Quality Assurance Supervisor

UNAVAILABLE; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food processing company is seeking a Quality Assurance professional to join their teams in FSQ and Operations. This role involves monitoring quality standards on the shop floor, conducting audits, and ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations. Ideal candidates will have experience in food manufacturing and possess strong organisational and interpersonal skills.

Qualifications

• Experience in fast-paced food manufacturing environment preferred.
• Good standard of English required.

Responsibilities

• Ensure FSQ procedures are followed.
• Identify and address quality issues before despatch.
• Conduct hygiene inspections and maintain traceability.

Skills

Attention to detail

Organisational skills

Interpersonal skills

Time management

Job description

Overview

Overview:

We are actively seeking applications from individuals keen to take up a career within one of Europe’s leading food processing companies. This is an opportunity to join well-established teams in Food Safety and Quality (FSQ), and Operations.

Working hours: 40 per week, Monday to Friday 6am to 3pm

Pay: £13.42 rising to £15.16 per hour after probation

Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will work within departments on the shop floor, the QA will work cross-functionally with the FSQ and Operations teams to be ensure FSQ procedures are followed to the highest standards, so that we deliver products of highest quality to our customers.

Key Duties (but not limited to):

• Ensure quality issues are minimised, not repeated and aspirationally, do not exist.
• Issues are identified prior to despatch.
• Support the follow up of corrective actions ensuring non-conformances are investigated with root cause analysis of any issue, identification and corrective strategies applied.
• Daily KPI’s are set and monitored, including:
  • Daily micro samples are taken.
  • Various Pre-Start checks throughout the factory including all sterilisers etc are carried out.
  • Label and weight checks are carried out and are consistent.
  • Daily contamination checks are carried out as appropriate.
  • All quality records are fully completed, recorded and stored appropriately.
  • Perform hygiene inspections.
  • Collecting, logging product samples/environmental swabs.

• Site internal audits are carried out as per defined schedule and follow up on any findings.
• Full traceability is maintained throughout the process

Qualifications

Experience and Qualification:

• Experience within a fast-paced food manufacturing environment – meat processing experience is desirable.
• Able to prioritise, multitask and remain calm under pressure to strict deadlines.
• Demonstrate an understanding of Health and Safety requirements.
• Excellent interpersonal, organisational, time management and attention to detail skills.
• Due to the tasks involved in the role, the ability to have a good standard of English is essential.

INDMP

No company sponsorship is available to overseas applicants for this position