Quality Controller

Staffline; England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Quality Controller in Northwich. This role involves ensuring food safety and quality compliance, handling product assessments, and collaborating with internal teams. Successful candidates will have experience in quality control, understanding of food safety standards, and good communication skills. Pay ranges from £12.21 to £12.96 per hour with full training provided and additional benefits like onsite support and free parking.

Benefits

Temp to perm opportunity

Onsite support

Canteen on site

Free car parking

Full training provided

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar role is essential.
• Compliance with Health and Safety and Food Safety Standards.

Responsibilities

• Check product quality and compliance.
• Advise on non-conformance affecting food safety.
• Escalate quality issues as needed.
• Identify and eliminate quality problems.
• Ensure adherence to product standards.

Skills

Awareness of product specifications

Understanding of British Retail Consortium (BRC)

Basic maths skills

Understanding of product allergens

Food Safety Level 2

HACCP Level 2

Job description

Overview

Great opportunity to work as a Quality Controller for our client, a manufacturing site packing fruits and vegetables. Staffline is recruiting for a Quality Controller in Northwich.

Rate of Pay

• 0-12 weeks: £12.21 per hour
• 13-26 weeks: £12.56 per hour
• 26+ weeks: £12.96 per hour

Work Schedule

Full-time role working either 4 or 5 days out of 7. Rota to be confirmed.

Your Time at Work

As a Quality Controller, you will use trained skills to complete all tasks assigned by a member of the management team, ensuring quality and food-safe products are produced for the customer. Other duties include:

• Checking the quality and legal compliance of the products at the required times to ensure the food safety, quality, legality, and authenticity of the products, including conducting raw material assessments where required, following specifications.
• Advising internal customers (Production and Technical) of all non-conformances that will affect food safety or legal compliance where applicable e.g. incorrect date codes, product underweight, etc.
• Escalating rejections or intake quality issues to internal colleagues and suppliers, detailing to suppliers why products have been rejected, and escalating to a Manager where required.
• Carrying out activities that identify and eliminate quality problems to ensure customer requirements are continually met, including supporting internal audits.
• Ensure that the site adheres to standards and specifications in order to minimise and prevent legal infringements.
• Completing daily assessments of products from each production run to ensure the shelf life of products meets required standards and specifications.

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) must be worn at all times.

Our Perfect Worker

• Awareness of specification of a range of products produced in all areas of work, including seasonality of products – the site will provide training through a full season to understand products.
• Understanding of British Retail Consortium (BRC), MMS and customer Code of Practice (COP)
• Basic maths, office, and excel skills.
• Understanding of product allergens.
• Food Safety Level 2.
• HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) Level 2 where required.

You will be happy to work across multiple production environments with varying temperatures of approx. 8 degrees and below, and occasionally working in damp and wet conditions where required.

Quality Controllers will comply with all relevant business and site policies such as Health and Safety and Food Safety Standards.

The site will provide training in order to complete the tasks, quality, specification and operational requirements.

Experience in a similar role is essential.

Key Information and Benefits

• Earn £12.21 – £12.96 per hour
• Monday to Friday
• Temp to perm opportunity
• OnSite support from Staffline
• Canteen on site
• Free car parking on site
• Full training provided

Job Ref

1MOGP