Quality Assurance Technician

Dunbia; Clitheroe; Hybrid; GBP 21,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

Dunbia is recruiting a Quality Assurance Technician for the front shift (5.45am–2.15pm), Monday to Friday, at our Clitheroe site. You will join the Technical Department to develop expertise in food safety and quality through coaching and hands-on experience in a busy production environment.

Reporting to the Quality Assurance Manager, you will help maintain QA standards, monitor critical processes, and support continuous improvement across manufacturing areas.

Qualifications

• Understanding of production processes on site.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and organisation skills.
• Ability to multitask and prioritise to meet deadlines.
• Team player with a professional attitude.
• English reading, writing and speaking required.

Responsibilities

• Maintain QA standards in Slaughter Hall and Boning Hall to meet product/customer specs.
• Monitor OPRP’s in production areas.
• Maintain product specifications and manufacturing documents.
• Check intake temperatures and contamination of carcasses and primals.
• Check pH of beef quarters to batch/customer requirements.
• Conduct product manufacturing and quality audits per specs.
• Perform micro sampling to site schedule and verify steriliser temps.
• Run metal detection checks and verify date labeling.
• Perform product reworks and 24-hour QC checks.

Skills

Quality knowledge

Teamwork

Communication

Attention to detail

English proficiency

Job description

Overview

A vacancy has arisen for a Quality Assurance Technician, working on the front shift, Monday to Friday, 5.45am to 14.15pm.

This is an ideal opportunity for someone to progress their career within the business.

Responsibilities

Reporting to the Quality Assurance Manager, you will work as part of the Technical Department. You will gain a wide range of food safety & quality and business experience skills through continuous on the job development with coaching and mentoring. Your role will see you tackle a wide range of business challenges in a busy environment, some of your responsibilities will include:

• To maintain quality assurance standards in the Slaughter Hall and in the Boning Hall to deliver compliance to product and customer specification.
• The monitoring of OPRP’s and within production areas.
• Maintaining product specification and manufacturing documentation
• Schedule checking intake temperature and contamination checks of carcasses and primals.
• Schedule pH of beef quarters to batch and customer requirement.
• Product manufacturing and quality audits, checking adherence to specification including random primal and vl visual checks.
• Micro sampling to site schedule, checking of steriliser temperatures to ensure they are of operational temperature.
• Operational checks of metal detection equipment to schedule case end and internal label date verification checks.
• Perform product reworks
• Perform 24-hour product QC checks

Qualifications

• An understanding of production processes onsite.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and organisation skills, with the ability to multitask and prioritise work to meet deadlines.
• Ability to work as a team with a professional enthusiastic attitude.
• Able to maintain a professional manner with a high attention to detail.
• Committed to working within the Company Mission, Vision & Values.
• Able to read, write and speak English.

No company sponsorship is available to overseas applicants for this position.