Quality Assurance Technologist - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

As Quality Assurance Technologist you'll be responsible for supporting a continuous improvement based Food safety and Quality culture across the site in line with the business Technical strategy and policy.

You'll ensure that we have consistent and unambiguous operating procedures that cover all tasks and that those procedures are aligned to the correct roles so we can ensure all co-owners receive the training required to be able to confidently meet the safety and quality standards we require.

You'll be an integral member of the Site Management Team, reporting into the site Quality Systems Manager. You will work with both the operations and engineering teams to identify and implement continuous improvement from a technical bias.

This is a full time position working Monday - Friday - 40 Hours. 

Key responsibilities:

• Identifying all tasks required that are critical to each department on site, requiring a standard operating procedure
• Identify a clear and consistent format for all operating procedures and logs, in collaboration with all relevant stakeholders
• Review all existing procedures and logs and revise or replace as necessary within the agreed template formats
• Produce new operating procedures where gaps are identified
• Work with the operation and engineering teams to identify consistent roles across the site and allocate operating procedures to those roles.
• Review and revise the site training database to reflect the agreed roles and procedure allocations, removing extraneous roles and systems
• Work with all stakeholders to support in the training of administration and review of the training database
• Support in the training and review of effectiveness of procedures.
• Assisting with site visits and audits pertaining to this role.
• Supporting the Quality Systems Manager as required
• Passionate and proud about our products and processes, you will be always looking for ways to improve our delivery on site KPI's and work closely with all key stakeholders to drive improvements across site.

Essential:

• Demonstrable experience within a relevant technical role within the food industry
• Strong communication and influencing skills
• Knowledge of BRC accreditation and retailer standards
• Good IT skills, ability to manipulate and present information effectively
• Good standard of English

Desirable:

• Manufacturing experience
• A recognised audit qualification
• Training qualification
• Relevant food related qualification

We’re independent, British and proud to be making the highest quality yogurts, desserts and ice cream under the Yeo Valley brand and for many of the UK’s major retailers. Operating from four dairies and two logistics centres in Somerset and Devon, we employ over 1700 staff and produce more than 25% of the UK’s packaged yogurt.

We’re sure you don’t need convincing, but there’s a whole host of benefits that we offer including:

• 25 days holiday allowance + bank holidays
• annual bonus (as part of the Employee Benefit Trust, based on company performance for the year)
• non-contributory pension scheme
• life cover
• healthcare cash back plan
• cycle to work scheme
• subsidised Yeo Valley products and services
• preferential rates with our partners
• learning and development opportunities; we’re committed to ensuring all of our employees have the chance to grow

Our closing dates are a guide for when the application window should close, although we may close the advert sooner if we can. So, we recommend you get your application in straight away – and don’t miss the opportunity to join us!

Unfortunately, we’re not able to provide employment sponsorship to candidates at this moment in time.

Please note that Yeo Valley do not accept speculative agency applications; we will only accept applications from preferred suppliers that have been submitted to us via our recruitment portal at the point of instruction.