Skip to main content

This job has expired

Quality Assurance Technologist

Employer
b3 jobs
Location
Essex
Salary
c. £23,500 - £23,600
Closing date
20 Dec 2023
View more categoriesView less categories
Contract Type
Permanent
Function
Graduate, Quality Assurance, Technical
Business Sector
Food Manufacturing

Job Details

Quality Assurance Technologist

c. £23,500 - £26,500
Essex
Ambient Food Manufacturing
Job ref: 8485

The company

We are seeking a talented individual to join an innovative food manufacturer who can provide a rewarding working environment.

This business has experienced tremendous success and is proud of its reputation for providing exceptional customer service and superior quality products.

About the Quality Assurance Technologist job

The purpose of your role will be to ensure that the requirements for BRC certification and customers are met plus maintain the standards for product safety, legality, traceability, quality, hygiene and housekeeping requirements.

Key tasks

  • Carry out internal audits including glass, blades, personal hygiene, and GMP as per schedules.
  • Ensure the control, quarantine, and corrective action of any non-conforming products either from production or at intake.
  • Raise supplier nonconformance/rejection notifications and follow up to ensure investigations are carried out within requested timeframes.
  • Liaise with the site operations for any quality related matters (including but not limited to weight control, foreign body issues including metal finds, coding, returns, storage).
  • Support the QA Manager with monitoring and investigating customer complaints.
  • Organise and arrange laboratory collection and testing as required.
  • Liaise with the Intake and Despatch teams to ensure that product testing is completed and within specification.
  • Collection and hosting of taste panels and shelf-life testing.

About You

  • Ideally educated to a degree level in food science or food technology related discipline.
  • Previous food or beverage quality assurance or quality control experience (this could be from a university placement).
  • Food Hygiene and Food Safety qualifications are a great benefit.
  • Laboratory, auditing, or HACCP knowledge is also an advantage.
  • High attention to detail, excellent communication skills, and IT literate.
  • A driving licence is preferred due to the site location and shift pattern.

More details

The Quality Assurance Technologist job is based in Essex and is paying c. £23,500 - £26,500 (which includes an attendance bonus).

The working hours are a rotating shift pattern of 6.00am -2.00pm and 8.00am – 4.00pm with some flexibility required.

Alternate job titles

QA Technician | QA Auditor | Quality Assurance Auditor | Quality Auditor | Quality Assistant | QA Assistant | Quality Assurance Technician | Food Industry Technical QA Jobs

 

Company

Since 2000, b3 jobs has been helping to further 1000s of people’s careers within the food manufacturing industry, throughout the whole of the UK. As one of the leading specialist food manufacturing recruitment agencies, b3 jobs cover all disciplines both permanent and interim and from graduates to MD’s,

Our core values are always:

  • to find the very best job for you - not us!
  • to give you friendly, ethical, honest and expert recruitment services
  • to advise and not pressurise, so that you can make the right decisions for you

We genuinely strive to provide you with what you want – a job that not only offers the salary you’re after, but also the career progression and job satisfaction that makes going to work all the more worthwhile. Enough trumpet blowing though – visit our website to read just some of our happy previous candidate testimonials - we are more than happy to let our reputation precede us!

For a full up to date list of our jobs, visit www.b3jobs.co.uk

Food Industry Graduates

If you are graduating soon and looking for your first job in food manufacturing, have a look at our Graduate Resource Hub on the b3 jobs website.

https://www.b3jobs.co.uk/graduates

Here you will find everything you need to get started on searching for a new position, from CV and cover letter writing tips, sample food industry job descriptions, informative and entertaining blog posts, useful links and even live graduate vacancies you can apply for.

Company info
Website
Telephone
01435 866000
Location
Heffle Buildings
33a High Street
Heathfield
East Sussex
TN21 8HU
GB

Get job alerts

Create a job alert and receive personalised job recommendations straight to your inbox.

Create alert