Join our client as a Quality Assurance Technician in Rochester, ensuring high manufacturing standards, driving quality, and supporting continuous improvement across a busy food production site. Perfect for someone with QA or food manufacturing experience looking to take the next step.
Quality Assurance Technician
Location: Rochester, Kent
Salary: £25,000 per annum
Permanent
Are you passionate about quality, safety, and continuous improvement? Our client, a well‑established food manufacturer, is seeking a dedicated QA Technician to oversee GMP, plant hygiene, audits, and product quality across the site. This is a fantastic opportunity to step into a key technical role where no two days are the same.
Shift 1
Hours – Shift A- 6am-2pm - Shift B- 2pm-10pm (rotating shift) - Salary: £25k
Shift 2
Hours: 6pm-6am (4 on, 4 off) - Salary: £25k + Night allowance: £1,800
Why join our client?
Join a respected organisation that values high standards, teamwork, and ongoing development. You’ll play an essential part in ensuring safe, compliant, and efficient production while helping to drive improvements across the business.
Key Responsibilities
* Daily GMP audits across the warehouse, factory exterior, and office block
* Regular checks on packing lines to ensure products meet specifications
* Verification of metal detectors, weight checkers, and line equipment
* Ensuring date coding and labelling accuracy
* Conducting traceability tests
* Retaining and quality‑checking daily production samples
* Testing raw materials and packaging quality
* Supplier technical reviews
* Routine quality checks, including metal detection, weights, seals, barcodes, dates, coding, alignment, and case contents
* Taking immediate action on any non‑conformance
* Accurate completion of all documentation
* Supporting batch end procedures and stock reconciliation
* Ensuring production deadlines are met
* Helping minimise waste
* Maintaining a tidy and safe work area
* Assisting with training once competent
* Supporting non‑conformance investigations
* Carrying out additional duties as reasonably required
Skills & Experience
* Previous QA or food handling experience is desirable
* An intermediate food hygiene and understanding of HACCP principles is desirable
* Ability to work independently and as part of a team
* Basic IT skills
* Flexibility to cover shifts, absence, and overtime
* Numerate, literate, and able to follow instructions
* Full in‑house training provided
Morgan Jones is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
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