At a Glance
- Tasks: Inspect fresh produce quality and ensure compliance with customer specifications.
- Company: Join a leading fresh produce company focused on quality and teamwork.
- Benefits: Gain hands-on experience, develop skills, and work in a dynamic environment.
- Other info: Opportunity to grow your career in a fast-paced production setting.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on food quality and safety while working with fresh produce.
- Qualifications: Understanding of fresh produce quality and strong decision-making skills.
The predicted salary is between 31500 - 38500 £ per year.
Love fresh produce? Have a sharp eye for quality? And aren't afraid to make the call when something isn't quite right? We're looking for a QA Inspector to join the team in Holbeach, playing a key role in making sure the produce leaving site is exactly where it needs to be in terms of quality, specification and compliance.
This is a hands-on role where you'll be right in the middle of the operation - checking incoming produce, monitoring quality through production and making sure finished product meets customer expectations.
WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING?
- Inspecting incoming, in-production, stored and finished fresh produce against customer specifications.
- Assessing weights, colour, defects and overall product quality.
- Making decisions on whether product needs to be re-sorted, rejected or ripened.
- Carrying out additional and destructive testing where required.
- Monitoring GMP, hygiene, packing standards and product quality throughout production.
- Tracking reject rates and highlighting quality issues to the relevant teams.
- Checking transport conditions and recording any issues that could lead to claims.
- Carrying out regular checks and calibration of QA equipment.
- Checking labels and product information for compliance.
- Maintaining accurate QA records, traceability information and documentation.
- Supporting audits and requirements linked to BRC and customer standards.
- Coaching production colleagues on quality, GMP and correct procedures.
- Helping train new and inexperienced members of the QA team.
- Keeping your area clean, organised and compliant with hygiene standards.
- Escalating significant quality issues where a more senior technical view is required.
WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
- Has a good understanding of fresh produce quality and can recognise defects and quality issues.
- Is confident making decisions and standing behind them.
- Can work at pace in a fast-moving production environment.
- Has good communication skills and can influence colleagues across QA and Operations.
- Has good IT skills, including Excel and Word.
- Is comfortable working with specifications, records, data and technical documentation.
- Fresh produce experience would be a big advantage, although we're also open to people with strong QA experience and the right attitude who are keen to develop their product knowledge.
- Audit training would be desirable.
If you're ready to put your quality knowledge to work in a busy fresh produce environment, we'd love to hear from you.
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