QA Inspector

**About The Role**:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a **Quality Assurance Inspector** to join our House Plants and Flowers team. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is looking to take the next step in their career and join a global business with a £2 billion + turnover.

**Sunday - Thursday, 8am - 4:45pm**

Your key responsibilities will include:

- Complete Product inspections to ensure Product & Packaging is within ASDA specification
- To complete a full quality assurance inspection of products arriving on site
- Completion of accurate QA reports without impacting the operation
- Fast Track positive release of products to Depot
- To interact with the site operations to ensure compliance is being maintained at all times
- Stand in for QA Leader
- Where necessary - QA to cover third party sites locations UK over event campaign
- Ensure that Vase life is carried out as per the site schedule
- Raw material testing and trials conducted in line with site process and colleague request
- Competitor vase life completion as per site and relevant team request
- On line inspections as per the site requirement against all Asda specifications
- Completion of all systems and line documentation within operations
- Challenge and effectively communicate to all relevant team in the wider business
- Commercial/Planning
- Complete all raw material documentation and effectively communicate to Country offices colleagues and relevant grower base
- To complete all training requirements and SOP/ guidelines
- Oversee stock rotation on line and report any breaches to the site shelf life rules
- Randomly inspect finished goods against FG specification
- To promptly act within production online inspection s following depot communications
- Flexible shift working approach -events / campaign
- Report any quality issues to quality SOL and planning functions

**What are we looking for?**
- Good IT Skills (PowerPoint, Word, Excel)
- Previous QA experience (preferable within factory / manufacturing / fresh produce environment)
- Product knowledge (HP&F)
- A natural communicator and team worker
- Previously worked in a factory environment (desirable)
- HACCP knowledge (desirable)

**What's in it for you?**

We are a rapidly growing and exciting business, dedicated to the development of our colleagues and committed to creating a great environment for people to come and work. In order to grow we need to find people already living our values, culture and commitment.

In return we will offer you development, a competitive salary and benefits package, inclusive of:

- 10% Asda In store Discount
- Colleague Bonus Scheme
- Paid Annual Leave Allowance - varies dependant on shift pattern
- Enhanced pension scheme
- Life Assurance - All our colleagues benefit from life assurance of 4 x their annual base salary.
- Grocery Aid - We’ve partnered with Grocery Aid to our colleagues and their families with a wide range of emotional, practical and financial support services.
- Asda mobile Discount - 30% off a wide range of Asda Mobile bundles and add-ons for our colleagues and one of their family members.
- Asda Pet Insurance discount - Up to 10% Discount
- Exclusive Exchange Rates via Asda Money - our colleagues can get a better exchange rate for their travel money when buying currency through Asda Travel Money (TravelEx)
- Ride-to-work scheme - We work with Evans to provide our colleagues with great savings across their range of bikes, clothing and equipment.
- Free car parking
- Plus lots more - Depending on job band, other fantastic benefits are also available including private healthcare, car allowances and long term incentive schemes.

**About Us**: Our **purpose** here at IPL, Forza & Kober is simple, we are one team who creates exceptional value for our customers and our **mission** is to support Asda on their journey to becoming #2 in the marketplace.

Through our people we live and breathe our **values** and we play to our strengths, but we also support each other’s development. We are a community of passionate individuals who possess a wide variety of skills and expertise, who work collectively to form a high performing team and a company to be proud of.

**_Our culture is our people and our people are our culture_