QA Technician

Reporting to the Quality Manager, the focus of the QA Technologists role is to ensure all products manufactured are safe, legal and meet agreed internal and external specifications on a daily basis.
This includes carrying out a number of daily, weekly and monthly duties, collecting data and analysing, root cause analysis (including customer complaints and factory day to day issues.)
As part of your role, you will be expected to support the Quality Manager to instil a quality culture throughout the site, supporting the operations team to help deliver the overall site objectives.
Other key actions will be but not limited to:

• Carrying out all QA related tasks efficiently, and in a timely manner, ensuring that all tasks that are allocated to that shift are completed on that shift


• Developing a quality culture throughout the manufacturing site by supporting the Quality and QFS manager and site team to continuously improve against standards


• Supporting the delivery of site technical KPIs


• Carrying out daily paperwork auditing and spot checks online, and a documented and effective shift handover


• Supporting operations in relevant corrective actions to ensure any consumer or customer dissatisfaction is addressed


• When necessary, raise non-conformances and product recalls, communicating to all relevant parties accordingly


• Carrying out internal audits, GMP audits and risk assessments


• When necessary, assist with in supplier meetings/audits


• When necessary, assist with in NPD trials and aid the NPD and Technical team when carrying out trials/ new kit installation


• Send out weekly and monthly summaries


• Maintain the reel room rejects reporting back to the Raw Materials Technologist


• Durability assessment - weekly check to ensure that all products used on site are within their allocated date and raise NCRs as required


• To carry out glass and hard plastic checks monthly and 6 monthly


• Undergo project work as required and in a timely manor
  
  Good standard of education (numeracy and literacy) either GCSE English & Maths (Grade A-C)/equivalent qualifications or equivalent experience


• Food Safety Level 3 (Desirable)


• HACCP Level 3 (Desirable)


• Experience using computers, particularly Microsoft Packages (Excel - pivot tables), downloading photographs


• Willingness to undertaken training in pest awareness, chemical handling, allergens and internal audits
  
  We are FBC UK, Fox's Burton's Companies! ……And we bake the UK's most incredible biscuits (we might be slightly biased, but we will leave that for you to judge).

FBC UK was a match made in heaven, with two of the top UK biscuits manufacturers (Burton's Biscuits and Fox's Biscuits) coming together to create one unique, integrated company.
We are home to famous iconic brands, including Maryland, Fox's, Jammie Dodger & Rocky, to name just a few. We are proud manufacturing partners to some of the biggest UK retailers and household names.
We bake our incredible biscuits at eight bakeries across the UK, located at Isle of Arran, Livingston, Blackpool, Llantarnam, Edinburgh, Kirkham, Batley & Dorset and our HQ in St Albans. Together, we employ circa 4,000 amazing colleagues across all our locations.
We are currently the second biscuit manufacturer in the UK market with a strong ambition of becoming UK Market Leader.
Whilst we know that we have delicious products we also know that that the key ingredient to our success is our people, and the passion we have for our brands. You could be the jammy to our dodger, party ring to our Fox's or the choc-chip to our Maryland?! We knead people with innovative ideas, an entrepreneurial spirit, and the commitment to drive FBC UK to success.
We are committed to building an inclusive workforce that feels empowered to build a fulfilling and successful career. By embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) we create a supportive environment for people to thrive and strive to have more positive impact.
We understand that having formal and on-the-job learning opportunities is key to our colleagues' professional and personal growth. We are committed to providing an environment where everyone can learn from each other and grow through a variety of learning experiences.
Our colleagues make our business special. With strong community values, we believe FBC UK is a more prosperous and fun place to work when people feel free to be themselves. We believe in the power of being authentic, entrepreneurial and supporting each other whilst meeting our business goals., FBC UK is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all of our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey at FBC UK. The diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative and highly rewarding.