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Quality Assurance Assistant

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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