Quality Technologist
Job Overview:
Ensuring product safety, legality, and quality aligning with brand, customer, and third-party standards. Implementing QMS effectively.
This is a 9 month (maternity cover) paid weekly.
Key Responsibilities:
- Monitor site standards and ensure compliance to food safety, legal and customer requirements.
- To adhere to the Company Food Safety and Quality Policy.
- Assess product quality and adherence to specifications throughout process (goods intake, storage, grading & weighing, packing, picking). Report findings, advise on sourcing and drive quality improvements.
- Undertake supplier audits including visits in the UK and abroad.
- Maintain, review, check, collect process control documents.
- Support continuous improvement by investigating internal audit findings, customer complaints to root cause and driving actions.
- Shelf-life test finished products. Support product benchmarking.
- Provide support with customer enquiries (e.g. specification, complaint management, training etc) when requested.
- Support continuous improvement by delivering specific internal training.
- Assist with management of outsourced services (cleaning, pest control, lab testing).
- Support site waste minimisation program; identify opportunities to reduce waste.
- Assist with external audits or visits.
- Support HACCP/TACCP Teams and QMS review as requested.
- Able to have (with notice) some flexibility with working patterns (e.g. holiday cover) as necessary for the needs of the business.
- Any other reasonable management request as dictated by the needs of the business.
Our client is a very well established business that offers excellent working environment and real collaboration across departments.