Quality Assurance Assistant
Job now closed
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:
Responsible for food safety and quality, ensuring that all products are produced to customer specifications/guidelines. Ensuring that all food safety and quality records are maintained.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Daily verification of all CCPs
- Daily temperature checks of all production rooms, chills, water and products
- Daily quality checks on all ingredients, WIP materials and finished products to ensure correct quality and traceability
- Complete Daily GMP walk around production area and highlight any non- conformances to the QA or production Manager
- Responsible for placing any non-conforming product On Hold and completing relevant On Hold Log
- Completing of Daily/Monthly/Quarterly Glass & Hard Plastic Audits
- Verify finished product labels and crate/case end labels to ensure correct Use By Dates
- Completion of GMP Audits
- Completion of Hygiene & Fabrication Audits
- Complete equipment calibrations e.g. temperature probe, pH meters and scales
- Completion of Corrective Action Reports for any non-conforming products or incidents to ensure effective close out identifying root cause and corrective actions
- Daily Fire exit checks
- Attending taste panel/ tastings as part of wider Technical Team
- Collection and storage of all retained product samples
- Weekly EOSL Reviews
- Complete specific allergen room swabbing release/product testing
- Any other reasonable tasks related to position as deemed suitable by QA Team Manager
- To be flexible to work weekends and evenings when required.
COMMUNICATION AND WORK RELATIONSHIPS
Effectively communicate with employees at all levels within the business from operatives, supervisors/chargehands and managers.
SCOPE FOR IMPACT
Ensuring that finished product meets all food safety and quality aspects of customer specifications and standards.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, EXPERIENCE, PERSONALITY REQUIRED
Essential
- Knowledge of food safety principles
- Good knowledge of General Manufacturing Practices
- Good working knowledge of MS Word and Excel are essential.
- Good verbal & written communications Skills (High standard of English essential)
- Flexible approach to working hours to cover needs of the business
Desirable
- Ability to problem solve is desirable
- Level 2 Food Safety
- Level 2 HACCP
- Working towards a Food related qualification
Please apply by E mail attaching your CV to Quality@sillisprepveg.ie
Closing date for all applications is Friday 22nd March 2024