Quality Manager (Wine Jobs: Management & Administration)

Full Time

  Accolade Wines UK

  Bristol, England

Uncork your Potential

Accolade Wines is the world’s leading provider of New World premium, commercial and value wines – our Hardys brand is the most powerful Australian wine brand in the world! We sell our wines in over 100 countries and have more than 1,600 dedicated employees in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Europe, Asia, North America and South Africa and … we make some of the world’s best known brands!

In this role

You will be required to provide a pro-active technical service to fulfil regulatory, industry & customer requirements across all aspects of AW’s bulk wine procurement, filling & distribution activities, with emphasis on ensuring compliance to all relevant legislation, code of practice and international standards, and on setting, measuring & continually improving product safety, quality & environmental credentials across the supply chain. You must continuously challenge, innovate and improve the department performance through the development of a Lean Culture and operational philosophy.

Key tasks will include

  • Act as a primary contact with external regulatory agencies, trade associations and technical colleagues to maintain an up-to-date knowledge of all national & international legislative and code of practice factors impinging on products sold by AW
  • Ensure compliance of all products sold by AW to all relevant regulatory requirements relating to their safety, origin, composition, quality, packaging, and presentation
  • Ensure UK packaging site compliance to recognised industry and customer food safety,  quality, and environmental standards (e.g. BRC, ISO 9000 & ISO 14001)
  • Pursue regular benchmarking against comparable UK and worldwide operations.
  • Ensure that all global risk reports and policies in relation to quality are relevant and functional. Working in conjunction with environmental and safety depts. to ensure a standard approach to risk management
  • Co-ordinate an ongoing participative training programme for site personnel to promote ‘Best Practice’ principles for wine handling and packaging, including an ‘ownership’ approach to all aspects of Quality
  • Enforce product and operational standards for suppliers, transporters of bulk & packaged wine and suppliers of packaging materials using a combination of AW Codes of Practice, supplier self assessments, product specifications, supplier certificates of analysis and in-house product analysis backed up with a controlled non-conformance system
  • Co-ordinate an ongoing programme of audits of key suppliers of bulk and packaged wine and packaging materials.

To succeed, the essential knowledge & skills are

Functional

  • Technical Ability :

Fully understand the philosophy of all control systems within manufacturing and  retain and utilise this knowledge and skill

  • Safety Awareness: Demonstrates health and safety understanding and compliance
  • IT Systems:

Relevant IT system knowledge.

  • Analytical Ability & Decision Making:

Ability to obtain information and identify key subjects required to understand strategic issues.

  • Lean Processes:

Understanding of Lean processes

Behavioural

  • Builds Productive Working Relationships: Works as effective team member, leading, guiding & inspiring others
  • Communications: Communicates well at all levels: share ideas and contribute
  • Initiative Oriented: Take the initiative to problem solve, challenge & improve to deliver the agreed targets
  • Planning & Organisation: Excellent planning and organisational skills.
  • Creativity & Innovation: Ability to generate innovative solutions to work situation
  • Professional & Emotional Maturity: Professional approach, demonstrating flexibility and ownership.
  • Able to work well under pressure
  • Demonstrates enthusiasm and is self motivated
  • Leadership skills: Strong leadership and Management Ability

Ideally you will have this experience..

  • 3-5 years experience of food or beverage manufacture/packaging operations in a technical or production role.
  • BRC experience

..And these qualifications

  • Bachelors Degree - Qualified in Science or Engineering
  • Diploma - completed

How To Apply

https://jobs.accolade-wines.com/job/Bristol-Quality-Manager-Bristol/412177400/

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