Quality Assurance Technician - (Nights)

1. Our Vision as a business is to be the “Go-to” supplier of bakery products, working nationally with retailers such as M&S and Waitrose on their premium private label range and regionally through the Village Bakery brand.
2. You'll be ensuring that all raw materials and finished products are to specification, including carrying out relevant on-line quality checks, daily QAS checks and Taste Panels.
3. We offer professional development opportunities and qualifications.

What would you get for working here?

If you have the Quality Assurance Technician experience and skills, we are looking for then you will receive a total reward package that includes:

• A competitive hourly rate of £13.77
• 8% Pension Contribution
• 21 days annual leave (Inc of Bank Holidays)
• £250 refer-a-friend scheme
• Access to an exclusive employee benefits/discounts platform where you can save £££s on your everyday spends
• Excellent coffee machines available free-of-charge
• Professional development opportunities and qualifications
• A progressive working environment that puts its people at the heart of what it does
• Great opportunity for career development

What would you be doing?

Our Vision as a business is to be the “Go-to” supplier of bakery products, working nationally with retailers such as M&S and Waitrose on their premium private label range and regionally through the Village Bakery brand. In achieving this vision, we want to be recognised as a family business that continually invests in the future through the development of our people, quality and food safety culture, equipment and processes.

As a Quality Assurance Technician, you will be directly contributing to this vision through your core tasks and responsibilities these will include, but are not limited to:

• Ensuring that all raw materials and finished products are to specification, including carrying out relevant on-line quality checks, daily QAS checks and Taste Panels.
• Ensuring that processes and procedures are being complied with at all times across the site, including challenging non-conforming practices where identified.
• Carrying out GMP Audits as to the schedule and reporting them promptly to the relevant departmental manager, recording your findings, actions and points scored.
• Following up to ensure issues have been resolved and closed out adequately and communicating any graphs or significant trends to relevant staff.
• Lab Sampling - Take required samples, swabs, water etc according to the schedule and send for appropriate analyses. Review completed results with the Quality Manager and take any measures that may be required.
• Carry out CCP verification, scale checks and any other daily or weekly monitoring, e.g. temperatures of refrigerators, Titrations etc. Ensure that all checks are carried out at the appropriate time and that if any ‘reading’ is out of range that appropriate action is taken immediately.

What skills and qualifications would you need?

To be a successful Quality Assurance Technician you will need to demonstrate the following skills, qualifications, and attributes:

Essential

• Previous experience working as a Quality Assurance Technician in a food manufacturing environment.
• Confident working with computers, including Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook
• Self-organised, motivated, and able to prioritise work.
• Knowledge and understanding of a Bakery operation and the quality requirements of both the business and the customer.

Desirable

• BRC Audit experience
• Internal Auditor Certified
• Level 2 Food Hygiene Certified
• Level 2 HACCP Certified
• Experience working within a Bakery manufacturing environment