Qc Primal Quality

**Role Title: QC Primal Quality**

**Salary: Competitive**

**Shift: Monday-Thursday, night shift**

**Location: Huntingdon**

Hilton Foods is looking for a **QC Primal Quality** to identify and report issues between HFUK Production & Primary Process Manager and supply base, regarding issues with primal against Food Connected specifications.

**As a QC Primal Quality** **some of the responsibilities will be to**:

- Ensuring primals are within agreed Food Connected specifications.
- Correctly identify specification issues online and inform Primary Process Manager and/or Primary Process Team Manager. Check with the Planning/Trading Team if rejecting will cause shortage issues.
- To record and process intake rejections, scan rejections to the correct D.O and put the rejections onto the correct supplier pallets.
- To handle intake Temperature rejections, inform the relevant departments with the information needed, record rejection on Food Connected
- To record and report back any issues found with primals, so charges are correct to prevent losses on primals and VL’s.
- To follow up with supply sites regarding quality/primal issues of primal after agreed correction dates to ensure spec adhesion.
- Perform yield validations and understand what components are important to make a yield.
- Identify areas for yield/waste improvements and feedback to PP/Yield Manager
- Monitor lines for issues with quality and process issues and feedback correct information to management/line leaders and team members.
- Give feedback on Butcher issues to butchery trainer and supply sites to improve yield and to develop skills and knowledge.
- Communicate issues to management both verbally and written with clear and accurate detail.
- Operate and understand systems used within production (primal sequencer/FOPS6&8).
- Report issues on new processes and understand any machinery involved in these processes.
- Any other duties as may reasonably be required.
- Be familiar with and confirm to the company’s Health and Safety Programme
- Comply with all relevant Health and Safety legislation and observe all safety rules.
- Do not endanger yourself or others by your actions or omissions.
- Use appropriate protective clothing, safety equipment and safety devices always.
- Report all accidents/injuries and near misses immediately.
- Follow all instructions given by any person with a responsibility for health and safety.
- Always keep your place of work in a clean and tidy condition.
- Report all hazards / non-conformances / substandard conditions as observed and make representations for improvements to the Engineering Manager /Supervisor or safety representative.

**To succeed as a QC Primal Quality, we ask that you have the following experience/expertise**:

- Extensive process knowledge, start to finish, with ability to identify root cause.
- Understand accounts production yield sheets.
- Fops
- Understand giveaway.
- Able to identify what the trim is made up of and root cause, with ability to reduce.
- Good understanding of butchery knowledge and primal.
- Good communicator and relationship builder.
- Worked in a fast paced, pressured retail packing plant, with at least 2yrs experience.
- Previous butchery experience and can demonstrate yield improvements.
- Good English speaking/writing skills
- Highly self-motivated/good at managing their time.
- Meat/process knowledge
- Flexible working when required.
- Leaner methods of day-to-day processes

**What you get in return**:
On top of working for a fantastic organisation with a family feel and state of the art facilities you will receive a great package with competitive holiday allowance, paid overtime, life assurance of minimum two times yearly salary, opportunities for development and internal promotion, Cycle to work scheme, Share save scheme, variety of discounts at well-known retailers as well as gyms and free car parking on site along a subsidised canteen.

**About us**:
We are a company that takes pride in their people as it is our people who are at the centre of everything that we do, if you want to find out more please follow the link below.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Benefits**:

- Canteen
- Discounted or free food
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Free parking

Schedule:

- Night shift

Work Location: In person