QA - Food Industry

**Why come to Danish Crown? - Here’s a few reasons for you to think about.**

An **amazing** 28 days’ holiday plus bank holidays - that’s 36 days holiday a year

**Enhanced** maternity, paternity, adoption and share parental leave

**Enhanced** company sick pay

**Matched **company pension scheme

**Heavily discounted** meat for all staff through the staff shop and seasonal **free** meat boxes for the family

**Well-being programmes**, with free optional health care cash plans to cover your everyday healthcare costs and which offer a wide range of digital and virtual wellbeing tools to support both your health and the people you care about.

**Free** Employee Assistance Programme for all colleagues and their families

**Free** parking

**Free **tea and coffee on all sites

Development opportunities for those that would like to **progress** in a global business

**Who are Danish Crown?**

We are a food company owned by Danish farmers, supplying high-quality food to customers and consumers all over the world. From butchers to business developers, we are more than 26,000 colleagues, all committed to lowering our carbon footprint and becoming climate neutral by 2050, for better food and a brighter future.

The employee in this position reports to the Site QA Manager. This is a shop floor-based role so is suitable for someone who enjoys a hands-on position and requires building a strong working relationship with Production.

**Main Responsibilities**
- Ensuring compliance to site policies, procedures and customer COP’s.
- Completion of esmiley records
- HACCP Team member
- Assist in upholding BRC requirements on site
- Reviewing the production records and assisting Production with their completion.
- Being the main point of contact on the factory floor regarding food safety and legal compliance
- Ensuring the timely and accurate completion of all technical records
- Ensuring the factory is operating to the required GMP standards
- Carrying out Factory and Process audits
- Working alongside / with the production and management team to assist with non-conformance's and operational issues
- Providing support during customer audits and visits as and when required
- Ensuring products meet customer specification
- Providing technical support and cover as and when needed
- Internal audit completion
- Complaint completion

Also, completing any reasonable additional tasks to support business needs as required.

**Experience**
- QA/Technical experience & experience of External audits (BRC)
- A good level of computer skills (Outlook, Excel, Word, Power Point), competent in report writing
- Good understanding of basic food microbiology
- Food Hygiene training
- Knowledge of food legislation
- Good working knowledge of HACCP / BRC
- Experience of working within a factory environment
- Internal audit skills, ability to complete an internal audit, communicate and close the actions
- Complaints / Non-Conformance's investigation and management experience
- Good communication skills, ability to communicate precise information to help deal with food safety incidents.
- Ability to work under pressure and deliver to deadlines
- Flexibility and ability to multi-task

**Salary**: £25,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Bereavement leave
- Canteen
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Free flu jabs
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Store discount
- Transport links

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- OL164SY: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- QA: 2 years (preferred)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person