Quality Technician – Food Industry

F/T PermanentQuality Technician required for Moira. Job Purpose: As a Quality Technician, you will play a critical role in maintaining and improving product quality and safety standards. You will work closely with the quality team to conduct inspections, tests, and audits to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and customer specifications. This position requires strong attention to detail, analytical skills. Duties will include: Sampling and testing of products, with the provision of accurate and timely QA monitoring and reporting, ensuring that product is produced to customer specification / guidelines. Perform routine quality control tests and analyses on raw materials, intermediate products, and finished goods using laboratory equipment and instrumentation. Test for attributes such as moisture content, pH, viscosity, texture, and microbiological safety. Conduct visual inspections of products, packaging, and production processes to identify defects, deviations, and non-conformances. Document findings and collaborate with production personnel to implement corrective actions. Collect samples of raw materials, in-process samples, and finished products for testing and analysis. Follow sampling protocols and procedures to ensure representative samples are obtained for accurate testing. Maintain accurate records of quality control tests, inspections, and results. Record data in electronic databases or logbooks and generate reports as needed for review by management and regulatory authorities. Assist in investigating quality issues, customer complaints and non-conformances to determine root causes and corrective/preventative actions. Collect, identify and store retained samples from production. Taking and recording checks in the following areas temperature of fridges and freezers, internal calibration of equipment, pH monitoring. Assist in blending requirements for production requirements. Assist in the NPD process and preparation of sample requirements as per customer, sales and product development requests. Sign off and file away daily paperwork. Assist in identifying, raising and documenting defect of products outside specified tolerances. Assist the Quality team in day-to-day tasks. You may also be required to undertake other duties which are deemed to be within the business needs. Essential Criteria: Previous experience within a similar environment. Understanding of manufacturing systems and procedures Ability to use own initiative Have a methodical and meticulous work aptitude Ability to work under minimum supervision Cover in absence the NPD Manager and NPD Technician Hours of Work: Monday - Friday 8.30 am - 5.00 pm Salary: £30,000 per annum. For further information contact Tanya Lyttle on Skills: Quality Technician