Quality Assistant

3 weeks ago

Sandwich, United Kingdom Morgan Jones Full time

**Quality Assistant
Sandwich
£24k - £27k
Shift pattern 4 on 4 off and hours 7 am - 6 pm**

**Morgan Jones is working in partnership with GrowUp Farms,** a leading UK vertical farming company who have spent almost a decade growing salads at three vertical farms, bringing customers restaurant-quality leafy greens that stay fresher forlonger.

They have developed industry-leading technology integrated with renewable energy to drive down the costs and carbon footprint of vertical farming while cutting down on food waste in the supply chain and at home. Their fourth farm, currently under constructionin Sandwich, Kent, is expected to begin delivering its first harvest of ready-to-eat salad leaves to U.K. supermarket shelves in the 22/23 winter season.

They are a fast-growing dynamic team, who cares passionately about what they’re doing. They’re interested in people who want to help turn food production on its head, who are naturally entrepreneurial, commercial, and restless to make it happen.

**Your Role**

We are looking for a Quality Assistant to work at the heart of the manufacturing operation, where you will be supporting the site in producing delicious food products by providing first-hand quality & technical support, ensuring site compliance and day-to-daytask.

The position is a blend of supporting the teams in ensuring the site conforms to customer and BRCGS standards and handling daily quality checks.

**Compliance**
- Ensure compliance to BRCGS and Retailer Standards and ensure all procedures & policies within the Food Safety and Quality Manual are adhered to.
- Responsible for the document management system
- Responsible for complaint investigations, technical data gathering
- Manage the site Internal Auditing to include GMP, glass, wood and other physical audits and support the team for improving standards
- Ensure checks, such as temperature & weighing equipment, are carried out as per procedures
- To develop and maintain systems for New Product Development, recording results from trials and using the data to manage and create the relevant documentation (QAS, Specification, Analysis)
- To complete and assist with customer specification data bases
- To provide training for new starters and to develop training when needed like microbiological sampling, etc.
- To collect data for the quality / technical KPI

**Day to day**
- To ensure and inspect all finished products are produced, packed, and labelled per customer requirements. Ensure paperwork accuracy.
- To ensure CCPs, traceability systems for inputs, work in progress and finished products, and all other process control parameters are being followed throughout the site, suitably monitored and under control, and provide the relevant training
- To develop, implement, manage an appropriate regime for the microbiological testing of product and environment by dealing with external laboratory and be responsible for the monitoring, update, and an analysis of the sampling plan (microbiological, Environmental,water)
- To maintain appropriate regime for shelf-life, customers testing, laboratory testing, and ensure that accurate records are maintained
- To develop and assist the Grower Manager to maintain systems for monitoring the specification of inputs and packaging material intake, ensuring quality standards and specifications are maintained
- To lead investigations with the relevant team and root cause analysis for all non-conformances and customer complaints

**Health and Safety and Food Safety**
- Meet all personal and role responsibilities as required under the company health and safety at work policy, and HACCP
- Work in safe manner to eliminate personal risk and risk to others
- Work as a role model when conducting your duties
- Support and promote an active Food and Safety Culture
- Address or report any hazard observed immediately, health or food related
- Ensure correct PPE is always worn by the team
- Maintain personal hygiene to a high standard
- Immediately investigate & report any workplace incidents

**Key Competencies**
- Excellent communication skills both written & verbal
- Self-motivated and organised
- Problem solving
- Good relationship building abilities and influencing skills, strong team player
- Attention to detail
- Proactive attitude
- Results focused
- Experience of implementing procedures and work instructions within Quality Management Systems
- Good level of numeracy
- IT literate: able to produce documents and reports to support communication with clear justifications.

**What’s in it for you?**
- Be part of a great business - you will be onboard one of the fastest growing and most exciting businesses in the vertical farming industry
- Be part of a great team - you will work with and learn from a friendly, smart, growing, and passionate team who care about each other and the business
- Grow yourself - a chance to develop yourself and make the role your own as the business and team builds, broadening your knowledge and capabilities to push you to the next level
- Share our passion for driving change for good - sustainable production is at the heart of what we do and we’re on the journey to B Corp certification

**Benefits**
- 25 days holiday
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Pension
- Employee benefits programme with Bravo Benefit

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