Quality Assurance Technician

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