Quality Assurance Assistant

Bidfood UK; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading foodservice provider in the UK is seeking a Quality Assurance team member to ensure fresh produce meets quality standards. The role involves working in a chilled warehouse, performing quality checks, and ensuring food safety compliance. Candidates should have good communication skills, attention to detail, and ideally, experience with fresh produce. This full-time position offers competitive pay and various company benefits, including a pension scheme, employee discounts, and health plans.

Benefits

Company pension

Employee discount

Free parking

On-site parking

Qualifications

• 1 year experience working with fresh produce preferred.
• Food safety qualifications preferred.

Responsibilities

• Quality check incoming products before acceptance.
• Ensure compliance with food safety.
• Report issues to onsite QA management.

Skills

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Time management

Ability to work independently

Job description

About the role

Oliver Kay have been established for over 30 years, supplying fresh ingredients each day, directly to chefs and professional kitchens. Oliver Kay continues to sit within Bidfood, offering financial security and reassurance to customers and colleagues. We are increasing the QA team to help support the growing demands of the business

About The Role

• Working in a chill warehouse where manual handling is required.
• To ensure the safe and efficient receipt, storage and dispatch of ambient, chilled and specialty products to feed the flow of business operations while providing Service Excellence to internal and external customers.
• To check fresh produce for size, weight and quality on incoming deliveries
• To work as part of the QA team

What You'll Be Doing

• To be a key member of the onsite QA team, ensuring incoming products are quality checked prior to receipt and acceptance of goods.
• Be a proactive member of the team that ensures food safety compliance.
• Highlight any issues to the onsite QA management team

About You

• Clear, precise and confident communication skills.
• Thorough with a good attention to detail. Time management and work prioritisation skills
• Ability to work both as part of a team and independently as necessary.
• This role will require you to spend a large part of your day in a refrigerated environment.

Working Hours

This role is advertised a 5 out of 7 shift pattern (Mon-Fri and Sun-Thu), with daytime shift. However candidates will need to have a level of flexibility due to the nature of our work.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £27,996.80

Benefits

• Company pension
• Employee discount
• Free parking
• On-site parking

Experience

• Working with fresh produce 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification

• Food safety qualifications (preferred)

About us

Our journey began back in 1929. Since then, we’ve continued to build a strong and resilient business with a great future. It's why we believe we’re the best foodservice provider in the country.

A journey that gives back

We want your career with us to be as rewarding as possible. So, you’ll get lots in return for your hard work. That includes benefits that can support your wellbeing and financial security, and give you peace of mind.

The essentials

• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) as a minimum and the opportunity to buy more
• A pension - contribute 4% and we’ll match you (after year 1, we’ll match your contributions up to 6%).
• Life cover that you can increase.
• Access to confidential support and counselling, when you need it.
• A health plan that gives you money back on everyday medical costs for all the family, as well as access to a digital GP.

The extras

• Exclusive range of high street discounts including cinema, tech, travel, fashion, food and drink.
• Get paid as you earn - access to up to 20% of your pay before payday.
• Opportunity to buy dental cover and critical illness cover.

We want everyone to join our journey

We’re on a journey towards creating the best possible workplace. We’ve got some way to go, but we’re building a diverse and caring workforce. One that’s filled with forward-thinking people who each bring unique talents and skills. So whatever your life experience, we want you to join us - and you really can come as you are!