QA Support

The role involves assessing and monitoring the quality of incoming, in-production, and packed products, ensuring adherence to standard operating procedures, conducting tests and checks, and verifying that packaging and labelling meet required specifications. It also includes ensuring product safety, legality, authenticity, quality, and brand integrity, in line with site policies. The position requires maintaining health & safety, hygiene, and security standards, while adhering to environmental practices. Additionally, the role demands the demonstration of Driscoll’s values of passion, humility, and trustworthiness in all interactions. **Responsibilities**: - Perform intake quality assessments as needed and provide daily reports to suppliers. - Monitor product quality during the packing process, ensuring compliance with approvals, labelling, packaging, and specific requirements, while liaising with production teams. - Maintain a thorough understanding of customer specifications and packing requirements. - Ensure adherence to relevant Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). - Carry out sample preparation and assist the technical team when necessary. - Calibrate measuring and monitoring equipment as required. - Complete shelf-life assessments accurately and in a timely manner. - Liaise with production management and the allocation team to resolve any quality-related issues. - Ensure packed products meet customer specifications and complete necessary positive release checks. - Uphold high standards of health, safety, and hygiene through the "clean as you go" policy. - Take samples for analysis and quality control purposes. - Manage and cover three production lines independently. - Conduct metal detection and checkweigher checks to ensure product accuracy. - Perform routine checks on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. - Support operations teams and other departments as needed. - Provide support to the QA Manager and QA Supervisors as required. - Undertake other ad hoc duties as required. - Evidence of experience working in a comparable role, preferably within the soft fruit industry. - Strong appreciation of our business needs and resourcefulness in coming up with solutions to their challenges. - Ability to relate to key client personnel in a professional and credible fashion. - Well-developed personal and written communication skills. - Ability to work independently and as part of a team with colleagues across professional, operational, and cultural boundaries. - Proactive approach and prompt responses to all service requests. - Good time management and organisational skills with the ability to handle several tasks at once. - Good IT skills including experience of Word and Excel. **About Driscolls**: Driscoll's is the global market leader for fresh strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries. With more than 100 years of farming heritage and hundreds of independent growers around the world, Driscoll's is passionate about growing fresh, beautiful and delicious berries. Our values of humility, passion and trustworthiness have guided our mission to delight consumers around the world. Driscoll's exclusive patented berry varieties are developed through years of research using only natural breeding methods - meaning, no GMOs. From farm-to-table, we focus on delivering a high quality, premium berry experience with our many supply chain partners. Driscoll's is the trusted brand for Only the Finest Berries. Driscoll's es el proveedor líder en la comercialización de Fresas, Frambuesas, Zarzamoras y Arándanos Azules en el mundo. Con más de 100 años de herencia en agricultura y cientos de productores independiente alrededor del mundo, Driscoll's es una compañía apasionada por cultivar Berries frescas, hermosas y deliciosas. Nuestros valores de humildad, pasión y confianza han guiado nuestra misión de deleitar a los consumidores en el mundo. Las variedades exclusivas de Driscoll's han sido desarrolladas a través de años de investigación usando sólo métodos de mejoramiento natural. De la granja a la mesa, nos enfocamos en ofrecer una experiência de alta calidad con apoyo de nuestros socios de la cadena de suministro. Driscoll's es la marca de confianza de sólo las mejores Berries.