Job Title: Quality Assurance Supervisor
Location: Sheffield
Salary: £28,500 per annum
Job type: Full Time, Usually days but can be afternoons or weekends.
Delicious Alchemy is a gluten free, dairy free and vegan health food company that was born out of a desire to make gluten free food taste good and be good for you once and for all.
Our team are passionate and talented, developing new flavours, improving old ones and 100% committed to bringing healthy food to those who deserve the best. Delicious Alchemy is passionate about making gluten free food commonplace, so much so that anyone can enjoy it – not just for those who need it.
The role:
Provide technical support, guidance and management to the business but particularly operational functions in order to ensure that we meet and exceed our own and customer requirements: including BRCGS, Supermarket own label UK and UK food safety requirements.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
Work with the Production team on continuous development to improve the work carried out in the factory and the quality and safety of our products
- Ensure all work is carried out in line with operating and QM procedures
- Ensure all operatives are trained to the QMS procedures and supervise their practices
- Conduct GMP audits and scheduled internal audits
- Coordinate the process of complaint management, investigation and response.
- Conduct QA sampling, tests and swabbing, e.g. environmental swabbing, water testing, scale checks, fridge checks, and dilution testing and taste panel / organoleptic sampling & manage retained samples
- Support and deputise with customers visits and audits
- Provide support to the NPD team on factory trials
- Daily review/Audit of production paperwork to ensure compliance
- Write factory specifications and liaise with Technical services Co-Ordinator to ensure they are managed, up to date and accurate
- Take an active part in the HACCP team
- Control CIC’s and ensure manual is up to date
- Produce reports for the management meetings as required or requested by TM
- Be the Technical department representative at relevant meeting i.e. daily production meeting
- Support all other teams in the business by providing technical support and advice
Qualifications and Experience Required:
- A degree in Food science and/or related experience
- Food safety
- HACCP
Knowledge and Skills Required:
- How does food industry work
- Understanding of food quality and safety and the factors having an effect on it
- Numeracy and Literacy
- Analytical
- Problem Solving and attention to detail
- Helpful
- Innovative
- Safe
- Team worker
- Collaborative
- “Can do”
Personal development opportunities/requirements:
- Continuing personal development to maintain standards and requirements of the different stakeholders and keep abreast of industry innovation.
- In-house and external training to gain the required knowledge regarding customers’ specifications systems, food safety standards and food industry standards:
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Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of Quality Manager, Quality Assurance Manager, Quality Assurance, Manufacturing Quality Manager, Operational Improvement Manager, Quality Improvement Manager, Quality Improvement, Quality Assurance Lead, may also be considered for this role.
