QA, QA

Pilgrim's Europe; Bodmin; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay rates

Premium overtime rates

Free on-site parking

Weekly pay

Staff sales access

Refer a Friend Scheme

Discounts on retail, cinema, travel

Life assurance policy

Long service award

Job summary

Pilgrim’s Europe is seeking a QA on-site at Bodmin to safeguard product quality and ensure compliance with specifications. You will support on-site NPD activities to implement trials and launches to the required standard.

You will promote Food Safety, coordinate QA tasks, assist in internal audits, and help with investigations and non-conformance management while working closely with customers and external agencies. This role runs Monday to Friday with early hours and competitive benefits.

Qualifications

• Experience in a QA related function
• Experience in internal audits
• Organised and able to work to tight deadlines and under pressure
• Excellent communication skills and ability to talk to customers and external agencies
• Ability to influence internal and external stakeholders
• Diligence in GMP standards to achieve high quality products
• RCA skills for problem solving
• Strong IT skills and attention to detail

Responsibilities

• Actively promote Food Safety and product quality
• Co-ordinate tasks to ensure OTIF delivery for factory QA
• Assist site internal audit program to required timescales
• Assist in complaints, investigations and non-conformance management
• Maintain site calibration schedule and ensure timely calibrations
• Review Technical Hub for QA information dissemination at Bodmin
• File and organize technical factory documentation
• Coordinate internal specifications and QA documentation
• Support visits or audits by customers or external agencies
• Obtain samples for taste panels and repeat testing when required
• Promote health and safety in daily operations
• Support the Quality Manager with ad hoc tasks
• Demonstrate flexibility to cover audits and holidays

Skills

Excellent communication

Strong IT skills

Attention to detail

Team player

RCA skills

GMP standards

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Education

Level 3 Food Safety

Level 3 HACCP

Minimum 5 GCSEs (English, Maths, Science)

Food safety degree (desirable)

Lead auditor/internal audit training (desirable)

Knowledge of microbiology (desirable)

Job description

BodminQA function on site to ensure complaint quality product is being produced that meets specification. Assist in the on-site NPD function to ensure all trials and launches are implemented to the required standard

Join Pilgrim’s Europe as a QA in Bodmin QA function on site to ensure complaint quality product is being produced that meets specification. Assist in the on-site NPD function to ensure all trials and launches are implemented to the required standard

Salary & Benefits

• Competitive pay rates
• Premium overtime rates
• Free on-site parking
• Weekly pay
• Access to occasional staff sales, offering discounted company products
• Refer a Friend Scheme
• Discount on retail, cinema, travel and much more
• Life assurance policy
• Long service award

Shift Pattern

• Monday to Friday
• 07:00am to 16:00pm

Responsibilities

• Actively promote Food Safety and product quality
• Responsible for task co-ordination to ensure that all required tasks of the factory QA function are delivered OTIF
• Assist the site internal audit program to the timescales and to the required standard
• Assist in complaints, investigations and site generated non-conformance management.
• Responsible for site calibration schedule ensuring calibrations are completed to the required schedule
• Responsible for regular reviews of the Technical Hub to ensure that all information related to the QA function is acknowledged and distributed accordingly across the Bodmin site
• Assist the filing of technical factory documentation ensuring that they are filed to the required standard
• Responsible for co-ordination of internal specifications, including on-line specifications, intake specifications and QAS
• Being a key stakeholder in any visits or audits rom customers or other external agencies
• Obtain samples for taste panels, and any repeat testing samples as required.

Other Key Accountabilities

• Actively promote and deliver good health and safety working conditions and practices
• Any other task as is reasonably requested to support the effective operation of the site
• Demonstrate flexibility around working hours as required to facilitate customer audits and visits, holiday cover and other business needs as directed by Quality Manager.

Requirements

• Working safely every day
• Experience in a QA related function
• Experience in internal audits
• Organised and able to work to tight deadlines and under pressure
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to talk to customers and external agencies
• Able to influence internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to collate and process information rapidly and make agile decisions relating to food safety, legality and quality within remit
• Demonstrate exceptional GMP standards to achieve high quality products
• RCA skills
• Team player
• Strong IT Skills
• Eye for Detail

Qualifications

• Holding or working towards Level 3 Food Safety
• Holding or working towards level 3 HACCP
• Minimum 5 GCSE’s (or equivalent) including English, Maths and Science
• Desirable - Food safety degree or 3 years experience in the food industry
• Desirable - Lead auditor or Internal audit training
• Desirable - Knowledge of microbiology