Quality Technologist

7 months ago


St Leonards, United Kingdom AAK International Full time

**Salary**: £23,485-£29,386 DOE
**Hours**: Monday-Friday 07:00-15:30pm
**Location**: St Leonards-On-Sea
**Contract**: Full time, permanent
AAK is proud to be the world's leading producer of specialty vegetable fats. Through our unique co-development approach, we develop and provide value-adding vegetable oil solutions in close collaboration with our customers, enabling them to achieve long-lasting business results. By doing so, we solve customer specific needs across many industries including Bakery, Chocolate & Confectionery, Dairy, Foodservice, Infant Nutrition and Personal Care.

Our pioneering spirit and passion for innovation keeps us at the cutting edge of our industry and is what sets us apart. It enables our employees to work in a safe and supportive environment in which they make a genuine impact.

AAK employ more than 3,500 employees globally and with 20 production facilities and customisation plants, and sales offices in over 25 countries spanning six continents we have one of our industries most diverse global footprints.

**BD Foods**

BD Foods joined AAK International in 2019 as part of the Global Foodservice Group. Now AAK BD Foods, the site is a producer of tailor-made restaurant quality meal accompaniments and boasts a portfolio of over 3,000 products. With the ethos "Chefs not machines", quality and innovation are at the heart of what they do. With its purpose-built manufacturing site based in St Leonards on Sea, the Company produces solution-based chilled, ambient, and frozen products in a variety of pack formats for the food service sector.

BD Foods are seeking a Quality Technologist to join the Technical Team. The role is key to developing and maintaining the Food Safety & Quality System within the business. This role will support the Production and Warehouse Departments in achieving and maintaining the highest Food Safety and Good Manufacturing Practice standards. There will also be a customer facing element to the role in responding to customer enquiries and the completion of specifications and self-audit questionnaires. This position is ideal for someone who wants to development themselves and their technical career.

**Responsibilities**
- To carry out calibration testing of inspection, measuring and test equipment.
- To carry out routine glass and brittle plastic audits.
- To carry out routine finished product testing, EOL product testing and record to the standard required.
- To carry out routine product sampling according to the schedule.
- To routinely carry out raw material testing to the required standard.
- To assist in the maintenance of the Raw Material Specifications and supplier accreditation certificates.
- To update, maintain and use the Nutricalc System.
- To support and assist the Technical Manager with the internal auditing as required.
- To take routine swabs to verify cleaning and allergen cleaning is to the required standard.
- To ensure all records are filed accurately and methodically to the required standard.
- To ensure the collection, preparation, and dispatch of samples for microbiological testing.
- To carry out routine quality audits of key control and critical control areas in the manufacturing process.
- To monitor and record the temperatures in chilled & frozen storage areas.
- To carry out shelf-life testing of final products and maintain relevant files.
- To ensure the collection, preparation, and dispatch of samples for microbiological testing.
- To participate in the investigation of customer complaints.

**About you**
- Level 2 Food Hygiene or above
- Internal auditing
- HACCP course (ideally)
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to plan and manage own workload.
- Self-motivating
- Good Team skills
- Good IT skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc)
- Good organisational skills

**In return AAK offer**:

- Free Hot Drinks
- Free Parking Onsite
- 25 Days Holidays Plus Bank Holidays
- 30-minute paid break per shift
- Company Pension 3% Employee, 5% Employer
- Life Assurance Cover
- UK Healthcare Scheme, Including Gym, and Lifestyle Discounts

You may have experience of the following: Quality Technician, Quality Control Technician, Quality Controller, Quality Assurance, QA, Manufacturing, QA Controller, QA Technician, Quality Control Inspector, Quality Assurance Technician, Quality Auditor, Manufacturing Quality Engineer, etc.

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