Quality Assurance Technician - Blackburn

Position Overview:

Working 37.5 hours, Monday to Friday, flexibility to work across the following shift patterns 6am until 2pm / 2pm until 10pm / 10pm until 6am

Location:

Blackburn

Company Overview:

Pets Choice is a leading pet food manufacturer whose industry knowledge spans over 135 years. Based in Blackburn, Lancashire, the Pets Choice portfolio of brands offers a variety of products for pets and wild animals under its brands; Webbox, TastyBone, Meatiful, Spike’s World, Goodwyns, Davies, Oceanic and Vitakraft. Each brand offers a unique insight into animals from dogs to ducks and produces high-quality products that cater to a wide variety of consumer needs. As a trusted partner, Pets Choice provide private label goods including extruded food, wet food and retorted trays, and baked fresh meat treats. The business also offers additional services such as packaging design, fulfilment and logistics. With a broad range of capabilities and distribution channels worldwide, Pets Choice are proud to be a major supplier to the UK grocery, independents and pet speciality sectors.

Role:

Reporting into the Quality Assurance Manager the QA Technician will be responsible for a broad range of duties to ensure our products meet all technical standards and comply with all regulations in order for our products to be fit for consumers.

• Internal Auditing: GMP / Glass & Hard Plastic / Internal Audits Process etc…
• Control of Non-Conforming Product
• Food Safety Controls – CCP’S
• Complaint Investigations
• Corrective & Preventative Actions
• Investigations into Food Safety Incidents.
• Labelling & Pack Controls
• PPE Controls
• Segregation
• Personal Hygiene
• Product Traceability
• Product Release / Positive Release
• Inspection & Testing
• Foreign Body Controls
• Root Cause Analysis
• Cross Contamination / Allergen Controls
• Rework Controls
• Implementation of Process Controls
• Complete raw material, packaging and factory specifications
• Recipe Controls

Key attributes and skills:

• Microsoft: Word; Excel.
• Demonstrate experience of auditing
• Traceability
• Temperature Controls
• Good communications skills
• Previous experience as a Quality Assurance Technician
• Experience of working to site policies and procedures