Quality Assurance Technician

Dunbia Group; Clitheroe; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

Dunbia Group in the United Kingdom is seeking a Quality Assurance Technician for the front shift (Mon–Fri, 5.45am–2.15pm). This role sits within the Technical Department and offers development through coaching and mentoring in a busy production environment.

You will maintain QA standards, monitor PRP/OPRP controls, and support continuous improvement in food safety and quality across slaughter and boning hall operations.

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.

Responsibilities

• Maintain quality assurance standards in production areas to deliver compliance to product and customer specification.
• Monitor OPRP's and within production areas.
• Maintain product specification and manufacturing documentation.
• Schedule intake temperature and contamination checks of carcasses and primals.
• Schedule pH of beef quarters to batch and customer requirement.
• Conduct product manufacturing and quality audits with adherence to specifications, including random primal and visual checks.
• Perform micro sampling to site schedule and verify steriliser temperatures.
• Carry out operational checks of metal detection equipment as scheduled.
• Perform product reworks.
• Perform 24-hour product QC checks.

Skills

Production processes understanding

Interpersonal communication

Organisation skills

Teamwork

Attention to detail

English

Job description

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.