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QA Technician

Employer
b3 jobs
Location
Wigan, Greater Manchester
Salary
to £27,000
Closing date
21 Feb 2025
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Contract Type
Permanent
Function
Quality Assurance
Business Sector
Food Manufacturing

Job Details

This role is working for a successful BRC AA Graded food manufacturer. The company produces high-quality food products and exceptional service - enabling their food manufacturing customers to innovate and increase productivity without compromising on quality.

About the QA Technician job

In this role, you will collaborate closely with the QA Supervisor and other departments to ensure the clients products and services meet agreed specifications, timelines, and the highest technical and quality standards. Your commitment will help maintain full compliance with legal and regulatory requirements while consistently delivering excellence.

Key tasks

  • Maintain accurate records of all quality paperwork received and/or returned from other departments and ensure tasks (QA Matrix) and any other requested activities are completed within the designated timescales.
  • Ensure that all quality and food safety systems are operated throughout all departments with full documentation and that they meet the requirements within the BRC Global Food standard and legislation.
  • Assist with customer complaints: identify root causes and determine corrective actions required to prevent further complaints; ensure complaints are closed out as per company procedure.
  • Develop and maintain excellent relationships with customers, external contacts and colleagues as well as preparing and assisting in customer visits and site technical audits where necessary.

About You

The successful candidate shall have proven experience of working in a Quality Assurance environment and ideally be educated to degree level in Food Science. In addition, HACCP and Food Safety qualifications are essential along with being PC literate as well as an excellent communicator at all levels, both written and verbally.

More details

The QA Technician job (ref:8836) pays £25,000 - £27,000 according to your experience.

The package includes 21 days holiday plus bank holidays, Pension, Investment in People and Training, Referral Programme for successful employee referrals, Wellbeing and Engagement Programmes, Onsite Mental Health First Aiders, Employee Assistance Programme for yourself, your partner and any children in full-time education up to the age of 21, this includes counselling, Onsite Car Parking, Company Sickness Pay, Seasonal Flu Vouchers.

The site is in Wigan, Greater Manchester and is commutable from Manchester, Bolton, Warrington, Preston, Ormskirk, St Helens, Chorley and Bury, along with other areas of Lancashire and Merseyside.

The working hours are rotating shifts on a three-weekly schedule as per the below - 

Week 1 Monday – Thursday 06:00–14:30 & Friday 06:00-13:30

Week 2 Monday – Thursday 08:00-16:30 & Friday 07:30 – 15:00

Week 3 Monday – Wednesday 11:30-22:00 & Thursday 11:30-21:00

Alternate job titles

Quality Assurance Technician | QA Auditor | Quality Assurance Auditor | QA Technologist | Quality Auditor | Quality Assistant | QA Assistant | Quality Assurance Technician | QC Technician | Quality Controller

 

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
United Kingdom

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