Quality Assurance Technician

Join this dynamic team focused on delivering better nutrition for every step of life’s journey.

Responsible for ensuring all products & product quality/ food safety processes comply with specified requirements. Maintaining and assisting the QA Manager to deliver continuous improvement in your areas of responsibility and across the site, whilst encouraging best practice at all levels within the organisation to promote a right first-time approach to quality. Effectively control and drive internal product safety and quality records within the business to keep all parties appropriately informed, whilst maintaining control of the process and outcomes.

12 Hour shifts working a 4 day on 4 day off pattern, alternating between 4 day shifts 6am – 6pm to 4 night shifts 6pm – 6am

The welfare of your colleagues is paramount, and you must promote and support a safe working environment and foster a culture of “safety first”.

• Ensure the working environment, equipment, plant, and people always meet with internal health and safety standards through specified start up checks and periodic online checks.
• Where hazards are identified, and risk levels are deemed unacceptable immediate action must be taken by you to remove the hazard or where this is not possible reduce the risk to acceptable levels. Hazards and actions must be recorded through near miss tool/ hold tool/ shift reports/ foreign body tool as necessary.
• Completion of risk assessments as coordinated by the QA Manager through scheduled requirements or where circumstances, equipment or people change from previously agreed standards.
• Ensure safe systems of work, standard operating procedures and health and safety requirements as documented under the GPN (Middlesbrough) Health, Safety and Welfare Manual are always followed. Where practices have moved or where improvements are possible, report these to the QA Manager or EHS Manager in good time for consideration.
• Support and drive the business accident prevention initiatives through the reporting of potential accidents through the Near Miss reporting tool.

Maintaining the integrity of our products and therefore the business itself is an absolute. You must ensure this is always the case as we never knowingly compromise product safety, authenticity of legality.

• Responsible for ensuring the CCP’s are under control on a daily basis by documented periodic checks and verification of documented checks by production Operational Line Leaders and Senior Operators.
• Ensure all safety and quality requirements are complied with at all times.
• Ensure the positive release of production lines when moving from a gluten product to a gluten free product through a specified method of rapid allergen swabbing. Ensure results are documented and communicated to site teams.

Never knowingly compromise on quality, striving for the highest possible standards of quality in our

products, people and plant.

• Ensure all products meet the requirements of the internal specifications and are produced in line with the requirements of the Quality Management System. This will be ensured through completion of quality documentation in accordance with policies, procedures and work instructions.
• Ensure all relevant BRCGS, customer and regulatory standards are met and maintained as specified by the QA Manager and the Quality Management System.
• Ensure product quality by ensuring specifications and customer requirements are met.
• Ensure glass and hygiene audits are carried out as scheduled.
• Ensure product reference samples are maintained and ensure the testing of finished products and hygiene/ micro swabs in line with the sample plan.
• Ensure shelf-life testing of…