The Role
Reporting to the Quality Manager, the successful candidate will work within the Quality Team to ensure that day-to-day production operations are conducted in a quality-focused way. This will involve meeting deadlines and ensuring both food safety and customer quality standards are maintained.
Responsibilities will include the following: Be a proactive member of the Quality Assurance Team to ensure all products produced in Ballymaguire Foods comply with all food safety quality and legislative requirements.Work with Shift Supervisors and their team to ensure preparation, portioning, and packing of food products is done according to our established standards and customer specifications.Implement corrective action programs for any non-conformances raised in the factory and establish root cause and preventative action.Plan, conduct, and monitor testing and inspection of raw materials and products to ensure finished product quality.Carry out product and process validations on each CCP in the factory on an annual basis, drawing up a schedule and managing this to ensure completion.Ensure all production and quality paperwork are filled correctly and comply with all food safety standards and legislation.Carry out calibration checks on equipment in the factory such as temperature probes, data loggers, and scales.Perform validations and verifications on processes in the factory crucial to product safety, including allergen validations, cleaning validations, CIP validation, sanitiser tunnel validation, and species validation.Monitor and verify cleaning processes in the factory, carrying out ATP and environmental swabbing as part of this.Conduct internal audits such as glass and hard plastic, pre-production, GMP and hygiene audits, and any other audits of the quality management system as required.Perform positive release checks such as product tasting and strip analysis, gas level checks, weights, temperatures, and full compliance to specification.Carry out both manual temperature checks in all monitored areas in the factory and analyze data logger information to monitor temperatures in the factory, storage, and during transport.Monitor all procedures being carried out in the factory ensuring they comply with Ballymaguire standards and customer and legislative requirements at all times. These procedures include personal hygiene, foreign body control, traceability, sleeve and label control, allergen and species control, etc.Interested candidates will preferably have a minimum of 1 year experience in a quality role within a production/manufacturing environment gained in a food setting. A 3rd level qualification in food science or a related discipline is desired.
Candidates must be available to work a Monday to Saturday shift roster and, due to the nature of the business, be prepared to work flexible hours. Access to own transport will be necessary due to the location of the business.
Contract:
This is a full-time permanent position subject to 6 months' probation.
Ballymaguire Foods
Rathmooney
Lusk, Co. Dublin
K45 NP03
Ireland.
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