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Technical Assistant

Employer
First Achieve Resource
Location
S/W of England commutable from Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire & Somerset
Salary
Salary up to £28k + Benefits
Closing date
22 Apr 2019

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

Job Details

First Achieve are working with an extremely successful and well-established food manufacturer that supplies high products to major UK supermarkets.

A new opportunity for a Technical Assistant has arisen due to the growth of the business over the last 18 months. The role is to assist the technical department producing quality products to meet customer specifications. Supporting Technical Management with the upkeep of the food safety, quality management and handling customer complaints.

Duties & Responsibilities:

  • Review production processes to ensure products are made to specification
  • Manage external contract services and calibration of equipment to ensure certificates are up to date
  • Support with weekly and monthly technical reports
  • Carry out raw material checks, checking it complies with specifications.
  • Carry out consistent audit’s
  • Assist compliance manager with tracking holidays and holiday cover for the QA team.
  • Manage, trend and report internal NCNs and reject reports and databases
  • Train staff members in technical procedures, including CCP’s
  • Manage lab testing schedule and report out of spec results
  • Use M3 (ERP system) to maintain technical status of raw materials, WIP and finished goods.

Ideal Candidate:

  • Previous experience within a fast-moving food manufacturing environment.
  • Level 2 food safety qualification, preferably level 3
  • Excellent communication and written skills.
  • Understanding of BRC requirements
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Good Microsoft skills, including word and excel and able to maintain accurate records.
  • Problem solver 
  • Analytical

Salary of up to £28,000

If you are interested in applying for the position, please send an updated CV to Bethany Pirie at bethanyp@firstachieve.com or want to discuss the position further call me on 0141 816 0116 

Company

First Achieve is a focused food and drink industry recruitment & resource consultancy offering an extremely specialised and personal service.
We strongly believe in ensuring our business is operated by industry specialists who have the understanding of your sector on a first hand basis. This coupled with robust and effective resourcing tools put First Achieve in a strong position to deliver time after time.

Key areas we cover:

• Executive Positions
• Sales and Marketing
• Dedicated Account Managers
• Technical, Quality and NPD Management
• Production and Operations Management
• Engineering
• Supply Chain and Logistics
• Procurement and Planning
• Finance and Accounts
• HR
• Hospitality Management


Please get in touch on 0141-353-9496 or email info@firstachieve.com

Company info
Telephone
07710436391
Location
1 Spiersbridge Way, Spiersbridge Business Park
Glasgow
East Renfrewshire
G46 8NG
GB

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