Job Description
Quality Assurance Technician
Job Title: Quality Assurance Technician
Industry: Food Manufacturing
Key Responsibilities:
Ensure Food Safety and Health Compliance
Understand, observe and help ensure compliance with Food Safety and Health and Safety rules and be aware of the safety of self and others to promote a safe working environment.
Monitor Operational Procedures
Monitor operational procedures, CCPs and GMP and advise Manufacturing, Engineering and Technical management, where appropriate to ensure they are aware of any situations where products and/or activities are outside defined parameters, and where improvements in product and process quality could be made.
Provide Quality Advice
Evaluate site data and information to provide advice to Technical and Operations Management so that informed business decisions can be made.
Manage Daily QA Tasks
Manage daily, weekly and monthly QA tasks.
Complete Traceability Exercises
Complete customer complaints traceability and internal traceability exercises
Training and Re-Briefs
Perform staff training/re-briefs following documentation updates, complaints and non-conformances.
Support the Production Team
Support the production team in their handling and testing of finished product.
Monitor Quality Control Points
Monitoring CCP (metal detection) for compliance, and other quality control points
Cleanliness and Audits
Checking cleanliness levels & performing audits.
Business Sustainability
Contribute to the business' Sustainability strategy by delivering your Brighter Future Sustainability objectives.
Essential Requirements:
degree qualified or equivalent in a food science-related subject or previous experience in a food manufacturing environment within a similar role
Good knowledge of GMP, practical application of HACCP, process and product standards.
Desirable qualifications; Level 2 Food Hygiene Certification, Level 2 HACCP Certification, Trained auditing qualification.
Have basic PC literacy. Be familiar with use of both "word" and "excel spreadsheet" documents.