Quality Assurance Technician

Do you have experience in food or beverage manufacturing with a passion for quality assurance? If you are seeking to start your career in FMCG Quality Assurance, this would be a great opportunity for you to be introduced to the industry. You will be joining a forward-thinking Quality Assurance team within a great working environment.

Refresco UK are part of the Refresco Group a multi-national independent soft drinks manufacturer with 78 manufacturing sites across Europe, North America, and Australia in 15 countries. In the UK we have 6 sites. We work with all the large UK supermarkets plus many well-known branded drinks producers.

Quality Assurance Technician

6 month fix term contract

8:30am-5pm Mon-Thurs, 8:30am-4pm Fridays

About the Role

You will work closely with the Quality Assurance Team and Production Area Managers, to support the quality improvement and right first-time agenda so that products are legally and safely manufactured in compliance with customer and internal company specifications and standards. Reporting directly to the Site Quality Manager, you will be part of a team of 4 people.

As Quality Assurance Technician here are your key areas of focus:

• Actively participate in the implementation of site quality improvement projects, where necessary providing support to train operation teams and monitor project effectiveness.
• Complete GMP and Hygiene audits to required schedules.
• Assist in the investigation of consumer complaints and non-confirming items determining root cause and corrective action necessary to prevent reoccurrence.
• Participate in the internal audit schedule completing audits as necessary to demonstrate compliance with company, customer and industry standards.
• Where applicable take samples in accordance site quality plan ensuring the samples are analysed in a timely manner and results reported / escalated as appropriate.
• Complete traceability exercises to agreed plan.
• Facilitate the effective running of site quality panels/boards to agreed schedules and standards.
• Completion of operational QC compliance audits, reporting of non-conformances and ensuring corrective action is in place and monitored to prevent reoccurrence.
• Assist in new starter and refresher training.
• Ensure all analytical measuring equipment is calibrated and serviced according to the relevant schedule.
• Complete data entry in a timely manner, ensuring all data is entered accurately to enable reports to be generated from this data as required.
• In common with all other personnel within Refresco, the Job Holder is required to adhere to the Company’s policies on Safety, Hygiene and Good Housekeeping.

About You

If you have worked within food or beverage manufacturing with a keen interest in moving into quality assurance, we would love to speak with you.

• Ideally you would have a good working knowledge of food manufacturing health and safety (HACCP)
• A science-related degree would be beneficial but not mandatory
• You should be competent in Excel, Word and Powerpoint, Outlook

About Refresco:

Refresco is the global independent beverage solutions provider for Global, National and Emerging brands, and retailers with production in Europe, North America, and Australia. Refresco offers an extensive range of product and packaging combinations from juices to carbonated soft drinks and mineral waters in carton, PET, Aseptic PET, cans, and glass. Refresco continuously searches for new and alternative ways to improve the quality of its products and packaging combinations in line with consumer and customer demand, environmental responsibilities, and market demand.

Refresco is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and has more than 13,500 employees. www.refresco.com.

Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We’re a global business and currently produce 12 billion litres of soft drinks from 64 manufacturing plants in 12 countries and we’re only just getting started.

We’re the proud owners of six drinks manufacturing sites within the UK. Our UK business provides a great place to work for over 1,800 employees, who produce private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers. Whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards. Our products get where they need to be when they need to get there to meet the needs of our high-profile customers.

Refresco believes that equal opportunity for all is fundamental to our company's values and all our applicants can expect fairness and transparency in our recruitment process.

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