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Technical Officer

Employer
DR Newitt
Location
Somerset
Salary
Up to £26K
Closing date
25 Oct 2018

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Contract Type
Permanent
Function
Quality Assurance, Technical
Business Sector
Food Manufacturing

Job Details

The opportunity has arisen to join a fantastic chilled food manufacturer based in Somerset. This business operates with a large customer base out of their busy factory and pride themselves through investing time into training and promoting from within where they can. 

This role reports into the Technical Manager, working alongside a wider team. 

The Role
•    Implement into all factory areas the standards by which the Company operates and seek to raise them continuously (includes production, goods in, engineering, process…)
•    Training of staff against the systems and procedures in place
•    Attending trials to create product standards in conjunction with NPD and Production Dept.
•    Creation and improvement of Work Instructions, logs and reference documents
•    Investigation of Factory non-conformances
•    Investigation of customer complaints and implementation of corrective and preventative actions based on trending and analysis of data
•    Managing the technical indicators, working with laboratory manager
•    Carrying out internal and hygiene audits in conjunction with the appropriate departmental managers to verify that the factory is complying to all customer codes of practice and BRC standards
•    Responsibility for pest control across the whole site
•    Managing internal and external audit actions with the departmental managers to ensure these are reduced and completed within the given time-frame
•    Reviewing internal Work Instructions and practices vs. customer codes of practice / BRC requirements to implement and train any required changes

The Candidate
•    Experience of working within a food factory
•    Ideally, knowledge of customer codes or practice and BRC requirements
•    Experience of Quality Management Systems
•    Degree educated or equivalent in Food Technology would be advantageous  
•    Good communication skills

If you are interested in this position then please forward a copy of your most up to date CV to andrew@drnewitt.com or contact Andrew Donaldson on 0131 226 5060.

Company

Job vacancies from DR Newitt DR Newitt provide recruitment services to the UK, Ireland, Middle East and Worldwide FMCG market, including manufacturing, engineering and technical jobs. Established as a recruitment agency in 2002, DR Newitt’s experience of working with customers in these core markets enables us to be a key partner in the job supply chain.DR Newitt delivers permanent, contract and interim recruitment services via specialist divisions for:

  • Executive Management Jobs
  • FMCG Jobs
  • Food Jobs
  • Engineering Jobs
  • Manufacturing Jobs
  • Jobs in Pharmaceutical & Healthcare
  • Scottish Jobs

For your perfect job, call or email us

Edinburgh Office 0131 226 5060 

Manchester Office 0161 833 0181

Email us your CV to register@drnewitt.com

 

Company info
Website
Telephone
0131 226 5060
Location
38 Melville Street
Edinburgh
EH3 7HA
United Kingdom

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