About The Role

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Reporting to the Quality Manager the successful candidate will work within the Quality Team to ensure that day to day production operations are conducted in a quality focused way. This will involve meeting deadlines and ensuring both Food Safety and Customer Quality standards are maintained. Self-motivation, diligence and good communication skills are essential.

Hours of Work

14:00pm- 22:30pm
5 evenings – Sunday to Friday with one night off during the week

Job Responsibilities

Co-ordinate with cross functional teams to sustain and improve product quality.
Daily testing of finished product and the co-ordination of monthly micro testing programme.
Monitor HACCP implementation on a daily basis in accordance with Food Safety legislation.
Conduct monthly traceability checks and internal audits, hygiene checks and monthly hygiene and GMP audits take appropriate action when issues are identified.
Assist in writing KPI reports
Investigate non-conforming product and customer complaints
Assist with QAS generation for online specification systems and offline data sheets.
Support and participate in customer audits
Monitoring of Suppliers and issue of non-conforming reports.
Liaising with specialist contractors and service providers e.g. Pest Control, Hygiene teams, calibration where appropriate
Assisting with the development and implementation of quality control policies and procedures.
Ensure failures and issues are documented, tracked and reported in a timely manner
Conduct routine Quality Control Checks across the site to verify compliance with specifications
Any other ad hoc duties as and when required

Qualifications & Experience

2- 4 years’ experience in a QA Food manufacturing role
Working knowledge of the Food Industry and HACCP
Working knowledge of online specifications
Third level qualification in a food science, food technology or science
Ability to work on one’s own initiative
Experience implementing, monitoring and improving quality controls.
You have strong attention to detail & excellent written and oral skills

Personal Attributes

Passion for food and quality
To be assertive and decisive yet calm and approachable
You must be flexible and have ability to adapt to new challenges to meet the business needs