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Assistant Ripening & Quality Manager
Mission Produce UK —Dartford
- £38,000 a year
- Full-time
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office
- Bachelor's degree
- Free parking
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- Full-time
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- Communication skills
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- Quality control
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- Annual leave
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- Full-time
- Employee discount
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Assistant Ripening & Quality Manager

Mission Produce UK
Dartford

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Job details

Permanent | Full-time
£38,000 a year
6 days ago

Benefits

Free parking
Company pension
On-site parking

Qualifications

Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Office
Quality assurance
Bachelor's degree
HACCP
Communication skills

Full job description

Job Summary

Lead quality and ripening operations, managing ripening plans, stock decisions, and shopfloor issues while driving KPI performance, team execution, and continuous improvement.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Manage day-to-day quality functions across inloading, ripening.
Execute and monitor ripening regimes, ensuring plans are followed and deviations escalated appropriately.
Make informed quality decisions on stock usage, rotation, and waste to maximise returns while maintaining compliance.
Capture and record quality performance data at intake and operational level, identifying emerging issues and trends.
Provide hands-on leadership, supervision, and mentoring of the Ripening team, ensuring daily tasks are clearly understood and completed.
Allocate daily resources effectively to meet operational and technical priorities.
Act as the first point of escalation for shopfloor quality issues, resolving where possible and escalating when required.
Assist with technical and ripening trials, ensuring accurate execution and data collection. Manage shelf-life performance and support benchmarking activities by ensuring accurate data capture and sample handling.
Feed operational insights and performance data into the Quality Manager to support reporting, KPI tracking, and improvement plans.
Identify practical improvement opportunities on the shopfloor and support their implementation.
Work closely with Production, Technical, and Quality teams to ensure alignment between plans and execution.
Lead daily KPI reviews on the shopfloor, ensuring performance against defined KPIs is clearly communicated and understood.

Minimum Qualifications & Requirements

Minimum 4 years of prior work experience in a Fresh Produce Technical/Quality function.
Highly proficient in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel, with the ability to troubleshoot issues, develop new and adapt existing spreadsheets.
Ideally, an understanding of Microsoft D365.
ERP implementation skills.
Able to work and make decisions with a sense of urgency, adhering to tight schedules and simultaneously managing several projects.
Some leadership with the ability to be hands-on, work independently, and remain self-motivated.
Able to understand the company’s organizational structure, operating philosophy, culture and lines of responsibility, authority, and communication in both the United Kingdom and United States operations.
Proven ability to be result focused, metric driven, and translate priorities and actions into measurable results.
Excellent problem-solving skills with a strong ability to effectively identify problems by framing issues, leveraging data, and developing and implementing solutions. JD Reference Number JD-QR-002 Version Number 1
Customer service driven.
Analytical: Strong ability to independently evaluate trends, explore areas for improvement, interpret large amounts of data, and provide possible solutions.
Organization: Ability to stay focused on prioritized tasks, while handling emergency situations during times of high stress or heavy workload.
Technical Skills: Assess own strengths and weaknesses, pursue training and development opportunities, strive to continuously build knowledge and skills, share expertise with others.
Communication: Excellent communication skills, including an ability to adapt communication style to suit different audiences.
Teamwork: Balance team and individual responsibilities for group efficiencies. Exhibit objectivity and openness to others’ views, able to work effectively with all levels of management to obtain team objectives.
Quality: Must demonstrate accuracy, thoroughness, and commitment to complete tasks correctly the first time.

Pay: £38,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Company pension
Free parking
On-site parking

Ability to commute/relocate:

Dartford DA2 6QB: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

fresh produce: 4 years (required)

Work authorisation:

United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person

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