Quality and Standards Coordinator

6 days ago


Milton Keynes, United Kingdom Refresco Full time

Refresco, the world’s largest independent soft drinks manufacturer, is seeking a **Quality and Standards Coordinator** based at our Milton Keynes site. We are fast-paced, and hugely customer-driven, always looking to innovate, develop, and improve what we do, and this creates the opportunity for you to develop and grow your career with us. Our people are friendly, open, and approachable, hugely supportive, and we have undergone high growth and great change over the past 5 years and expect to again double in size over the next 5 years.

**Quality and Standards Coordinator**
**6 month FTC**
**Monday - Thursday 8:30 am - 5 pm and Friday 8:30 am - 4 pm**

**Reward & Benefits**:

- 27 days annual leave + bank holidays
- Purchase additional holidays
- Employee referral scheme - earn a bonus for referring your friends or family
- GroceryAid - a support service offering financial, legal, wellbeing and practical support, advice and counselling
- Cheers - a benefits platform offering discounts, free perks, and well-being tools for all employees
- Free onsite parking

**What you’ll be doing as a Quality and Standards Coordinator**
To support the Food safety and quality improvement and right first time agenda so that products are legally and safely manufactured in compliance with customer and internal Company specifications and standards. To facilitate the launch of new customers, products, and processes into manufacturing.

**Key responsibilities of the role**:

- Review of current Micro processes and practices to drive continual laboratory improvement.
- Investigate microbial Out Of specification results determining the root cause corrective action necessary to prevent reoccurrence.
- Cover Laboratory technicians when needed (sickness, holidays)
- Complete GMP and Hygiene audits to required schedule
- Coordinate cleaning schedules with cleaning contractors
- Assist in the investigation of consumer complaints determining root cause and corrective action necessary to prevent reoccurrence.
- Participate in the internal audit schedule completing audits as necessary to demonstrate compliance with company, customer, and industry standards
- Where applicable take samples in accordance site quality plan ensuring the samples are analyzed in a timely manner and results reported / escalated as appropriate.
- Complete traceability exercises to agreed plan.
- Completion of operational QC compliance audits, reporting of non-conformances and ensuring corrective action is in place and monitored to prevent reoccurrence.
- Assist to new starters and provide refresher training verification of new equipment or micro tests processes, ensure that internal and external customer expectations are reviewed.
- Actively participate in the implementation of site quality improvement projects, where necessary providing support to train operation teams and monitor project effectiveness.
- To be a member of the HACCP team ensuring micro process, equipment are taken into risk assessments.

**Management of pest controllers to**:

- Be the main point of contact between the pest control contractor and site
- Communicate corrective actions identified by the pest control contractor to the relevant personnel and monitor to ensure they are completed to an appropriate standard and to the agreed timescale
- Make sure pest control activities and records meet requirements to pass customer and external audits

**About you**
- Organised and persistent, able to work alone but able to achieve the desired results through influencing people.
- Demonstrable team player
- Degree in a Science or Food Technology or relevant industry experience in an influential technical/quality role.
- Demonstrable operational experience, together with significant exposure, gained ideally in a fast-moving consumer goods environment.
- Fully conversant with modern manufacturing methodologies.
- Innovative and entrepreneurial thinker, interested in food and drink and improving quality systems.

**About Refresco**
Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We’re a global business and currently produce 14 billion litres of soft drinks from 78 manufacturing plants in Europe, North America and we've just opened in Australia, and we’re only just getting started. We have grown from just 2 sites in 1999. Our Group Headquarters are based in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
We’re the proud owners of six drinks manufacturing sites within the UK. Our UK business provides a great place to work for over 1,800 employees, who produce private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading UK supermarkets, plus some of the best-known UK drinks brands such as Monster Energy, Ocean Spray, and Innocent.

From the purchasing of the raw materials such as fruit juices and CO2, through to the finished product delivered to your table, we cover the full manufacturing cycle for our customers. And, whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles, or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the hi



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