Rewards and Benefits on offer:
* A full time and permanent role from day one!
* A competitive basic salary!
* Excellent company culture
* Generous holiday allowance
* An opportunity within a growing and successful business
* Immediate starts available
* Fantastic work culture
MTrec's new client opportunities:
MTrec recruitment are representing our industry leading manufacturing client based in the heart of Midlothian. The business is a well-established company and are looking to expand their talented quality team by recruiting a full time and permanent QA Technologist.
The Job you will do:
* Drive continuous improvement across quality, cost control, waste reduction, and efficiency
* Ensure compliance with company policies, procedures, and safe working practices
* Complete customer questionnaires and prepare product specifications
* Support communication with suppliers, customers, and certification bodies on quality matters
* Coordinate audits and maintain accreditation standards
* Perform stock checks on quarantined materials
* Inspect retained samples and approve product release where required
* Conduct in-process quality checks across production
* Prepare compliance and analysis certificates
* Carry out laboratory testing (e.g., yield, seal strength, friction, solvent levels)
* Prepare and dispatch customer samples
* Produce internal and customer reports
* Lead root cause investigations and implement corrective actions
* Manage customer complaints and response processes
* Hold quality review meetings and analyse trends in issues
* Conduct hygiene inspections and glass audits
* Maintain housekeeping and hygiene standards
* Deliver training on quality and hygiene procedures and keep records
* Support quality management systems, including traceability, recalls, supplier issues, and internal audits
About you:
* Good organisational and time management skills
* Ideally you will be from a food manufacturing background or similar.
* It is essential you are experienced with BRCGS and HACCP
* High standards of personal conduct and professional performance
* Effective written and verbal communication skills
* Good team player; ability to work as part of a team and alone on own initiative
* Ability to think and plan ahead
* Reliable and flexible to manage changing priorities
* Accurate with good attention to detail
* A positive, proactive and constructive approach to problem solving
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