Quality Assurance Technologist - FTC

• Location: Northfleet, Kent, United Kingdom

TheQuality Assurance Technologist- Fixed Term Contract on daysis responsible for ensuring that all product and processes comply with food safety, legality, authenticity and quality requirements throughout all stages of the production process.

• Monitoring and upholding of all food safety and legal requirements.
• Assessing quality of fruit throughout the production process to ensure compliance to internal and customer specifications.
• Verifying Critical Control Points (CCPs) to ensure critical limits are being met.
• The Quality Assurance Technologist conducts daily checks of factory processes and procedures to ensure compliance and good manufacturing practices are adhered to.
• The Quality Assurance Technologists are responsible for completing paperwork to a high level of accuracy to record daily QA tasks and audits.
• Understanding of company policies and procedures to enable checking and improve compliance within production.
• Identifying and reporting any quality, food safety or compliance concerns to QA Supervisors and Customer Technical Team as appropriate to enable quick rectification.
• Creating new programmes in the metal detectors and check weighers and troubleshooting issues during production.
• Thoroughly conducting practical internal audits including CCP, GMP, Fabrication, Glass and Hard Plastic etc.
• Collecting and registering product samples for microbiological testing.
• Following the sampling plan to correctly take and accurately register swabs, air plates and water samples.
• Observing personal hygiene practices and reporting of any non-conformance to procedures.
• Operating in a tidy, organised and efficient manner to complete all QA operations and maintain order within the Technical office.
• Retrieving and collating paperwork to facilitate traceability requests.
• Completing and supporting Print Room operations as required.
• Conducting daily Taste Panels as required to support the Taste Panel Coordinator.
• Acting proactively to identify areas for improvement.
• Acting with the customer in mind.
• Support for the wider Technical Team as required.

What you need to be successful:

• Ability to read and write in English
• (Preferable) experience in High Care Food Industry Environment
• (Preferable) experience working with fresh produceProactive individual with high energy
• Patient and understanding
• Ability to multitask and prioritise
• (Preferable) ability to drive
• (Preferable) experience in the food industry
• (Preferable) experience with Print Room operations and printing/ editing software
• Stream (track your earnings and instantly access up to 50% of your money as you earn it, without waiting for payday)
• On site parking with electric charge points
• Fully paid for staff events
• Staff restaurant serving heavily subsidised hot and cold food
• Brand new facilities
• A supportive team

Shift Pattern Days:

Sunday, Monday and Tuesday (3 days)
Shift: Day Shift
Hours: 05:30 - 17:30

Salary
L1: £13.06 per hour
L2: £13.44 per hour
L3: £13.80 per hour
(Rate dependent on experience)

Please note: this is a fixed-term contract role scheduled to end on 19 February 2027