Senior Quality Manager

Senior Quality Manager Location: Golborne, Warrington (WA3) Permanent Up to £75,000 dependant on experience Benefits package; Generous pension contributions, Bonus, Life Assurance, Employee Christmas vouchers, PerkBox – High Street brand discounts, Long service awards, Subsidised onsite canteen. At ALPLA, we stand for high-quality plastic packaging throughout the world. Around 22,000 colleagues produce quality packaging for foodstuffs, cosmetics and industrial cleaning brands for many blue-chip clients across 182 ALPLA sites in 45 countries. Job Purpose: We are seeking a Senior Quality Manager to lead, oversee and continually enhance our Quality functions. This is a senior level role responsible for driving Quality performance across the business, championing continuous improvement, and embedding robust quality processes throughout manufacturing operations. This role will have 3 direct reports and 20 indirect reports. We are looking for a confident, influential leader with a strong manufacturing background, capable of managing and developing a team of QC Inspectors, Quality Coordinators, Quality Production Managers and Quality Systems teams. The ideal candidate will bring a balanced blend of Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Control (QC) experience, influence senior stakeholders, and guide the organisation toward best practice. This role places a significant emphasis on leadership, mentorship, and people development. Key Responsibilities: Senior Quality Manager * Leading and developing the Quality Team, providing coaching, mentoring and support to ensure high performance and capability across QA and QC functions. * Driving continuous improvement of quality processes, systems, and tools, ensuring alignment with applicable standards such as ISO 9001 -FSSC 22000. * Overseeing the Integrated Management System, ensuring changes are communicated and embedded across relevant stakeholders. * Managing quality inspection activity, ensuring accurate and timely reporting to internal and external stakeholders. * Investigating Customer Complaints and NCRs, identifying root causes and ensuring corrective actions are implemented to prevent recurrence. * Leading internal audit programmes and participating in third-party and customer audits. * Conducting risk-based assessments (e.g., FMEA) to identify and mitigate potential process failures. * Analysing Quality performance data, identifying trends, and recommending improvement actions. * Promoting collaboration, open communication and best practice sharing across the organisation. * Ensure robust corrective actions (RCA) are implemented, provide quality management training and support across the organisation. * Forms close working relationships with local and regional OPEX teams, regional Quality teams to ensure corporate systems and processes are embedded into daily work. Key Requirements: Senior Quality Manager * Strong background in a manufacturing environment ideally from a Plastics, Food or Pharmacutical background– this is essential and central to the role with a Blend of Quality Assurance and Quality Control experience. * Proven leadership capability, including team management, coaching and mentoring * Experience managing and improving Quality Management Systems. * Experience in root-cause analysis, lean manufacturing tools, internal audits, and risk-based quality methodologies (e.g., FMEA) * Degree Qualified in either a Science, Quality Management, or technical related degree. * Ideally you will hold or are working towards a lean six sigma qualification. Additional Information: * Life assurance from day one * Bonus scheme * Company Pension scheme * Subsidised canteen * Training and Development Support * Maternity and paternity pay scheme * Christmas vouchers for you and your children * Long service awards Our new perk box offering a wealth of benefits such as: - * Money off purchases such as food, drink, cinema, tickets, clothing, and homeware and so much more * A number of freebies across the perk box site, such as free coffees * Online access to free exercise and yoga classes with 24/7 access to qualified therapists Contact Nathan Turtington – UK Internal Recruiter for more information