* Location: Northfleet, Kent, United Kingdom
Prepworld is looking for a Quality Assurance Technologist on a Maternity Cover Contract until December 2025 on Day shift (Sunday to Wednesday).
The Quality Assurance Technologist is responsible for ensuring that all product and processes comply with food safety, legality, authenticity, and quality requirements throughout all stages of the production process.
* Monitoring and upholding all food safety and legal requirements.
* Assessing quality of fruit throughout the production process to ensure compliance with internal and customer specifications.
* Verifying Critical Control Points (CCPs) to ensure critical limits are being met.
* Conducting daily checks of factory processes and procedures to ensure compliance and good manufacturing practices are adhered to.
* Completing paperwork to a high level of accuracy to record daily QA tasks and audits.
* Understanding company policies and procedures to enable checking and improve compliance within production.
* Identifying and reporting any quality, food safety, or compliance concerns to QA Supervisors and Customer Technical Team as appropriate to enable quick rectification.
* Creating new programmes in the metal detectors and check weighers and troubleshooting issues during production.
* Conducting practical internal audits including CCP, GMP, Fabrication, Glass, and Hard Plastic.
* Collecting and registering product samples for microbiological testing.
* Following the sampling plan to correctly take and accurately register swabs, air plates, and water samples.
* Observing personal hygiene practices and reporting any non-conformance to procedures.
* Operating in a tidy, organised, and efficient manner to complete all QA operations and maintain order within the Technical office.
* Retrieving and collating paperwork to facilitate traceability requests.
* Completing and supporting Print Room operations as required.
* Conducting daily Taste Panels as required to support the Taste Panel Coordinator.
* Identifying areas for improvement proactively.
* Acting with the customer in mind.
* Providing support for the wider Technical Team as required.
Who we are looking for:
* Ability to read and write in English.
* (Preferable) experience in a High Care Food Industry Environment.
* (Preferable) experience working with fresh produce.
* Proactive individual with high energy.
* Patient and understanding.
* Ability to multitask and prioritise.
* (Preferable) ability to drive.
* (Preferable) experience in the food industry.
* (Preferable) experience with Print Room operations and printing/editing software.
What we provide in return:
* Wagestream (track your earnings and instantly access up to 50% of your money as you earn it, without waiting for payday).
* On-site parking with electric charge points.
* Fully paid for staff events.
* Staff restaurant serving heavily subsidised hot and cold food.
* Fruit pots on Wednesdays.
* Brand new facilities.
* A supportive team.
Hours and Days of Work: Sunday to Wednesday, 05:30 - 17:30.
Contract length: Until December 2025.
Pay: Starting at £11.90 per hour, paid weekly, climbing to £12.30 per hour after full training.
Location (please check you are able to commute): Unit K, Springhead Enterprise Park, Northfleet, Gravesend DA11 8HH.
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