Quality Technologist

Overview:
**PURPOSE OF ROLE: To support the QFSA team by completing routine quality, food safety and inbound tasks and reporting food safety and quality non conformances.**

**The department and team**

The technical department can be described as the ‘Conscience of the Business’ with a core remit of keeping the business informed to ensure strong strategic and tactical decision, provide customer and supplier confidence in relation to food safety and quality standards and to safeguard the business by maintaining a strong due diligence defence.

This is achieved by providing assurance that legal, customer, supplier and business standards of food quality and safety are maintained, ensuring procedural compliance, understanding and effectiveness and driving remedial actions to resolve the root cause of any issues and prevent recurrence. Additionally, the department has a responsibility to drive continuous improvement as an outcome of the core remit by setting standards and keeping abreast of developments that may impact the food industry.

**Responsibilities**:
**KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES**
- To complete all administrative tasks in relation to
- Raw material
- Inbound release
- Traceability
- To complete all assigned tasks within agreed timescales and to satisfactory standards
- To undertake equipment calibration of probes and scales
- Microbiological, allergen & hygiene swabbing within factory
- Responsible for water activity checks
- Completion of knife control and issues to operations
- Archiving of documents
- Paperwork checks
- Raw material Checks
- Assist Quality Food Safety Auditor as required
- Quality & Food Safety Auditor cover as required

Qualifications:

- Good attention to detail
- Experience in a fast paced environment
- Good team player
- SAP/computer literate
- Can follow instructions
- Proactive attitude
- Quick learner
- Excellent organisational skills