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Dawn Foods is a global leader in bakery manufacturing and ingredients distribution. As the partner of choice for inspiring bakery success, we help customers grow their business through meaningful partnerships, research-driven insights and innovations, and products and expertise they can depend on. As a family-owned company, our commitments to our people, products, customers, and corporate values, are all part of our recipe for success.
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Accurate monitoring of finished product food safety, compliance and quality and quality assurance systems across the whole site
Fundamentals of the position:
* Ensure good manufacturing practices and hygiene standards are being maintained across the site through management of a comprehensive audit schedule (GMP, Hygiene and fabrication inspections)
* Completing internal audits to verify compliance with customer and external standards alongside the operations team to identify compliance and points for improvements
* Hygiene verification checks between product types - swabbing when necessary
* Advise and support production staff to improve food safety culture
* Raw Materials and supplier approval
* Liasing with the Operations to ensure documents are accurate and updated where necessary
* Conducting calibration and internal verification as per schedule (scales, temperature probes, pH meters etc.)
* Packaging and label checks
* Inspection and sign off following engineering/ maintenance works
* Management of the shelf life testing schedule and sample storage areas in accordance with customer requirements
* Investigating food safety incidents, non-conformances and supplier complaints where necessary in conjunction with cross functional team
* Environmental monitoring of the site, recording results and investigating failures
* Collating samples for external laboratory analysis
* Reporting and trending of key quality data for discussion in monthly Quality meetings
* Monitoring of QA Evesham email inbox and responding to customer queries
* Global scorecard completion
* Completion of customer questionnaires
* Issuing of certificates of conformance
* Any other reasonable tasks
Specialist Areas of Experience Preferred or Equivalent:
• Detailed knowledge of BRC and IFS standards.
• HACCP knowledge
• Foundation Certificate in Food Hygiene
• MS Office suite to Intermediate level (Word/Excel etc.)
• Minimum Applicable Years of Experience and Area/Field:
• At least 3 years’ experience of food manufacturing.
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An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity/gender expression, citizenship status, military or veteran status, genetic information or any other status or condition that is protected by applicable law.
Requisition ID: 35466