Technologist

**Posted**:26/04/2024 09:40**Salary**:30000**Location**:Sittingbourne**Level**:Employee**Deadline**:26/07/2024 23:59**Hours**:40.00**Benefits**:Holiday, EAP, Pension**Job Type**:PermanentJob Title**: Technologist**

Reports To**:Technical Manager**

Location**:Sittingbourne**

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**Role Summary**:
Maintain and develop site compliance as per customer requirements, including but not limited to BRC food standard, TESCO Food Standard, Organics and Ethical.

Help to drive a culture of compliance and adherence to standards within production through coaching employees/workers and managers and auditing compliance against the standards’ requirements.

To work closely with site Operational and Quality teams to ensure compliance and understanding of the standards.

Assist and deputise for the Technical Manager when absent from site or as required.

**Main Responsibilities**:

- Working closely with Operational, Quality and other teams on site to ensure full understanding, acceptance and compliance with the required standards. Support the Technical Manager to ensure that the site is audit ready at all times holding teams to account for their performance.
- Assisting the Technical manager with HACCP, QA Management Standards and Technical documentation on site contributing to create and maintain a single ‘ISS standard’ with best practice being adopted across the business. This is to include BRC, Organic, Tesco Food Standard, Ethical and any other customer standards that may be required.
- Support the Technical Manager with the internal audit schedule. Play a key part in internal auditing and assisting others where required to complete their internal audits. Monitor, measure and communicate the success of corrective actions undertaken and take further action as appropriate.
- Ensuring all testing relating to the Quality Management System is carried out as per the schedule
- Hosting Technical 3rd party audits and visits on behalf of the Technical Manager as required. Documenting all non-conformances and assist with their root cause analysis, as well as completing corrective actions within agreed timescales.
- Reporting site Technical KPIs to the Technical Manager and relevant teams to drive continuous improvement.

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**Qualifications and Skills**:

- Degree qualified in Food Science or Agricultural based studies, or similar. OR equivalent work based experience
- Attention to detail. Excellent communicator. Excellent level of English.
- Work well under pressure and meet deadlines.
- Ability to empathise and drive continuous improvement.
- Desirable at least 1 years’ experience in a Technical role.
- Minimum of Level 2 HACCP and Food Safety (Level 3 desirable).
- Internal Auditing qualification.

**Measure of Performance/Key Deliverables**:

- Internal KPIs
- Efficiency of workload
- Accuracy of work
- Attention to detail
- Relationships with your teammates and with colleagues in other teams at ISS (mainly in the Quality and Operational teams)