Trainee Deputy Quality Manager (Graduate Opportunity)

If you're a recent graduate looking to kick start a career in food safety, quality assurance, or manufacturing operations, this role offers a rare chance to step straight into a position with real responsibility, rapid learning, and clear progression.

As Trainee Deputy Quality Manager, you'll be right at the heart of how a manufacturing site maintains high standards, meets customer expectations, and keeps products safe.

You'll gain hands on experience across food safety systems, auditing, customer communication, supplier management, and continuous improvement-all of which are highly sought after skills in the industry.

It's a role that will stretch you, develop you, and set you up for a strong career path in Quality, Technical, or Operations.

You'll work closely with the Quality Manager, taking ownership of tasks that make a real impact on the business:

• Creating and maintaining packaging specifications
• Completing supplier audit questionnaires
• Managing customer complaints and responses
• Handling raw material rejections and credits
• Supporting compliance with BRCGS standards
• Carrying out internal audits across the site
• Working with pest control partners
• Overseeing calibration activities
• Delivering hygiene inductions and refreshers

This variety means no two days will be the same. You'll build a broad skill set quickly and gain exposure to multiple departments.

This role is ideal for a graduate who is:

• Organised and able to prioritise
• Eager to learn within a manufacturing environment.
• Confident communicating with people at all levels
• Comfortable solving problems and making decisions
• Interested in food safety, quality, or manufacturing
• Ready to work in a fast paced environment

If you've studied Food Science, Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Health, Business, or any STEM subject, you'll find your knowledge transfers well-but the role is open to any graduate with the right mindset.

You'll develop:

• A deep understanding of food safety and quality systems
• Experience with audits, compliance, and customer standards
• Confidence in managing issues, incidents, and improvements
• Strong communication and leadership skills
• A foundation for progression into Quality Manager, Technical Manager, or Operational Excellence roles.

You'll also be joining a business that values integrity, teamwork, continuous improvement, and personal development-a great environment for someone starting their career.

Monday to Friday, 08:30 to 17:00