<strong>Job Title:</strong> Quality Assurance Technician

<strong>Reporting to:</strong> Quality Assurance Manager

<strong>Department:</strong> Technical

<strong>Salary</strong>: TBA

<strong>Job Purpose: </strong>To   ensure that process and finished product  control, via HACCP and GMP are   effective in ensuring the safety and  quality of food manufacturing and that   they satisfy the company’s Due  Diligence requirement. To highlight issues via   audit systems and drive  through improvements. To monitor the quality and   compliance of  finished products by assessing products during finishing,   baking and  packing.  To monitor the   intake of goods to ensure that all raw  materials conform to specification and   current legislation. To ensure  that only approved suppliers are used and   assist in creating product  specifications.
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<strong>Key Result Areas:</strong>
<ul>
	<li>Ensure all products conform to company specification   and current  legislation</li>
	<li>To follow and implement hygiene, health and safety   and GMP  legislation and procedures at all times</li>
	<li>Ensure that Critical control points identified in the   HACCP system  are controlled and monitored.</li>
	<li>To implement and monitor aspects of the Quality   Management System  including knife control, blade control, internal audits,   glass  control, weight control and metal detection.</li>
	<li>Provide support to Technical, Engineering and   Production teams to  resolve site and product specific issues</li>
	<li>Assist in audit preparation and presentation</li>
	<li>Ensure that only approved suppliers are used to   supply goods,  assist in risk rating of suppliers and ensure that all products   have a  valid and current product specification.</li>
	<li>Assist in writing product specifications or internal   process  control sheets.</li>
	<li>Monitor product compliance to specification at key   stages during  the process</li>
</ul>
<strong>Key Activities:</strong>
<ol>
	<li><strong>1. </strong><strong>Principle</strong></li>
</ol>
<ul>
	<li>Monitor the functions of issue, preparation, cooking,   finishing,  packing and despatching of product to ensure that all products are    correct to specifications and handled in an appropriate manner.</li>
	<li>Monitor product performance through shift Quality   Attribute  Testing and action accordingly</li>
	<li>Monitor CCP’s (temperature of chill chain, cooking,   metal  detection)</li>
	<li>Ensure all checks and paperwork related to HACCP, QMS   and process  and QA checks is correctly completed. Daily collation, checking   and  reporting on departmental due diligence paperwork compliance.</li>
	<li>Monitor product rejection levels and report non   conformances and  rejection patterns to QA/ Technical Manager</li>
	<li>Identify corrective actions through various audits /   monitoring  schedules and ensure that corrective actions are flagged up to    relevant departments, assist in solving any issues</li>
	<li>Microbial sampling and liaison with laboratory with   respect to  sample collection.</li>
</ul>
<ol>
	<li><strong>2. </strong><strong>Additional</strong></li>
</ol>
<ul>
	<li>Provide support within the technical and production   teams to  resolve site specific issues</li>
	<li>Be proactive in dealing with issues relating to   process and  product conformance.</li>
	<li>Be proactive in decision making and problem solving   with issues  relating to positive release, fridge freezer faults, CCP’s,   internal  concessions and out of specification products</li>
</ul>