QA

QA - Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 3TH

Hourly Pay: £11.00 – £12.00/ hour – depending on the experience (Sunday, enhanced pay)

Shift based role 5 days on, 2 days off, AM or PM shift (Saturday off every week)

Raynor Foods is a leading independent manufacturer of chilled and frozen food in the dynamic and exciting ‘Food to Go’ market, with a strong national and international customer base. We are the nation’s premier supplier of fresh quality food, made daily.

The company is a long-standing family business with a strong focus on quality, service, and innovation. Having invested over £3m into new facilities and equipment we are experiencing a sustained period of rapid growth.

Reporting to the Product Quality Manager you will maintain high standards of food safety and quality of our products.  Identifying areas of non-conformance that arise through both the quality of the ingredients and the quality of the process steps in the production of our products and assisting to address them.

Specific Responsibilities

• Work in partnership with the manufacturing team and QCP operators to maintain and improve the quality.
• It is essential that at the same time, you will maintain effective communication channels with production and the SID team.
• Checking sample orders and confirming quality suitability for dispatch.
• Work to produce the highest quality products ensuring that quality comes before speed.
• Ensure all company policies and procedures are being followed correctly by other production staff.
• Work, communicate and report quality problems with team leaders and ensure problems are solved or products isolated.
• To encourage, motivate and train staff to recognise quality defects in products and raw materials, especially on products as they go down the line.
• Monitoring Mass Production and Core Production by completing its relevant paperwork on the factory floor including non-conformance and Quality Standards.
• Ensuring the retention of mass production samples is taken and stored in the designated area.
• Ensuring samples of hand portion ingredients are displayed on the line.
• Raw materials quality checks in low risk Quality of mixes and ingredients in the preparation room
• Control packaging and label changeover in high care, ensuring that the right product goes into the right packaging or uses the correct labels, and the correct date is printed.
• Request from the admin office of any additional printed labels, if required by production Carrying out our daily internal audit (technical walkabout)
• Monitoring of product reseal process to ensure that the correct packaging is used, and the correct date/label is applied.

Skills:

• Be able to multi-task. Must have an excellent eye for detail.
• Be tolerant and patient with others.
• Confident to give others feedback.
• Must have good confidence and be able to challenge staff with areas of concern.
• Co-operates and works well with others throughout the company in pursuit of team goals, sharing information and supporting others.
• Constantly mindful of ethical standards both personally and professionally, showing integrity, reliability, and trustworthiness.

Knowledge:

Extensive and comprehensive training will be given to the right candidate, in addition to this the candidate is required to have;

• Good understanding of Food safety and quality management systems including HACCP Team Leader Level – Food Safety Test.
• Experience fulfilling a similar role would be advantage