Job Description

As a Quality Control Technician, you will play a critical role in ensuring that all finished goods conform to food legislation, BRCGS, customer and quality standards. You will be responsible for the controlling the positive release of finished goods based on successful testing of finished products.

Duties

• QC testing of raw materials, intermediate & finished products to ensure compliance with the prescribed standards.
• Maintenance of the testing records and recording any deviations
• Calibration and / or verification of laboratory & production equipment
• Maintaining certificates of analysis for laboratory testing equipment
• Identification & control of non-conforming products ensuring that effected products are held and communicated to the wider team.
• Coordination of external laboratory testing including microbiological, chemical and allergens. Ensuring samples are submitted and any out of specification results are reported.
• Creation of accurate finished product certificates of analysis for customers
• Formulation and label checks of finished products, ensuring the accuracy of the information provided.
• To regularly audit the site for compliance of products, processes & personnel to agreed standards.
• From the audit process identify areas of non-conformance or other issues. Either personally or with the operations team management, take appropriate action to resolve and ensure the non-conformity is appropriately recorded and communicated.
• To monitor the effectiveness of plant cleaning and hygiene control to ensure products meet their specification requirements.
• To ensure documentation is correctly completed and filed.

Required knowledge, skills or experience

• Food Manufacturing Experience
• Experience in Quality Control or Quality Assurance
• Knowledge of Hygiene standards
• Knowledge of Technical standards
• HACCP
• QA auditing experience
• Language requirement is English
• Computer Literate

Additional Information

Location: Hetton-le-Hole

Hours of work:

• Two weeks of days, one week afternoons and one week night shift
• Days 7am-3pm
• Backs 3pm-11pm
• Nights 11pm-7am

Rates of pay:

• Days £11.44
• Backs £12.93
• Nights £14.77

This vacancy is being advertised on behalf of Gem Partnership Ltd who are trading as a recruitment business.

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