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Quality Assurance Officer

Employer
b3 jobs
Location
Kent
Salary
to £28,500
Closing date
27 Mar 2025
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Contract Type
Permanent
Function
Quality Assurance
Business Sector
Food Manufacturing

Job Details

Founded more than twenty years ago this food manufacturer takes pride in crafting a variety of luxury foods, meticulously hand-finished to the highest standards by their dedicated and skilled staff.

About the Quality Assurance Officer job

Reporting to the Technical Manager, the Quality Assurance Officer plays an essential role in ensuring that our clients products meet the highest standards. The successful candidate will maintain site GMP, hygiene, quality, and food safety systems and specifications. Actively contribute to resolving quality issues and driving continuous improvement.

Key tasks

  • To ensure front line maintenance of site GMP, hygiene, quality and food safety systems and specifications providing technical support to staff and line management.
  • Take responsibility of decision making on food safety, quality, and compliance to ensure the consumer receives a quality product.
  • Conduct daily, weekly, and monthly inspections/ audits/checks i.e Undertake Internal Audits, and ensure corrective actions are taken to prevent reoccurrence.
  • Ensure quality attribute tests/taste panels are completed as required by testing schedules and in compliance with in-house specifications and QAS.

About You

  • You will possess good experience of working in a quality control / assurance role in food manufacturing and looking to join an innovative business.
  • You will ideally have a sound understanding of health & safety, BRC and HACCP (or HACCP trained).
  • You will also possess excellent team working and communication skills.
  • Access to own transport due to site location.

More details

The QA Officer job (ref:8847) is paying £27,000 - £28,500 according to your experience.

The working hours are late shifts – 1:30pm to 10:00pm.

The site is in Kent and is commutable from Tunbridge Wells, Maidstone, Ashford, Battle, Hawkhurst, Staplehurst, Cranbrook, Crowborough, Paddock Wood and surrounding towns. 

Alternate job titles

Quality Systems Technologist | Quality Assurance Technologist | QA Auditor | Food Technologist | QA Technologist | QA Technician

 

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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