Technical Assistant

The business produces and supplies products to a wide customer base including major retail and large catering clients. Always striving for high quality and excellent service, the company always puts their customers first to ensure their continued success.

About the Technical Assistant job

The purpose of your role will be to work with the line manager to develop and maintain a food safety and quality assurance program, ensuring the company’s products are safe, legal, and meet or exceed customer expectations.

Key tasks

• Conduct internal and external audits, including GMP and metal detection, while documenting non-conformances and ensuring compliance with the quality manual.
• Perform product testing, environmental swabbing, and staff training on quality and safety, and liaise with pest control contractors as needed.
• Manage health and safety tasks, including reporting near misses, overseeing equipment calibration, and ensuring certification compliance.
• Investigate complaints, identify root causes, log non-conformances, and monitor and report KPIs to the management team.

About You

• The successful candidate should possess a food science degree or have a similar QA/Technical background.
• HACCP Level 3 would be advantageous. Some experience in conducting internal audits would be desirable.
• A driving license is desirable but not essential.

More details

The Technical Assistant job (ref:8818) is based in Crawley, West Sussex and is paying £26,000 - £28,000 according to your experience.

The working hours are standard office Hours.

The site is in West Sussex and is commutable from Horsham, Burgess Hill, Redhill, Sevenoaks, Epsom, Haywards Heath, East Grinstead, Uckfield, Crowborough and Cranleigh (Sussex and Surrey).

Alternate job titles

Technical Administrator| Technical Admin Assistant | Food Technologist | Technical Information Officer | Food Technical Jobs | Technical Assistant | QA Technologist | Quality Assistant