Quality Assurance Technologist - FTC

Location: Northfleet, Kent, United Kingdom

Quality Assurance Technologist- FTC is 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.

• Ability to read and write in English
• Preferable experience in High Care Food Industry Environment
• Preferable experience working with fresh produce
• Proactive 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
• 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

Pay:
Starting from £13.06 per hour L1, to £13.44 per hour L2 and up to £13.80 per hour L3 after full training.

Days:
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday

This is an FTC role until 19/02/2027

Location:

Unit K, Springhead Enterprise Park, Northfleet, Gravesend DA11 8HH