Intake QA

Job Introduction
Come and join us We currently have an exciting opportunity for an** Intake QA** to join our team in Thetford.
- The hours of work and shift patterns are**: 0800 - 1600 Monday to Friday**:

- The rate of pay is**:£12.80 per hour**
- To effectively uphold the food safety, legal, and quality standards of 2SFG, our customers, regulatory bodies and all other interested stakeholders.
- The completion of routine and non-routine assessments in the factory environment to ensure compliance to all codes of practice
- To coach, train, advise and support the factory operations teams on matters of non-conformance and deviation to specification with specific focus on raw materials
- To act as the site Subject Matter Expert on all key raw material areas, and to manage and maintain intake database and internal specifications.

Main Responsibilities
- To comply with and uphold all company Health and Safety Procedures.
- The completion of ad-hoc audits as deemed necessary by the Shift QA Manager
- Ensure that the site CCP’s are effectively managed by the Operations team in-line with the defined procedure. All deviations from procedure are to be robustly managed and brought back into control.
- Issue Non-Conformance Reports (NCR’s) where an established protocol or standard has been compromised. The NCR is to be managed by the issuing Quality Auditor until completion of the corrective action.
- Coaching and mentoring of operations employees on technical issues particularly relating to raw materials where necessary
- Scale and probe calibrations
- Water quality checks
- Managing non-conforming product across the site.
- To conduct spot checks on temperatures of product on production lines as required
- To ensure compliance with all QAS/Quality Contracts
- To ensure key ingredients meet the required specifications through inspection upon intake.
- Managing SASSi Non-Conformances & raw material specification system.
- Attend all Tier 1 & SIC meetings - communicate raw material issues and cascade information both downwards from senior team to shop floor and upwards from shop floor to management where required.
- Carry out job related tasks on an ad-hoc basis as and when required.
- Solid level of Computer Literacy, Microsoft packages such as Excel, Word and Outlook
- Knowledge of Quality
- Excellent communication skills
- Food Safety Lvl 3
- HACCP Lvl 3
- Allergen Management
- Root Cause Analysis
- Dealing with conflict
- Assertiveness
- Time Management
- Junior management/supervisory training course

About The Company
2 Sisters Thetford is an added value site; designing, producing and packaging breaded products using best in class equipment, which enables the site to deliver significant environmental benefits. The low-energy building is the flagship development within the 2 Sisters group.

2 Sisters Food Group is one of the UK’s biggest food manufacturers providing great tasting products to the nation, from chicken to cookies and pizza to pies

With 18 sites in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. We employ over 13,500 staff, all of whom have the opportunity to progress as we focus on promoting from within and you can be part of that too.

Knowing that our business is only as good as the people we employ, we ensure that we invest in people like you to enhance skills and professional development.

Package Description
- Company Bus Service from Norwich, Attleborough, Wymondham and Thetford Centre
- Exclusive 2 Sisters employee discount - offering savings of up to 60% with brands including Asda, Morrisons, Marks and Spencer and Tesco.
- 50% off your total bill in all of our group restaurant brands
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Free onsite parking
- Hot food available on site plus free hot drinks
- Employee of the Month awards
- Fantastic development opportunities available for promotion and career development
- In-house training