Your main accountabilities will be to:
* Work alongside Production Operatives to ensure quality is a pivotal part of daily tasks including sharing your expertise to improve their understanding of food safety and quality.
* Monitor and educate production team members on the importance of technical paperwork and its correct completion.
* Address and/ or escalate quality or food safety concerns immediately to the appropriate level.
* Audit production processes to ensure packed product is always to the correct standard, thereby reducing waste and factory downtime.
* Support the quality auditing process for both internal and external audits.
* Work with the intake and process teams to ensure raw material meets the expected standards.
* Audit and guide Production Team members to maintain high GMP Standards.
* Audit against company and customer standards across the board.
* Ensure food safety is always maintained.
* Attend relevant POD meetings.
* Area Lead for EDAR
* Responsibility ensuring panel data is effectively communicated out to the business and ensuring corrective actions are being provided back in a timely manner
* Complete weekly EDAR audit and any other scheduled internal audit
* Make recommendations to the Technical Management to improve QA systems as appropriate
* Attend and contribute to team meetings and taste panels
* Lead Production and Engineers with Incident controls
* Complete fabrication audits as scheduled
* Provide absence cover for Quality Team Leader as appropriate.
Activities and Resources
o Follow relevant SOP’s and ensure relevant QP’s/ CCP’s are adhered to.
o Ensure all company issued sampling and investigation testing regimes are carried out in a timely manner.
o Report immediately to appropriate manager on incidents and situations potentially hazardous to health and safety of personnel and equipment that comes to your notice.
o Perform internal audit as directed.
Requirements
o Experience in quality assurance/quality control/ food safety/ environmental standards/ organics.
o Knowledge of Microsoft Office.
o Working experience within a similar role and/or a food environment.
o Awareness of the importance of food safety.
Benefits
Some of our benefits include:
* Competitive Salary
* NEST Pension Scheme
* Annual Leave – 24.8 days
* Long service awards
* Employee Wellness Programmes
* Life Assurance
* Ride to Work Scheme