Quality Assurance Technician

Position: Quality Assurance Technician
Industry: Food Manufacturing
Location: Little Moons, Cransley Business Park, Kettering
Salary: £27625 increasing to £28730 on completion of 3 month probation
Shift Details: Recruiting for various shifts.  
Direct Reports: Operatives & Technicians
 
On behalf of our client Little Moons, Pertemps Kettering are recruiting for a Quality Assurance Technician to be a key player of the technical team. This role will be involved in a variety of quality assurance processes including specification management, and auditing of food safety systems and procedures.
You will help ensure all our products meet the criteria for safe and legal food supply. You will be gaining experience in the production area learning about the manufacturing process and ensuring all technical requirements and company’s standards are met and are compliant with UK/EU statutory requirements.
 
Benefits Include:

• Medicash, Private Health Scheme & Life Insurance
• Enhanced New Baby Leave available.
• We understand that mental health matters. We partner with Health

Assured to provide remote emotional support to team members.

• Discretionary annual bonus based on personal & company performance.
• Up to 4 weeks of paid sick leave
• Holidays Include 33 B/H

 
About You:
Essential:

• Either a degree in food science with 1 years' experience or 3 years' experience in a QA role
• Qualified in HACCP and Food Safety
• Experience in a high care/high risk environment
• Excellent communicator and ability to work cross functionally taking their own initiative. Strong and fast acting, willing to challenge the norm.
• Attention to detail.

Desirable:

• Experience of ice cream or chilled dessert environment making enriched dough products
• Experience of validation and verification of QMS systems through introduction of a new production line or in a new factory

 
Some of the Key Skills will include:

• Be a key member of the team that will set up and validate the new QMS and Food Safety Plan to BRCGS and FSMA standard.
• Work with the QA Supervisor to ensure the validation of food safety and quality processes are validated and the correct verification processes put in place for the factory at point of saleable product. Work as part of the Kettering QA team
• Work with the opposite shift QA supervisor and QAs to meet the requirements of the QMS and food safety plan, through delivering the sites standards for all factory internal audits, e.g., GMP, and standards as detailed in procedures and SOPs. Raise and issue non- conformances to relevant department, supporting the closure.
• To support the QA Supervisor in delivery of site standards for visits and audits either through direct input, indirect support and / or organisation of QA team activities
• Complete QA activities required to deliver improvement of Technical KPIs e.g., audit of non-conforming processes, complaint investigations, update of swab schedules, GMP audits, glass, and plastic audits.
• Support the food technologists to successful trials and launches. Drive the Food Safety and Quality Culture within the factory environment.
• To operate in a safe working manner and support the site/business on continuous improvement relating to health, safety, and the environment.
• To provide cover for QA supervisor holiday or absence

 
Interested? Please click apply.