Quality Assurance Technician - Days, Coedpoeth Bakery

The Village Bakery (wrexham) Limited
Wrexham, United Kingdom
18 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Shift work
Languages
English
Compensation
£ 30K

Job location

Wrexham, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Outlook
Desktop Computing

Job description

As a Quality Assurance Technician, you will be directly contributing to this vision through your core tasks and responsibilities these will include, but are not limited to:

  • Ensuring that all raw materials and finished products are to specification, including carrying out relevant on-line quality checks, daily QAS checks and Taste Panels.
  • Ensuring that processes and procedures are being complied with at all times across the site, including challenging non-conforming practices where identified.
  • Carrying out GMP Audits as to the schedule and reporting them promptly to the relevant departmental manager, recording your findings, actions and points scored.
  • Following up to ensure issues have been resolved and closed out adequately and communicating any graphs or significant trends to relevant staff.
  • Lab Sampling - Take required samples, swabs, water etc according to the schedule and send for appropriate analyses. Review completed results with the Quality Manager and take any measures that may be required.
  • Carry out CCP verification, scale checks and any other daily or weekly monitoring, e.g. temperatures of refrigerators, Titrations etc. Ensure that all checks are carried out at the appropriate time and that if any 'reading' is out of range that appropriate action is taken immediately.
  • A full Job Description for this role is available upon request

Requirements

Do you have a valid Level 2 qualification in Food Safety and Hygiene, Any valid issuer for England, Northern Ireland, Wales certification?, Do you have experience in Quality assurance?, * Previous experience working as a Quality Assurance Technician in a food manufacturing environment.

  • Confident working with computers, including Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook
  • Self-organised, motivated, and able to prioritise work.
  • Knowledge and understanding of a Bakery operation and the quality requirements of both the business and the customer.

Desirable

  • BRC Audit experience
  • Internal Auditor Certified
  • Level 2 Food Hygiene Certified
  • Level 2 HACCP Certified
  • Experience working within a Bakery manufacturing environment

Benefits & conditions

Quality Assurance Technician - Due to our continued growth and success we are looking for a Quality Assurance Technician to join our Technical team in Coedpoeth (LL11 3RD). The hours of work for this role are 06:00am to 15:00pm working Monday to Friday

What would you get for working here?

If you have the Quality Assurance Technician experience and skills, we are looking for then you will receive a total reward package that includes:

  • A competitive salary of £30,431.70
  • 8% Pension Contribution
  • 28 days annual leave (Inc of Bank Holidays)
  • £250 refer-a-friend scheme
  • Access up to 50% of your pay when you need it - no waiting for payday with the app Stream
  • Access to an exclusive employee benefits/discounts platform where you can save £££s on your everyday spends
  • Excellent coffee machines available free-of-charge
  • Professional development opportunities and qualifications
  • A progressive working environment that puts its people at the heart of what it does
  • Great opportunity for career development

What would you be doing?

Our Vision as a business is to be the "Go-to" supplier of bakery products, working nationally with retailers such as M&S and Waitrose on their premium private label range and regionally through the Village Bakery brand. In achieving this vision, we want to be recognised as a family business that continually invests in the future through the development of our people, quality and food safety culture, equipment and processes. ??, Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £30,431.70 per year, * Company pension

  • Employee discount
  • On-site parking
  • Referral programme
  • Store discount

About the company

If you haven't heard of us before we are a family owned and managed Craft Bakery producing an award-winning range of Bread, Morning Goods, Pies and gluten free products. Our business has been producing products in this category since 1964 and since then we have grown in success due to our reputation for quality, innovation and technical experience. As a result of this continued growth, we now operate from a number of world class and well invested bakeries in and around Wrexham, including our dedicated Gluten free site 'Gluten Freedom' and our state-of-the-art 'Super Bakery' at Ash Road.

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