Quality Assurance Technologist - FTC

PrepWorld; Northfleet; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 27,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site parking with electric charging

Staff restaurant with subsidised meals

Staff events fully paid

Brand new facilities

Supportive team

Job summary

PrepWorld in Northfleet, Kent is seeking a Quality Assurance Technologist on a fixed-term contract for daytime shifts. You will monitor food safety, legality and quality across all production stages, conduct daily QA activities, and maintain accurate documentation for audits.

The role involves CCP verification, taste panels, and supporting the technical team. The successful candidate will have English literacy, relevant food-industry experience (preferred), and be proactive with strong

Qualifications

• Reading and writing in English required.
• Experience in High Care Food Industry Environment preferred.
• Experience with fresh produce preferred.
• Proactive, energetic, patient and able to multitask and prioritise.

Responsibilities

• Ensure food safety, legality, authenticity and quality across production.
• Uphold food safety and legal requirements; monitor CCPs and critical limits.
• Conduct daily QA checks and accurate paperwork for audits.
• Identify and report quality, food safety or compliance concerns to QA Supervisors/Technical Team.
• Create and troubleshoot programmes for metal detectors and check weighers.

Skills

English literacy

Proactive

Multitasking

Prioritisation

Driving (preferred)

Food industry experience (preferred)

Print Room familiarity (preferred)

Job description

• Location: Northfleet, Kent, United Kingdom

TheQuality Assurance Technologist- Fixed Term Contract on daysis responsible for ensuring that all product and processes comply with food safety, legality, authenticity and quality requirements throughout all stages of the production process.

• Monitoring and upholding of all food safety and legal requirements.
• Assessing quality of fruit throughout the production process to ensure compliance to internal and customer specifications.
• Verifying Critical Control Points (CCPs) to ensure critical limits are being met.
• The Quality Assurance Technologist conducts daily checks of factory processes and procedures to ensure compliance and good manufacturing practices are adhered to.
• The Quality Assurance Technologists are responsible for completing paperwork to a high level of accuracy to record daily QA tasks and audits.
• Understanding of company policies and procedures to enable checking and improve compliance within production.
• Identifying and reporting any quality, food safety or compliance concerns to QA Supervisors and Customer Technical Team as appropriate to enable quick rectification.
• Creating new programmes in the metal detectors and check weighers and troubleshooting issues during production.
• Thoroughly conducting practical internal audits including CCP, GMP, Fabrication, Glass and Hard Plastic etc.
• Collecting and registering product samples for microbiological testing.
• Following the sampling plan to correctly take and accurately register swabs, air plates and water samples.
• Observing personal hygiene practices and reporting of any non-conformance to procedures.
• Operating in a tidy, organised and efficient manner to complete all QA operations and maintain order within the Technical office.
• Retrieving and collating paperwork to facilitate traceability requests.
• Completing and supporting Print Room operations as required.
• Conducting daily Taste Panels as required to support the Taste Panel Coordinator.
• Acting proactively to identify areas for improvement.
• Acting with the customer in mind.
• Support for the wider Technical Team as required.

What you need to be successful:

• Ability to read and write in English
• (Preferable) experience in High Care Food Industry Environment
• (Preferable) experience working with fresh produceProactive individual with high energy
• Patient and understanding
• Ability to multitask and prioritise
• (Preferable) ability to drive
• (Preferable) experience in the food industry
• (Preferable) experience with Print Room operations and printing/ editing software
• Stream (track your earnings and instantly access up to 50% of your money as you earn it, without waiting for payday)
• On site parking with electric charge points
• Fully paid for staff events
• Staff restaurant serving heavily subsidised hot and cold food
• Brand new facilities
• A supportive team

Shift Pattern

Days:

Sunday, Monday and Tuesday (3 days)
Shift: Day Shift
Hours: 05:30 – 17:30

Salary
L1: £13.06 per hour
L2: £13.44 per hour
L3: £13.80 per hour
(Rate dependent on experience)

Please note: this is a fixed-term contract role scheduled to end on 19 February 2027