Food Safety and Quality Technician

Recruiter
Confidential
Location
Wisbech
Salary
Competitive
Posted
30 Jul 2021
Closes
27 Aug 2021
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Food Safety and Quality Technician

Monday - Thursday 8.00am-5.00pm Friday 8.00am-3.00pm

A vacancy has arisen at the Wisbech site for the above role within the technical team. This is a weekly paid permanent role.

Reporting to the Technical Quality Service Coordinator, the role provides a Quality and Technical service to the QA /Tech Department to ensure standards of product safety and legality are consistently applied and maintained. This role does not have decision-making responsibility, but is responsible for reporting all discrepancies in test results and any issues identified to the Technical Administrator.

Job Purpose:

As part of the QA function this role will work with the site to ensure compliance with food safety legislation in order to achieve highest grade possible in all external audits, increase knowledge of food safety and quality.

* Setting up, conducting and clearing away the daily taste panel.

* Inputting results from the daily taste panel, reporting and trending.

* Scoring production runs, and making decisions whether product needs to be isolated or downgraded for further improvement.

* Isolating products on the day from the taste panel as required whether it be a food safety issue or a quality issue.

* Responsible for sensory screening for site.

* Collecting and delivering samples for external testing.

* Administration of Nutritional samples from the nutritional schedule for customers Code of Practise and to apply to the ALS website.

* Responsible for supplying correct Quality Attribute Sheets for Taste Panel and colleagues.

* Set up sampling of isolated stock .

* Effective and timely communication of key information to QA Administrator and QA Team.

* Ensuring that all testing is completed accurately, to agreed schedules; the results recorded neatly and forms filed for easy retrieval

* Cover Complaints administration

Skills

Up to date IT skills

Current drivers licence

Competencies

Level 2 HACCP

Level 2 Food Safety