Role: Senior Quality Assurance Technician
Job Term: Permanent
Location: Knutsford, WA16
Working hours: Monday to Friday 10am-7pm. This can vary as on some days you may be required to work 7am-4pm or 6am-3pm.
You need to be available to work some Sundays when required.
Pay: £30,000 per annum - this is negotiable
Job Description: Your key accountabilities and specific duties will be:
- Check and report on all attributes of product quality both pre-harvest and post-harvest (shelf life).
- Check and report on all attributes of product quality for the packing process and finished goods within the Co-Packing factory.
- Liaise with the Co packing factory on all elements of quality and JPAO customer requirements.
- Assisting growing staff in audit compliance with process checks (temp / PPM / gas / room) and report non-conformances.
- Ensuring full understanding of the growing process.
- Complaint's investigation, root cause identification and recommended corrective actions, including RCA,
- Conducting and auditing compliance with standard operating procedures
- Assist other team members in developing and amending standard operating procedures.
- Assist in the training of standard operating procedures when required to do so.
- Collate QAS's.
- Auditing water recycling process.
- Conducting and reporting on GMP audits.
- Conduct glass and hard plastic audit.
- Conduct equipment calibration audits.
- Collect seed, product & water samples as required.
- Record seed intake details to ensure full traceability.
- Manage the control of paperwork and documentations.
- Can conduct technical element of new staff inductions.
- Managing Laundry collections
- Pest control
- Implement corrective action where required and RCA.
- Comply with all appropriate HR & Safety policies & policies.
- Conduct internal audits in adherence to set schedule based on BRCGS standard
- Maintain and populate certain parts of the QMS (logs, schedules etc.)
- Audit staff competency and process activities related to CCP's
- Deliver small on-site projects related to technical performance
- Issue out Non-conformance reports internally and externally
- Support administration tasks in the office
- Food production operative duties
- Making sure the production area is clean (will be required to use a jet washer from time to time)
- Manual Handling
- Hygiene Operative duties
Required Experience: Experience is a similar role is essential. Ideally you will also have the below:
- Food Safety & Hygiene Level 3
- Level 2 HACCP Trained
- COSHH Trained
- Understand BRC
- Excellent IT skills
- Experience with BRC and actively participating in audits
The role is due to start immediately for the successful candidate.