Quality Assurance Technician (nightshift) job from Avondale Foods Ltd in Craigavon BT66, United Kingdom

Scope of Role

Avondale Foods is a leading food processing company of Fresh and Chilled products supplying leading retail businesses such as Marks & Spencer, Asda and Morrison’s and Waitrose in the UK.

This key role is 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 (cooking, cooling, hot filling, ph, etc.)
• Daily temperature checks of all production rooms, chills 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 supervisor/charge-hand/manager and Senior QA/QA Team Leader
• Responsible for placing any non-conforming product On Hold/Restricted Use/Condemned 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
• Complete weekly hand washing temperature checks
• Completion of GMP Audits
• Completion of Hygiene & Fabrication Audits
• Complete equipment calibrations e.g. temperature probe, pH meters and sieves
• Completion of Corrective Action Reports for any non-conforming products or incidents to ensure effective close out identifying root cause and corrective actions
• Attendance at daily tier 1 lean board meetings and recording of daily issues onto QA lean board
• Daily Fire exit checks
• Attending taste panel as part of wider Technical Team
• Completion of weekend taste panels and communication of any issues
• Collection and storage of all retained product samples
• Weekly EOSL Reviews
• Complete specific allergen room swabbing release/product testing e.g. Gluten Free/Vegan
• Completion of weekly cooking & cooling verifications
• Creation of dummy packs for production
• Completion of Correct Action Reports for any non-conforming products or incidents
• Any other reasonable tasks related to position as deemed suitable by QA Team Leader
• To be flexible to work weekends and evenings when required

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £11.00-£12.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company events
• Discounted or free food
• Gym membership
• On-site parking

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Night shift

COVID-19 considerations:
Sanitiser
Perspex screens

Reference ID: QANS/02/22