Quality Assurance Technician – Weekend Nights

This role is based on working night shift Friday (12 hours), Saturday (12 hours) and Monday (8 hours).

Purpose Statement

• To ensure products manufactured are safe, legal and comply to customer’s quality standards.
• To ensure all food safety monitoring equipment are well maintained and calibrated to comply with legal and customer standard requirements.

Key Accountabilities / Outcomes

• Ensure compliance with British Retail Consortium (BRC) and customer specific standards are met at all times.
• Working with the Production Team to establish and maintain procedures and standards.
• Completion of regular quality reports.
• Conducting internal audits, including auditing products to ensure adherence to specification, swabs, micros, water tests, GMP audits, lockers, glass and plastic audits.
• To actively promote good manufacturing practices.
• To ensure monitoring equipment is calibrated with accordance to schedule and calibration records are retained.
• To conduct product assessment on finished products against quality attributes to ensure compliance to finished product specification.
• To conduct QA line checks on finished product to ensure all labelling information and date coding is correct and meets legal requirements and shelf life.
• To immediately report any product or process found to be out of specification. Control and document any non‑conformances with accordance to company procedure.
• To assist in identification of root cause of non‑conformity/complaints and implementation of corrective actions.
• To contribute towards trouble shooting & problem solving within the factory.
• To ensure all related paperwork is completed and documented with accordance to company standard; legible, retained and retrievable.
• To assist the implementation of company QMS process and procedures in the factory.
• To assist Production in maintaining hygienic practices & procedures.
• Compiling Product Manuals and labelling information for all products for effective launch.
• To assist in quality testing of raw materials, end products and packaging materials.
• To carry out cleaning verification and validation to support the EMP.
• To assist in 2nd party auditing (suppliers)
• To assist in the training of new members in the QA team and Production Operatives.
• To assist with the coverage of absence within the technical department to ensure business requirements are fully met.

Knowledge, Skills, Experience

• Level 3 in food hygiene
• Level 2/3 in HACCP
• EMP knowledge
• QMS knowledge
• BRC food manufacturing awareness
• Complaint handling
• Bakery process knowledge
• Internal audit trained
• Basic food law and regulations
• Food Manufacturing background
• Desirable
• 2 years experiences in food manufacturing environment
• Degree level in education
• QMS experiences
• Experience s in internal auditing

Rich Products Corporation welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

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