Quality Assurance Technician
16 hours ago
Sittingbourne
Job Title: Quality Assurance Technician Salary: £27,500 - £30,000 per annum Location: Sittingbourne, ME10 Department: Technical Reports to: Technical Manager Job Summary As Quality Assurance Technician, it will be your job to actively manage areas such as legal compliance, food safety, hygiene and ensuring that agreed quality standards are met. You will work closely with the Unit Leaders to ensure legality, safety and quality of products are not compromised. In addition, ensure effective systems and monitoring processes in line with IFS / BRCGS standards and relevant customer standards and specifications are adhered to. Communication • Clearly, and effectively communicate quality and non-conformance issues to relevant Unit Leaders/Managers, • Assist with the with the implementation of all food safety programs (IFS, BRCGS, GMPs and other), • Complete daily GMP and hygiene audits, • Other routine audit checks include glass, pest control and monthly first aid box checks, • Carry out internal audits collating and presenting data for continuous improvement., • Complete daily weight checks, product checks (including 1st off's) and batch checks, • Inspect raw materials to ensure consistency and integrity, • Maintain, test and troubleshoot relevant instrumentation devices, • Create labels in Clarisoft, • Deal with quality issues and manage solutions in line with non-conformance procedure, • Ensure staff are maintaining a high level of accuracy and a low level of errors when carrying out routine checks. Where applicable instigate corrective/preventive actions., • Liaise with Unit Leaders to facilitate the site's “CLEAN AS YOU GO” policy, • Organising samples for new business, • Attend food safety forum meetings and HACCP review meetings, • Implement new and existing legal requirements relating to food safety, and health & safety., • Ability to communicate both verbally and in writing, • Ability to lead by influencing, • Good interpersonal skills, • Computer literacy (Word, Excel etc) Experience with Orderwise and Safety Culture (IAuditor) would be an advantage, • Attention to detail, • Monday – Thursday 06:00 – 16:00 The responsibilities listed above shall be covered by the Technical Assistant in the event of absence If this sounds like the opportunity for you, please apply ASAP. *PLEASE NOTE – by applying to this position, you agree for your CV to be submitted to our client, who shall contact you directly, should your application make their short-list. You also agree to our Privacy Policy: acapella-recruitment.co.uk./privacy-policy.html which can be found on our website. JBRP1_UKTJ