Senior Quality Assurance Technician

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.