- Food Safety qualifications.
- Appropriate food manufacturing experience.
- Good literacy and numeracy skills and computer competent on Microsoft Office.
- High attention to detail levels, strong communication skills (verbal and written).
- Investigative, analytical and decisive.
- Ability to influence at all levels.
- Knowledge, of safety, legality, compliance and quality across site process and product range.
- Ability to proactively manage data and prioritise workloads.
- Ability to contribute to crisis situations e.g. Product Recalls.
- Quality inspection, auditing and testing experience within food manufacturing and knowledge of relevant regulatory requirements.
- Working safely, wearing the correct PPE, reporting accidents & near misses.
- Internal Auditing: Quality Management System, Prerequisite Programs.
- Lead service audits, Hallal Kosher and organic.
- Manage raw materials & Supplier verification.
- Ensure compliance with raw material and finished product specifications.
- Carry out internal and supplier audits.
- Proactively challenge for continuous improvement.
- Compliance to product surveillance systems.
- Artwork approval.
- Training of Operations on critical food safety, legality and quality procedures and processes.
- Investigate customer complaints and non-conformance issues.
- Develop, recommend and monitor corrective and preventive actions.
- Ensuring internal and external customer requirements are achieved and continually improved with regard to products post launch and issues arising from visits and audits.
- Ensure that customer and legal requirements are maintained for compliance at all times.
- To ensure the successful delivery of the development cycle by providing relevant information at weekly project meetings, and those associated with our gated development process.
- To ensure all relevant technical matters relating to customer / product are formally communicated to the appropriate personnel within the business.
- To develop and maintain effective relationships with customers.
- Implementation of and compliance to technical policies.
- Manufacture of safe, legal and quality products consistently .
- Proactively collect, collate and report on relevant site data.
- Play an active role in achieving site certifications where applicable.
- Supports and provide a technical service to the site teams.