QA Super­vi­sor

An exciting new opportunity has arisen for a QA Supervisor to join the team at our Wembley site.

Job Purpose:

Monitor the safety, legality and quality of all the products produced by the factory ensuring all agreed specifications and standards are met.

Main Duties:

• To lead and motivate the QATs team in monitoring and evaluating product and processing systems and factory practices to ensure agreed standards of quality and food safety are achieved.
• Assisting the Quality Manager in the maintenance of factory-based paperwork.
• Maintenance of all quality records. Control the issuing, collection and filing away of all factory & QA paperwork
• Monitor quality systems on factory floor and carry out quality checks as necessary.
• Be the first point of contact with the QAT’s in dealing with day-to-day raw material and quality issues with production and report to the Quality Manager
• Manage and organise the allocation of workload, weekly rota within the QAT’s team.
• Issuing out Work Schedules to QAT’s and monitor to make sure they are completed on timely manner.
• Monitor samples and swabs are logged correctly on the lab system.
• Laise with lab regarding samples and swabs enquires be the first point of contact.
• Monitor all microbiological testing – both the schedules and results. Ensure any deviations are recorded, reported and acted accordingly.
• Assist with resolution of any microbiological or hygiene non – compliance in the factory.
• Carry out investigative swabs to monitor hygiene standards and investigate out of specification results.
• Co-ordinate the collection and distribution of standard product samples.
• Monitoring of Controlled documents on factory floor and making sure that it is collected and filed away in orderly fashion by QAT’s from respective circuits on daily basis.
• Update documents where required - following new launches and any changes in the company QMS Procedure and policies.
• Carry out corrective action following internal or external non-conformances, or out of specification micro results and assist in the investigation and response of customer complaints.
• Responsible for carrying out a Quality Control circuit as required in absence of QAT’s.
• Assist in any 3^rd Party and retailer / customer / Local Authority audits as required.
• Manage effective communications internally with all departments to ensure all the technical needs are met.
• Manage effective communications externally with supplier where required to ensure all the technical needs are met.
• Sign out all the schedule once completed weekly and monthly and handover to Quality Manager.
• Sign out Factory Non-conformance and Foreign body forms completed by QAT’s.
• Raising Supplier non conformance for the non-conforming products and packaging received also assist QAT’s when required.
• Responsible Concession & Hold release tracker to make items are logged correctly.
• Responsible Calibration Tracker and arrange items to send for calibration as required.
• Organise Validations, write reports for the audits and validation carried out and assist to other QATs when required.
• Carry out Investigations and briefings for the QAT’s for the day-to-day work not completed or to close any nonconformance.
• Carry out any project work as required within the department.

Requirements, Experience and Person Specification:

• Basic Induction Training
• HACCP Level 3
• Basic Food Hygiene Training as appropriate.
• Basic Health & Safety Training as appropriate.
• Good understanding of English, both written and verbal
• Able to communicate effectively with management and colleagues within a multicultural workforce
• Good numerical, organisational and record keeping skills
• Able to work quickly and methodically and maintain a high level of concentration at all times.
• Able to follow instruction and show initiative where needed.
• Quick Learner and mechanically minded.
• Flexible and positive attitude towards work.
• Physically fit to carry out duties involving lifting, carrying, twisting, bending, stretching, reaching etc.
• Any other training specific to job description.
• Computer Skill, Word, Excel & Outlook.

A full job description is available upon request

Salary to be discussed at interview stage

If you are an internal applicant, please ensure you have made your line manager aware before applying and confirm this when submitting your application.

To apply, please submit your covering letter and CV to: [email protected]

Please indicate salary expectations.

Please note that if a suitable candidate is found, this closing date may be brought forward.