Lead X-Ray Screeners sought by a £multimillion pound food products manufacturer to join their team in Bilston.
They are recruiting 3 roles, 1 for each of the following shift patterns:
- Morning: Monday to Friday 5.30am – 3pm
- Days: Monday to Friday 8.30am – 6pm
- Evenings: Tuesday to Friday 2pm – 10.30pm, Saturday 8.30am – 5pm
The Role:
As Lead X-Ray Screener, you are responsible for ensuring the effective operation, performance, compliance, and continuous improvement of all x-ray inspection processes.
The role provides technical leadership, supports food safety objectives, drives operational standards, and acts as the primary point of contact for all x-ray-related activities within the production environment.
Your day to day duties will include:
- Take ownership of the day-to-day operation, monitoring, calibration, and validation of x-ray inspection systems to ensure optimal performance and food safety compliance.
- Act as the site expert for x-ray operations, providing guidance and support to production teams while ensuring correct product presentation and system settings.
- Monitor equipment performance, identify faults or trends, and coordinate with Engineering and external service providers to resolve issues quickly.
- Maintain accurate records, reports, and corrective actions using Redzone, analysing data to identify risks and drive continuous improvement.
- Lead investigations into equipment failures, contamination incidents, and process deviations, implementing effective corrective and preventive actions.
- Ensure all x-ray-related activities meet food safety, quality, and compliance standards, supporting audits and promoting best practice across the site.
- Communicate findings, quality concerns, and performance updates to relevant stakeholders, escalating issues where necessary.
- Exercise authority to stop production where food safety, x-ray controls, or operational standards are compromised.
Your skills and experience as Lead X-Ray Screener:
- Experience with x-ray food safety inspection systems including operation, monitoring, calibration and validation
- Knowledge of industrial food scanning within the food manufacturing sector
- Working knowledge of food quality and safety standards
- Experience of working in conjunction with Quality department
- Ability to analyse trends in x-ray data to identify recurring issues and opportunities for improvement
- Experience of using Redzone food safety compliance software would be beneficial
Benefits:
- £13.44 per hour
- £14.19 per hour after 6pm (evening shift)
- £15.60 per hour Saturday rate (evening shift)
- Overtime rate £16.80 (after 45 hours)
- Bank holiday rate £20.16
- 42 hours per week
- 28 days holiday
- Unpaid breaks: 2 x 30 minutes (morning and day shifts), 2 x 20 minutes (evening shift)
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Full training provided
- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
Lead X-Ray Screeners – Morning, Day, Evening shifts available
Bilston, West Midlands
£13.44 to £15.60 (Saturday) per hour + overtime + benefits
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