Quality Assurance Technician

Morrisons; Harrogate; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Morrisons is seeking a proactive and detail-oriented professional for their Technical team in Harrogate. The role involves ensuring compliance with food safety standards, monitoring production processes, and supporting new product launches. With benefits like a competitive pension, discounts, and career progression opportunities, this is a fantastic opportunity to join a team dedicated to food quality and safety.

Benefits

Six weeks holiday including bank holidays

15% supermarket discount

Career progression opportunities

Subsidised staff canteen

Healthcare/Well-being benefits

Qualifications

• Food experience in a technical role is ideal.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, control, and audit the production process.
• Investigate food safety incidents and apply root cause analysis.
• Support the site management team during external accreditations.

Skills

Attention to detail

Effective communication

Proactive attitude

PC skills (especially Google)

Education

HACCP qualification or food safety qualification

Job description

Our Technical / Quality team are a very important team when it comes to Morrisons Manufacturing. It's down to them to ensure we're legally compliant from a food safety point of view. Our sites are super busy, ever-demanding and our standards are high - keeping our Technical team busy every day.

Reporting to the Shift Technical Manager, you will:

• Monitor, control and audit the production process
  
• Ensure that conformity and non-conformity are communicated, followed up and closed off.
  
• Investigate any food safety incidents applying root cause analysis and ensure that the day to day site technical function is achieved
  
• Support the site management team during any external accreditation such as BRC and Morrisons manufacturing standards
  
• Ensure that the site production is supported during the launch of any new product line
  

Why not take a look around one of our Manufacturing sites? Click here.

About you

As well as a keen eye for detail you will also need:

• The confidence to challenge with a proactive and ‘can do’ attitude
• To be a team player and an effective communicator
  
• Good PC skills (especially Google)
  
• Food experience in a technical or similar type role.
  
• A HACCP qualification or a food safety qualification (ideally)
  

In return for your hard work we will offer you:

• Six weeks holiday (including bank holidays) and a guaranteed day off that's important to you - whether that be a birthday, religious holiday or a special occasion

• 15% discount in our supermarkets and convenience stores available from the day you join us

• Additional 10% discount card for a Friend or Family member

• Career progression and development opportunities

• Subsidised staff canteen

• Competitive pension and life assurance

• Healthcare/Well-being benefits including Aviva Digital GP

• Morrisons MyPerks with discounts at high street shops, cinemas and gyms, and lots more

• Optional Payroll charity donations

• A range of family friendly policies including 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave along with neonatal and fertility leave

Find out more about working in Manufacturing at Myton Food Group here.

About us

You’ll find a great big welcome here at Myton Food Group - the part of our business that looks after manufacturing, whilst maintaining strong roots within Morrisons Supermarkets.

At Myton Food Group, we have a legacy to be proud of. We’re British farming’s biggest single direct customer. We buy from highly valued suppliers. And we’re passionate about the quality of our food. Today, we have 19 manufacturing sites across the UK, where we pack and process fresh meats and fish, savoury and sweet pies, fruit and veg, flower bouquets, bread and lots more.

We really do stand out in the world of food manufacturing. But what we’re especially proud of is the way we all get stuck in and work as a team, in partnership across our supply chain. Read more about what we do at our Myton Food Group website.