Summary
A rapidly expanding manufacturer of high quality fresh products is seeking a Technical Assistant to join their team. You will be working Monday – Friday office hours at their state of the art factory in Bristol. You can expect to achieve a salary of £21,000.

The Role:
Reporting into the Technical Manager, duties will include:

• Assist the Technical Manager with day to day technical duties i.e. ensuring schedules are met, review and amend company policies and procedures, ensure calibration of equipment etc.
• Assist with the verification of production process control paperwork.
• Liaising with Production Managers, striving for continuous improvements.
• Undertake regular traceability checks to ensure documents are accurate.
• Deal with inaccurate or incomplete documents where necessary.
• Ensure that the raw material supplier approval matrix is kept up to date including, raw and finished product specifications.
• Supporting the Quality Manager to ensure good manufacturing and hygiene practices are adhered to.
• Carrying out daily, weekly, monthly due diligence checks such as temperature checks, glass and plastic audits, fabrication audits.
• Oversee microbiological sampling and internal auditing.
• Oversee non-conformances both in-house and within the supply chain and ensure corrective actions and root causes are met in allocated timescales.
• Ensure that the Technical Inventory is kept up to date on a monthly basis.

The Person:

• Educated to degree standard (or similar) in a Food Science / Food Technology discipline.
• 2 years’ experience within a technical / quality role within food manufacturing.
• Knowledge / experience of HACCP, BRC, SALSA and GMP.
• Determined individual, who is keen to progress and grow with a passion for the food industry.

This role would suit a Technical Assistant / Technical Administrator / Quality Officer / QA / Quality Assure / Quality Auditor.

JK Recruitment
Please be aware that we receive a high volume of interest for each of our roles and we cannot guarantee we will be in touch if you are not shortlisted for the position. At JK Recruitment we aim to provide the best possible opportunity to take your career forward, we will be in touch within the next seven days if your application is successful. Please continue to visit www.jkrecruit.co.uk to keep up to date with further vacancies. We regret that this client is not prepared to sponsor work permit or work permit transfer applications. Candidates must be able to prove their eligibility to work in the UK