas, ensuring product safety, legality, quality and integrity requirements are consistently maintained.
- Ensure all factory activities comply with the site Quality Management System, relevant legislation, customer requirements, retailer Codes of Practice and applicable food safety standards.
- Manage the completion and effectiveness of routine QA activities, including GMP audits, process verification, traceability checks, taste and quality assessments, paperwork reviews and product release controls.
The successful candidate will have:
- Good working knowledge of food safety, quality, legality and integrity requirements within a chilled food-manufacturing environment.
- Strong working knowledge of factory-based Quality Management Systems and practical QA controls.
- Understanding of HACCP principles, food safety risk assessment, allergen management and microbiological controls.
- Understanding of GMP, internal auditing, corrective action, root cause analysis and preventative action.
A full job description is available upon request.
To apply, please submit your cover letter and CV to: [email protected]
If you are an internal applicant, please ensure you have made your line manager aware before applying and confirm this when submitting your application
Closing date: 11th December 2026