Plant Quality Manager - Middelburg

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Are you ready to be part of a company that is shaping the future of food? At our client they're passionate about food and dedicated to delivering innovative, high-quality products to customers around the globe. As a world-class supplier of frozen potato products, they pride theirselves on commitment to sustainability, cutting-edge technology, and thepeople.

Whether you're in production, logistics, research, or customer service, our client offers a dynamic work environment where your skills and ideas can make a real impact. Join them to grow your career and be part of a team that's transforming the food industry!

• Motivate and provide guidance and direction to your hierarchical and functional teams to setting and meeting SMART targets and priorities
• Monitor your teams' performance and guide them to improvement - situational leadership.
• Network and build relationships across the plant to create involvement/collaboration and enable your teams' success.
• Safeguards product and process quality by ensuring compliance with operating standards.
• Responsible for hosting internal and external audits, as well as ensuring that effective action plans are developed and executed for any outages identified during these audits.
• Ensure products are tested and released according to specifications. Responsible for QC team.
• Monitors and audits adherence to standards and specifications through regular inspections and quality checks.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams, including Production, Technical Services, and Continuous Improvement, to implement and execute quality standards and specifications.
• Responsible for the implementation and monitoring of the HACCP program and be responsible for the HACCP team activities, ensuring alignment with the corporate standards.
• Ensures timely and effective resolution of quality incidents and complaints that arise from customers and consumers. Investigates and identifies the root causes and implements corrective and preventive actions.
• Implements quality improvement initiatives and best practices to minimize the occurrence of quality issues.
• Provides training and guidance to relevant stakeholders on quality incident management and prevention.
• Set up and manage teams to manage food and feed safety and quality at plant level.
• Responsible for the annual quality management review.
• Collaborates with quality managers from other factories for benchmarking and standardization of the quality systems.

• Minimum Bachelor in Food safety, Food Technology, Quality Management or a related field, or equal level reached through similar education and relevant job experience
• A minimum of 8 years relevant experience related to managing food and feed safety and quality, preferably in Food Industry, including in a food manufacturing environment.
• A minimum of 2 years' experience in people management in a matrix organisation.
• Excellent knowledge of food and feed safety and quality related topics such as but not limited to: quality control and quality assurance; potato quality; track & trace; laboratory testing; automated measurement and control loops; sensory science; allergens; contaminants; (micro)biology; hygiene; HACCP; and hygienic design.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills & strong tactics (e.g. for handling conflicting opinions) to manage relationships with internal and external parties in all layers of the factory.
• Read, write and speak fluently Dutch and English. Understands German.
• Self-driven team player
• Self-Supporting.

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We offer you a challenging job in a dynamic and growing organization in the food industry. We challenge you to grow in the same way as our company, where development is key. We thrive in a culture defined by our values: Integrity, Teamwork, Inclusion, Drive for Results and Empowerment.

• A salary, based on experience
• A completely contributory pension
• 25 days off + ATV
• A Bonus scheme