The Quality Assurance Technologist- FTC is responsible for ensuring that all product and processes comply with food safety, legality, authenticity and quality requirements throughout all stages of the production process.
Main duties
* Monitoring and upholding of all food safety and legal requirements.
* Assessing quality of fruit throughout the production process to ensure compliance to internal and customer specifications.
* Verifying Critical Control Points (CCPs) to ensure critical limits are being met.
* The Quality Assurance Technologist conducts daily checks of factory processes and procedures to ensure compliance and good manufacturing practices are adhered to.
* The Quality Assurance Technologists are responsible for completing paperwork to a high level of accuracy to record daily QA tasks and audits.
* Understanding of company policies and procedures to enable checking and improve compliance within production.
* Identifying and reporting any quality, food safety or compliance concerns to QA Supervisors and Customer Technical Team as appropriate to enable quick rectification.
* Creating new programmes in the metal detectors and check weighers and troubleshooting issues during production.
* Thoroughly conducting practical internal audits including CCP, GMP, Fabrication, Glass and Hard Plastic etc.
* Collecting and registering product samples for microbiological testing.
* Following the sampling plan to correctly take and accurately register swabs, air plates and water samples.
* Observing personal hygiene practices and reporting of any non-conformance to procedures.
* Operating in a tidy, organised and efficient manner to complete all QA operations and maintain order within the Technical office.
* Retrieving and collating paperwork to facilitate traceability requests.
* Completing and supporting Print Room operations as required.
* Conducting daily Taste Panels as required to support the Taste Panel Coordinator.
* Acting proactively to identify areas for improvement.
* Acting with the customer in mind.
* Support for the wider Technical Team as required.
What you need to be successful
* Ability to read and write in English
* Preferable experience in High Care Food Industry Environment
* Preferable experience working with fresh produce
* Proactive individual with high energy
* Patient and understanding
* Good communicator
* Ability to multitask and prioritise
* Team worker
* Preferable ability to drive
* Preferable experience in the food industry
* Preferable experience with Print Room operations and printing/editing software
In return we provide
* Stream (track your earnings and instantly access up to 50% of your money as you earn it, without waiting for payday)
* On site parking with electric charge points
* Fully paid for staff events
* Staff restaurant serving heavily subsidised hot and cold food
* Brand new facilities
* A supportive team
Hours and Days of Work
Pay: Starting from £13.06 per hour L1, to £13.44 per hour L2 and up to £13.80 per hour L3 after full training.
Days: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday
This is an FTC role until 19/02/2027
Location
Unit K, Springhead Enterprise Park, Northfleet, Gravesend DA11 8HH
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