Senior Quality Technician in Nuneaton

We are looking for a Senior Quality Technician to join our Nuneaton-based Technical team. At PROPER SNACKS, the Technical team are the tastemakers and gatekeepers of quality and food safety, ensuring the most delicious products are ending up in our snackers’ hands.

The Person

Passion and energy for the best possible results, day after day. You have a relentless drive to motivate and develop the production team to help them create superb products for our consumers. You understand people and care about producing brilliant food; you are the heartbeat of the business!

As a PROPER Senior Quality Technologist, you will operate as an integral part of the site’s quality & technical team based in the Nuneaton Snacktory. The role will report into the Quality Manager. By having an active, ‘eyes wide open’ presence on site to report incidents or issues that may put product safety, quality or legality at risk and take suitable actions. Supporting and coaching the QA team to ensure we are sending out amazing snacks that our consumers know and love. This role is a Monday to Friday shift on an 8am-5pm basis.

The Role

The Senior Quality Technologist is responsible for driving implementation and compliance to site standards with consideration of all aspects of food safety, quality and legality. The role is responsible for supporting and coaching the QA team.

Responsibilities

• Coaching and support of the QA team
• Maintain and ensure adherence to QA compliance checks
• Deputise for Quality Manager where required
• Ensure full implementation of factory-based site audit plan to improve standards and encourage an audit ready everyday approach
• Ensure adherence to factory hygiene standards and cleaning sign offs
• Lead decision making and resolution for non-conforming material and on hold stock
• Weekly review of open holds to ensure close out
• Support and coach factory teams to ensure full understanding and adherence to factory standards
• Represent Technical in factory tier meetings and support Gemba activity
• Drive right first time
• Support factory preparation for 3rd party and customer audits and visits
• Involvement and technical support with factory improvement projects and complaints/hold reduction initiatives
• Completion of GMP and Hygiene audits and support with action close out
• Support with development of site food safety culture
• Management and co-ordination of site calibration schedule
• Ensure full implementation of site environmental monitoring schedule (swabs, water, hand swabs)
• SME for factory technical systems and equipment
• Ensure information needed for generation of reports is recorded accurately and in a timely manner
• Meet data reporting commitments for the business to ensure full visibility and flow of information (Daily KPIs, Weekly KPIs, Operations Scorecard, Monthly Hold Reports)
• Review and analyse data to identify improvement opportunities
• Drive Red zone implementation across all areas for completion of QA checks
• Review and verify red zone data to ensure compliance

Requirements

We are looking for someone with quality assurance experience ideally within a food manufacturing environment. A working knowledge of GMP and basic food safety principles. We are also looking for someone who possesses the following:

• IT literacy (MS Office, E-mail, Excel, Smart Device Apps)
• Good communicator with strong spoken and written skills
• Good numeracy skills, ability to work out averages, percentages etc.
• Diligent with good attention to detail
• Team player to work collaboratively
• Strong influencer to build good cross departmental relationships
• Reliable and flexible ‘can do’ attitude
• Food Safety, HACCP (Level 2 Qualification) - Desirable

About PS

PROPER SNACKS is the home of PROPER and Eat Real. The UK’s fastest-growing major snacks company. We’re a diverse team of builders, thinkers, creators and makers – based in London and Nuneaton and serving snackers across Europe. Our brilliant team are united by an insatiable curiosity and driven by an entrepreneurial spirit at PROPER SNACKS, we don’t sit still. We scale fast, dream big and back our people to make stuff happen. Our values keep us grounded: Be builder, Dream bigger, Seriously fun. Whether you’re joining us in London – where the brands are built, and big ideas take flight. Or in Nuneaton where magic happens in our factory and every bag gets made – you’ll be part of a team shaking up the snacking world.

Our Approach

PROPER and Eat Real is an equal opportunities employer and we do not discriminate on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability, or age.