Quality technician – Food

Manchester, Lancashire
Mach Recruitment Ltd

Mach Recruitment are recruiting for a Raw Material Technician to join our well-established client based in Manchester.

Shift Pattern: Monday to Friday 10am – 6pm

Responsibilities will include:

• Delivering, operating and maintaining all activities required to ensure food safety, quality, legality and integrity throughout all site production, storage and packaging operations.
• Conduct goods in inspections on all raw materials against the agreed specification and the agreed schedule
• All goods in inspection results to be logged on the internal NAV system.
• Work actively with the warehouse team to manage any raw material life extension requests.
• Contact suppliers to discuss issues
• Submit raw materials for lab sampling as required.
• Participate in external audits/visits, demonstrating systems and records
• Support with investigations relating to customer/consumer complaints or other product defects in a specific manufacturing area
• Supporting and coaching all colleagues across IML in best practice for food safety, quality, legality and integrity.

Essential:

• Excellent communication, both verbal and written
• Good organisational skills whilst demonstrating initiative
• Detailed-focus with a high level of accuracy
• IT proficient – Outlook, Word and Excel
• Analytical and methodical in solving problems

Desirable:

• Food handling and manufacturing experience
• Experience within a similar quality assurance role
• Food Safety level 3
• HACCP level 2

Mach Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy