Quality Assurance Operative

Position: Quality Assurance Operative (Permanent)
Role:
Quality Assurance Operative (Nights)

Salary: £27,388 per annum

Location:

Lacock, Wiltshire

Working Hours:

18.00pm – 02.00am, Monday – Friday

Stonegate are currently seeking a Quality Assurance Operative to join our Packing Centre. As a Quality Assurance Operative you will support the quality improvement and right-first-time agenda so that products are legally manufactured and compliant with customer specifications. Reporting to the Quality Assurance Manager, you will foster a climate of quality and safety awareness at all stages of production within the centre to ensure product excellence.

About Stonegate Farmers Ltd

Stonegate Farmers Ltd is an integrated free range and organic egg business organised across three divisions comprising farming and agriculture, egg packing and cooked egg processing. Established in 1926 and under new ownership since 2016, we have grown into one the largest free-range and organic egg producers within the UK.

Moving millions of mother nature’s most fragile food items every day takes finesse and know how. We work closely with our producers to collect, grade and package each individual egg. So many fresh eggs requires fresh thinking therefore we only employ the most enthusiastic people for our operations, who have hearts of gold – just like our eggs!

We deliver daily from hen houses right across the country to the most exclusive restaurants and to many of the UK’s leading supermarkets, together with first class egg products to some of the biggest names in food manufacturing.

Role & Responsibilities:

* To maintain the elements of the quality system to fully meet the requirements of Company Practices, Codes of Practice and customer protocols

* To maintain and update as required all component specifications, product specifications, Stonegate QA and HACCP Manual, Egg Marketing Regulations and customer specifications.

* To conduct checks of egg as detailed in the QA manual

* To ensure all records are checked, reviewed and signed off

* To assist with the investigation into all complaints and quality failures and make recommendations for corrective action and future prevention.

* To conduct in-depth checks of egg and packing materials when requested by the QA team and to produce reports of the findings

* To audit the relevant sections of the Quality Management system in order to ensure compliance and report all non-conformances

Person Specification:

* Able to display our company values:
Respect, Aspire, Courage, One Team & Diversity

* Strong planning and organisation skills

* Good attention to detail

* Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

* Ability to work within a team

Qualifications /

Experience:

* Previous experience working within Quality Assurance, ideally within food manufacturing

* Understanding of HACCP

* Food Safety Level 2 (desirable)