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QA Technician / Quality Technician

Employer
Food & Drink Recruit
Location
Oldham
Salary
£17-20k +Benefits
Closing date
28 Nov 2019

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

Job Details

QA Technician, Oldham

Park Cakes is a c£160million business which supplies cake and desserts in Own Brand to the Major Multiples. There are two sites in the North West at Bolton and Oldham. The Oldham site is a craft bakery supplying cake products and mainstream desserts mostly to Marks & Spencers. The Bolton site manufactures more commodity based products making for example slab cakes, and top tier unit cake for a variety of retailers including Sainsbury's, Asda, Tesco's and Morrisons, and also features some brand products.

The success of Park Cakes has further been recognised both by its peers and within its sector by being awarded a variety of awards including the Bakery Food Manufacturer of the year.

The vacancy for a QA Technicians which will be working as part of the Technical team.

Key Example Duties:

  • Compiling, issuing and training of process control records and quality standards.
  • Attending trials and product launches.
  • Auditing and monitoring of food safety, quality and legality within the factory.
  • Internal Auditing (systems, GMP, CCP audits)
  • Investigation of Customer Complaints and attending Customer complaints meetings
  • Troubleshooting and supporting Operations / Technical in resolving issues
  • Monitor the standards of hygiene, food safety, GMP, traceability, allergen management, legality and quality
  • Carrying out Traceability and Mass balance exercises
  • Ensuring foreign body controls are in place and adequate in production areas
  • Ensuring technical systems are in place in their factory / area and are being followed
  • Organise / attend QC panels on site and ensure corrective actions are followed up and communicated
  • Calibration of key equipment
  • Carrying out swabbing (Micro and allergen) as and when required
  • Ensuring their area / factory is to the best GMP standards ready for unannounced audits / customer visits.
  • Further details to be discussed at interview stage

Skills and Experience:

 

  • Experience in a similar role within a food manufacture environment OR educated to a degree in a food science related discipline.
  • Some previous experience and/or knowledge of food safety standards (e.g. BRC), auditing and HACCP would be useful.
  • Attention to detail.
  • Good communication skills across all levels are essential.
  • Excellent organisational skills in a fast-paced environment and ability to prioritise
  • IT skills such as excel, word and power point are desirable.
  • Good standard of numeracy.
  • Applicants should be able to work on their own without supervision.
  • Understanding of Food Safety and Food Safety Systems such as HACCP
  • Internal Auditing qualification is desirable.
  • Must be completely flexible with working hours - may be required to do Nights, Evening or Weekends.

Hours:

To be confirmed but will be either (6am - 2pm or 2pm - 10pm or 10pm - 6am), Shift finishes 1 hour early on Fridays. Flexibility is essential.

Package:

 

  • Salary between £17k & £20k per annum
  • 25 days holiday a year and 8 statutory holidays
  • Money purchase pension scheme
  • Discount scheme on purchases from high street retailers
  • Free Parking

To Apply: Please press the "apply" button

Due to the amount of applications received, only those who our client wishes to progress will be contacted. If you have not received correspondence within 21 days, then please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Thank you for reading this advertisement.

This may be of interest to those looking for the following roles: QA Assistant, Quality Control, Quality Assurance Technician, Quality Control Technical Assistant Food Manufacturing FMCG, Manchester Bolton Blackburn Stockport Rochdale Warrington Bury

 

Company

Food and Drink Recruit are a leading specialist recruitment agency. We can fill any specialised roles for Food and Drink Manufacturing Companies across the UK.

Our recruitment covers all disciplines such as NPD, Technical, Quality, Engineering, HR, Production, IT, Purchasing, Sales and Marketing, Supply Chain, Warehouse, Planning etc.

Check our website for more details: www.foodanddrinkrecruit.co.uk

Company info
Website
Telephone
0113 2250 907
Location
Spen Court
Leeds
LS16
GB

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