QA Technologist (Food) - Ebbw Vale

<p>QA Technologist (3 Shift) </p><p>£27'000 </p><p>This role is a set 6am to 2pm shift. </p><p>This company It produces a range of food products for retail and food service markets. The company supplies both branded and own-label items to customers in the UK and internationally. </p><p><strong>Salary & Benefits: </strong> </p><ul><li>A starting salary of up to £27'000 </li><li>up to 25 days holiday plus bank holidays </li><li>Free on-site car parking </li><li>Excellent training and development </li> </ul><p><strong>Roles & Responsibilities: </strong> </p><ul><li>To ensure that all products manufactured comply with customer standards including quality, safety and legality. </li><li>To collate product samples for routine microbiological testing and organise retained samples. </li><li>To assist in all site visits and audits and support Technical and Production teams. </li><li>To maintain a technical presence on the factory floor throughout the shift and provide technical support to production team. </li><li>Setting the standards on the factory floor and improving upon these with production teams through coaching and knowledge transfer. </li><li>Ensuring that the factory floor is audit ready 365 days of the year. </li><li>Attendance to daily management meetings. </li><li>To ensure CCP audits and training are carried out to schedule. </li><li>To support in collating taste panel samples and EOL taste panel samples. </li><li>To carry out post hygiene audits and GMP audits and close out any non-conformances raised with production and engineering. </li><li>To carry out daily black bags audits to remove potential foreign bodies from the all areas and raise within the daily meeting and with production teams. </li> </ul><p><strong>Knowledge, Skills & Experience: </strong> </p><ul><li>Relevant Food Science Qualification or degree </li><li>Experience within Food Industry or similar role desirable </li><li>Basic Food Hygiene qualification </li><li>Ability to operate Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook </li><li>Taking and uploading of photos on to the computer to use within reports. </li> </ul><p><strong>If you would like more information, please contact Kieran Russell </strong> </p> <p>If you are interested in this position please click 'apply'. </p><p>Hunter Selection Limited is a recruitment consultancy with offices UK wide, specialising in permanent & contract roles within Engineering & Manufacturing, IT & Digital, Science & Technology and Service & Sales sectors. </p><p><br /><em>Please note as we receive a high level of applications we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. </em> </p><p><em>For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business. </em> </p> <strong>Job Tenure: Permanent </strong> <strong>Salary: £27000 - £28000 per annum </strong> <strong>Location: Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent </strong>