Quality Control Technologist

6 days ago

Kendal, United Kingdom Kendal Nutricare Full time

**Quality Control Technician**

Starting at £26,000 per annum

**About us**:
We are a rapid-growth scale-up disrupting the infant nutrition space through our award-winning brand **Kendamil** - the only infant milk made in Britain, proudly used by the British Royal Family and uniquely crafted locally using British organic full cream milk, without the nasties.

Our company, Kendal Nutricare, is a 180 person team passionate about giving children a better start to life. We’re proud to be a Queens’ Award winning business and to be ranked by the Financial Times as one of Europe’s 1000 Fastest Growing Companies in 2020.

We’re on an exciting path - join us

**The role**:
Reporting to one of our Quality Managers, you will be responsible for Grading Internally produced product and Raw ingredients, monitoring and replying to customer complaints and trending lab results over time. This is a great opportunity for an individual to take on a new challenge, build on their current experience and develop themselves across different areas of the factory.

This is a full time role based at our headquarters in Kendal. Working hours are Monday - Friday, 37.5 hours per week.

Working hours will be Monday - Friday, 08:00 - 16:00.

**Responsibilities**:

- Record and advise on chemistry and microbiological testing results
- Product grading
- Raw material grading
- Responding to customer complaints
- Managing vendor complaints
- Tracking bypass rates
- Writing and tracking quality concessions
- Environmental clean sign off
- Trending results over time and reporting to the Quality Manager
- Complying with safety and hygiene procedures including but not limited to: adopting safe working practices, wearing the required protective clothing and use of safety equipment appropriate to the role

**Skills, Qualifications and Personal Attributes**:
**Experience**:

- Be self-motivated and a great team player.
- Be organised, efficient and methodical.
- Have excellent attention to detail.
- Be analytically minded and continuous improvement focused.
- Be quality focussed with a drive to ensure standards are upheld.
- Have excellent computer skills, including knowledge of Microsoft.
- Professional communication skills at all levels.

**Desirable**:

- Experience in a Quality Control role is highly desirable.
- Experience of working within the consumer goods/manufacturing industry
- Knowledge of BRC, Regulatory and customer requirements is desirable

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

**Salary**: From £26,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Canteen
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

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

**Language**:

- English (required)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: Trainee Packaging Technologist Kendal Nutricare

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