Job Summary
The Quality Controller - Ripener plays a critical role in ensuring all produce dispatched from London Gateway Bananas meets customer requirements of safety, quality and legality.
Responsibilities
* To ensure all ripening duties are carried out daily.
* To ensure fruit meets customer colour & temperature specification on the day of delivery
* To ensure that the ripening rooms have been filled correctly to ensure correct ripening.
* To use keep Fips updated with the room usage & Ripening cycles.
* To ensure all product packaging and detail meets or exceeds the customer's and legal standards.
* Maintain an understanding of each customers labelling and packaging specifications.
* Ensure accuracy of date coding, barcoding and all other pack and box end labels information is correct.
* Ensure that the correct packaging is being used as per customer requirements.
* Responsible for green / goods in checks
* To ensure any concerns are communicated back to QC / Ripener and / or General Manager, with product.
* To work safely and report any hazards or near misses to the line Shift Supervisor
* To work efficiently and effectively ensuring that you contribute to the daily Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) of the department as set by the Quality Control Manager and the needs of the business.
* To maintain high levels of health, safety, hygiene and housekeeping
* To clearly communicate between all colleagues in your team and your Line Managers in a timely manner.
* To use all equipment in a correct and safe manner
Job Context/Working Environment:
* Warehouse based
* Core working hours, on a shift system
* Requirement to work additional shifts to cover for holidays & sickness
* Flexibility is expected during peak periods e.g. Christmas, Valentine's Day, Mothers' Day, Easter etc.
* Working to strict deadlines in a time-critical environment
* Working in a cold environment for extended periods of time
* Work involves lifting boxes up and down from the height of a stack of product in excess of two metres
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £14.50 per hour
Expected hours: 33 – 44 per week
Benefits:
* Canteen
* Casual dress
* Company pension
* Free parking
* Health & wellbeing programme
* On-site gym
* On-site parking
Experience:
* ripening bananas : 1 year (preferred)
* QC: 1 year (preferred)
Work Location: In person