Technical Administrator / QA - Ivybridge - £22,300 - £23,795
Monday to Friday - Day Based
My client, a successful FMCG company, is looking to recruit a Technical Administrator / QA / Quality Analyst to work at their award-winning company based in Ivybridge near Plymouth. The successful candidate's main purpose will be the maintenance of components of the company's positive release system to ensure that all products released meet all quality, food safety, and legal compliance set either by the company or external bodies. You will also be assisting in all areas of the Technical Function to ensure continued compliance throughout the factory. Working as part of a small team, you will report into the Technical Manager.
Main Responsibilities and Duties:
1. Assist in driving quality standards.
2. Assist in the TACCP procedure, ensuring all ingredients are appropriately risk assessed and the necessary outcomes are effectively communicated.
3. Maintain the supplier approval procedure.
4. Assist in the completion of hygiene and GMP audits.
5. Maintain the associated systems for audit production documentation, raising non-conformances, and following up on agreed actions.
6. Maintain the positive release procedure.
7. Assist in the collation, production, and presentation of weekly and monthly quality performance and analysis reports to management meetings.
8. Ensure due diligence assessments and validations are undertaken on first production runs and product launches.
9. Raise non-conformances and undertake investigation of root causes.
10. Ensure all equipment used throughout the factory is controlled, monitored, and suitable for use, including following calibration schedules.
11. Maintain the shelf life & quality assessment samples library.
12. Assist investigations of quality-related customer complaints where required, prepare technical reports detailing agreed corrective actions, prepare trending reports, and follow up on actions.
13. Support the Quality Assurance & Technical Co-Ordinators.
Key Skills Required:
1. Previous quality / technical skills gained working for a similar company e.g. food, drink, pharmaceutical.
2. Excellent written, IT, and verbal communication skills.
3. Knowledge and understanding of Health & Safety issues.
4. Ability to maintain high concentration skills.
5. Self-motivated, reliable, and enthusiastic.
This is a 37.5-40 hour permanent role and will suit a person with a keen interest in the food industry or a person that may have previously worked as a technical officer, quality administrator, QA, or food graduate. This role is commutable from Ivybridge, Totnes, Salcombe, Plymouth, Dartmouth, and Torquay.
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