Qa Specialist (Food)

Major Recruitment are seeking a dedicated Technical Audit & Support Officer to ensure adherence to quality and legal standards in our client's factory in Bradford. Our client is a leading family-run food production business with a rich 190-year legacy.

As the Technical Audit & Support Officer, you'll play a pivotal role in maintaining Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and regulatory compliance. Collaborating closely with manufacturing teams, you'll drive continuous improvement in product quality, process efficiency, and employee development.

Key responsibilities include ensuring compliance with product quality, safety, and legal standards, providing technical guidance to Engineering and Production Operators, and maintaining accurate records to support regulatory compliance.

This role offers a fantastic opportunity for career advancement within a respected organisation committed to excellence in food production and quality assurance. If you're passionate about maintaining high standards in food manufacturing, apply today.

What's in it for you?

• Permanent position
• 32 hours per week with flexibility
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Holiday purchase scheme
• Canteen Facilities
• 22,000.00 to start
• Christmas raffle
• Comprehensive PPE provided.
• Training for career progression
• Fast-track opportunities to become Senior Operative and Team Leader
• Free parking

Key Responsibilities:

• To ensure that all Company quality parameters and procedures are complied with and that all products manufactured meet the required standards and specifications.
• Conducting structured GMP/Hygiene/Compliance/HACCP audits of process & packing operations to ensure right first time, adherence to procedures & protocols, customer requirements, and provide corrective actions when necessary.
• Issue of Non-Conformance Reports and management of the associated database, ensuring that NCR corrective actions are completed in a timely manner and are verified for effectiveness.
• Conducting audits in line with the internal audit schedule.
• Investigate all instances of failure to ensure corrective and preventative actions are captured.
• Providing technical information and advice to Engineering/Production Operatives.
• Continually monitoring products by reviewing the product through the production flow.
• Maintains, with others, technical operating standards and functionality.
• Acting as a source of knowledge of ingredient and plant functionality to achieve optimum output working with the area team to improve quality and efficiency targets.
• To ensure that the Company is professionally represented at all times, both inside and outside the business.
• To protect the health, safety and welfare of the job-holder and others at all times.
• To take an active role in continuously developing the job-holder's skills and knowledge through self-development activities and/or through attending Company organised training and development opportunities.
• To respond to ad hoc requests and/or take an active role in specific projects as directed by the job-holder's line manager.
• To support the technical team conducting allergen validations across site.
• Manage and communicate the sites technical data KPI and Centec reporting to maintain a high level of technical awareness across relevant depts.
• Support the technical team with customer requests including creating and amending specifications.
• To undertake any other reasonable duties as may from time to time be required by the Company.
• Support the operations team conducting red pen checks and walking tours to ensure standards are maintained delivering right first time on production operations.

1. Key Performance Indicators/Key Result Areas

Safety, Quality, Hygiene

• Personally demonstrate the correct safety behaviours, ensuring safe operating practices are followed.
• Contribute to risk assessments when required.
• Support a culture that enhances behavioural awareness to reduce accidents and near misses.
• Promote & encourage a culture of high standards in food safety and quality, leading by example in carrying out routine and exceptional tasks.

People Management

• Motivate and advise relevant functions on food safety/legality.

Operations Management

• Monitor, control, advise and audit for compliance to QMS throughout processing.
• Daily verification of CCP performance
• Support Investigation of CCP rejections and critical limit violations
• Ensure that all testing and checks are completed accurately to schedule.
• Effectively and in a timely manner communicate key information to Production Operators, Production Management, and team's supervisor to meet production plan.
• Ensure accurate communication of technical information of process control parameters to the Process Operators
• Proactively provide and apply detailed technical information of ingredient and plant.
• Maintain knowledge of processes, equipment standards and product functionality.
• Collate, interpret, and report on process variables to implement measures for improving yields and variances.
• Familiarise and advise Process Production Operators and supervisors on controlled documentation for new or developed products.
• Identify own training needs and with the Head of Operations, agree a time plan for achieving this.

Continuous Improvement

• Involved in implementation teams for change activities related to product maintenance and material changes, championing related cost saving activities.
• Promote a continuous improvement approach to enhance/improve the issuing and distribution of controlled documentation and manuals.
• Monitor status and verify completion of non-conformance reports.
• Contribute to the delivery of continuous improvement projects from ideas generation to completion.
• Responsible for achieving personal development objectives.

Communication

• Continuously with Operation Managers, Supervisors, Technical dept, Engineering dept and production operators to ensure priorities and concerns are communicated and acted upon.
• Liaise closely with colleagues within and across Technical Dept for product development and new recipe, material, information updates and change activities.

If you are a motivated individual with a strong work ethic and a desire to contribute to a dynamic team environment, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

Please submit your resume detailing your relevant experience. Please do not call the office, if you have been successful, you will hear back within 2 days.

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