QA Coordinator

Role Description

Reporting to the site QA Manager, this role has responsibility for day-to-day management and co-ordination of the shift based QA (LS only), Lab tech (WS only) and raw material teams. This role will provide support, guidance and technical expertise ensuring the site remains focused on all aspects of food safety and quality assurance, role modelling and encouraging a quality culture.

Reporting to the site QA Manager, this role has responsibility for day-to-day management and co-ordination of the shift based QA (LS only), Lab tech (WS only) and raw material teams. This role will provide support, guidance and technical expertise ensuring the site remains focused on all aspects of food safety and quality assurance, role modelling and encouraging a quality culture.

As a Part Of The QA Function, This Role Will Work With The Site To Ensure Compliance With Food Safety Legislation, Achieve Highest Grade Possible In All External Audits, Increase Knowledge Of Food Safety And Quality And Also Improve Ways Of Working, Based On The Values Below:

• Quality
• Cost
• Delivery
• Safety
• People

6am - 6pm / 4 on 4 off

• Responsible for delivering the completion of internal audits to the set schedule.
• Responsible for ensuring incubations, drain weights and seam checks are completed as per procedures.
• Administer all the hold and rework notifications for the site.
• Responsible for the collection of and / or ordering of samples for hold investigations.
• Responsible for completing site microbiological testing programmes.
• Responsible for ensuring raw material testing is completed in a timely manner to ensure raw materials are available for use in the factory as required.
• Manage the collection and submission of samples for nutritional testing required to ensure we meeting customer COP’s.
• Responsible for raising any necessary PO’s for the dept.
• Responsible for the maintenance of the fill weight / net weight database.
• Responsible for any finished goods release required from rework.
• Responsible for authorizing first stage concessions and ensuring they are in place where there are deviations from standard processes in the factory.
• Responsible for approving new labels and maintaining the label reference documents.
• Responsible for ensuring all the QA SOP’s and task assessments are up-to-date and available.
• Responsible for delivering any QC and QA related training required on site.
• Management of the shift QA (LS only), lab tech (WS only) and RM Technicians, including EDR’s, Logitime, one to one’s, rotas, annualized hours. WS shift Co-ordinators to work with the operations teams to set objectives and contribute to the EDRs for the QA technicians

• Site: QA Manager, Shift Coordinators (all site departments), Process Improvement Coordinator, Food Safety Coordinator, Planning team, Manufacturing Managers and Coordinators, Engineering teams.
• External to site:
  Quality Systems Manager, Specifications Manager, NPD, external testing labs.

• Internal Audits
• Ensure delivery of internal audits to the defined schedule as required.
• Support and organise team, record findings and report non-conformances.
• Work with the other site teams to improve GMP and operating standards in line with site policies and procedures.

To maintain product Food Safety, Legality, Integrity, Authenticity and Quality standards by ensuring all associated policies and procedures are adhered to.

• Food Safety
• Incubations – all samples are incubated and assessed as required by customer COP’s. All results are recorded, deviations investigated and reported.
• Three-day drain weights – all post-production drain weight samples are analysed, results recorded and deviations reported.
• Seam Analysis – seam analysis is conducted on all operational production lines as defined by procedure. Results recorded, deviations reported, recommendations made. (LS)
• Concessions are reviewed as raised and approved on shift to ensure all process deviations are agreed prior to operationally becoming active / inactive in the factory.
• Suitable monitoring steps are put in place for process deviations and these are monitored for the duration of the…