Quality Assurance Technician
Redditch
Permanent
£12.30p/hr
What's on offer?
- Monday – Friday
- 6am – 2:30pm
- 33 days annual leave including bank holidays
- 4x death in service
- Discount package (days out, retail, gym memberships etc)
- Health and wellbeing package including GP hotline
The responsibilities of the successful Quality Assurance Technician:
- Collection of all samples for analysis in accordance with scheduled requirements, accurately inputting into required systems
- Carry out swabbing requirements in compliance with documented schedules
- Carry out documented ingredient and packaging inspection checks, feeding back results to the Intake Compliance controller
- Ensure test packs are made up to accurate weight and that all packaging tare weights are checked and updated.
- Confirm the accuracy of measuring equipment by performing calibration/verification checks including liaising with external companies where required. Maintain up to date schedules of all equipment ensuring equipment is operating within tolerance, actioning any out of specification in a timely manner ensuring equipment is available for factory monitoring checks
- Maintain and update Glass and Hard plastic and start up audit sheets and booklets
- Play an active role in the complaints reduction action plan working with the QA team and operations to drive high product quality standards
- Set up and run quality taste panels, including cooking products as required. Ensure full documentation of the panel, highlighting all individual issues
- Product quality assessment work as requested; SOL, EOL, over shelf life, consistency panels
- Control of completed factory paperwork ensuring paperwork is organised and easily obtainable for traceability and audit purposes
- Control of factory consumables through numbering/coding and issuing to operational departments
- Confirmation of detection methods for consumable items such as Metal detection checks on new batches of plasters, pens etc
- To be a key member of the site audit traceability team
- Work positively to drive continuous improvement in the QA systems
- Fully understand and comply with all department and company policies and guidelines
- Any other duties or project work may be assigned as deemed necessary to the needs of the business.
The accountabilities of the successful Quality Assurance Technician
- Taste panel schedule compliance – completion rate KPI
- QA procedural third party and customer audit compliance – areas of responsibility, level of NC's raised
- Accuracy of data input and schedule compliance for samples and swabbing – Level of errors identified
- Calibration matrix up to date – Level of equipment calibrations and verifications completed within date
- This role has a responsibility for food safety, brand integrity and Health and Safety
The successful candidate MUST:
- Have experience in the Food industry
- Food Safety qualification at Level 2 or higher
- Proficient in Microsoft applications, outlook, word, excel, powerpoint etc