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Quality Assurance Technologist

1 month ago


Gravesend, United Kingdom PrepWorld Limited. Full time

The **Quality Assurance Technologist** 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.

**Main duties**:

- 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.

**What you need to be successful**:

- 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
- Good communicator
- Ability to multitask and prioritise
- Team worker
- (Preferable) ability to drive
- (Preferable) experience in the food industry
- (Preferable) experience with Print Room operations and printing/ editing software

**In return we provide**:

- Free parking
- 4 day work week
- Full training and PPE provided
- Recognition of good performance - rewarded with progression

**Hours and Days of Work**:
Sunday to Wednesday 17:30 - 05:30 with 1 hour break (30 minutes paid)

**Pay**:
Starting at £11.40 per hour, paid weekly. Climbing to £12.15 per hour after full training.

**Location**:
Unit K, Springhead Enterprise Park, Northfleet, Gravesend DA11 8HH

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £11.40-£12.15 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- 12 hour shift
- Night shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

- GRAVESEND: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):
**Experience**:

- Food Quality Assurance: 1 year (preferred)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Shift availability:

- Night shift (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: QATECHNS0223


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