Night QA Technologist: Food Safety & Quality (Northfleet)

PrepWorld Ltd; Northfleet; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 19,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wagestream – track earnings and access

On-site parking with EV charging

Staff events

Staff restaurant with subsidised meals

Brand-new facilities

Supportive, friendly team

Job summary

PrepWorld Ltd in Northfleet, Kent, is seeking a Quality Assurance Technologist (Nights) to ensure products and production processes meet food safety, legality, authenticity and quality requirements at every stage of manufacturing.

Key duties include monitoring CCPs, GMP checks, daily QA tasks, recording traceability, supporting the Print Room and Taste Panels, and reporting concerns to QA Supervisors or the Customer Technical Team.

Qualifications

• Able to read and write in English.
• Experience in a High Care Food Industry environment is preferred.
• Experience with fresh produce is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and uphold all food safety, quality, and legal requirements.
• Assess the quality of fruit throughout production to ensure specs are met.
• Verify CCPs to ensure critical limits are consistently met.
• Carry out daily checks on factory processes and GMP compliance.
• Complete QA paperwork to record daily tasks, checks and audits.
• Maintain understanding of policies and challenge non-conformance when needed.
• Identify and report quality, food safety, or compliance concerns to QA Supervisors or Customer Technical Team.
• Create new programmes in metal detectors and check weighers; troubleshoot issues.
• Conduct internal audits (CCP, GMP, Fabrication, Glass and Hard Plastic, etc.).
• Collect and register product samples for microbiological testing.
• Follow sampling plans to take swabs, air plates and water samples.
• Follow all personal hygiene practices and report non-conformance.
• Maintain an organised, tidy working environment in the Technical Office and production areas.
• Retrieve and collate documentation to support traceability requests.
• Support Print Room operations as required.
• Conduct daily Taste Panels, supporting the Taste Panel Coordinator.
• Identify improvements and work proactively to implement them.
• Demonstrate a strong customer-focused approach in all activities.
• Provide support to the wider Technical Team when needed.

Skills

English literacy

Night shift experience

Attention to detail

Multitasking

Team player

Job description

PrepWorld Ltd in Northfleet, Kent, is seeking a Quality Assurance Technologist (Nights) to ensure products and production processes meet food safety, legality, authenticity and quality requirements at every stage of manufacturing.

Key duties include monitoring CCPs, GMP checks, daily QA tasks, recording traceability, supporting the Print Room and Taste Panels, and reporting concerns to QA Supervisors or the Customer Technical Team.