Quality Assurance Assistant

As Quality Assurance Assistant you will be providing operationally proactive Quality Assurance. You will monitor real time manufacturing product quality and technical procedures, interpret the results and identify opportunities for the site to make improvements. This role follows a 4 on 4 off shift pattern 0600-1800.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the end-to-end process on site and being able to verify process stability and performance measures.
• Supporting investigations across site through understanding of site processes, monitoring points and controls.
• Interpreting all results, against requirements, with the relevant corrective actions or escalation.
• Capturing, recording and identifying monitoring points in the process.
• Highlighting areas out of tolerance and resolving/escalating as appropriate.
• Completing all sampling and testing as required by site, in a safe, accurate and diligent way.
• Ensuring all tasks are completed and processes critiqued where improvements could be made.
• Supporting the internal audit process, as required, to drive continuous improvement.
• Is confident in communicating technical information.
• Capturing trial results against procedures and gather relevant data to facilitate development of technical product specifications.
• External laboratory systems – logging of samples, sample collection for external testing, booking of samples and reviewing results.

The Important Things:

• Food Safety knowledge
• Good attention to detail
• Methodical analytical approach to tasks

Even Better If:

• HACCP level 2
• Formal Qualifications
• Experience in the food industry in a Quality or laboratory role.
• Internal audit training

Why should I join the family?

We’re independent, British and proud to be making the highest quality yogurts, desserts and ice cream under the Yeo Valley brand and for many of the UK’s major retailers. Operating from four dairies and two logistics centres in Somerset and Devon, we employ over 1700 staff and produce more than 25% of the UK’s packaged yogurt. We’re sure you don’t need convincing, but there’s a whole host of benefits that we offer including:

• competitive holiday allowance
• non-contributory pension scheme
• life cover
• healthcare cash back plan
• cycle to work scheme
• subsidised Yeo Valley products and services
• preferential rates with our partners
• annual bonus (as part of the Employee Benefit Trust, based on company performance for the year)
• learning and development opportunities; we’re committed to ensuring all of our employees have the chance to grow

Application notes:

Our closing dates are a guide for when the application window should close, although we may close the advert sooner if we can. So, we recommend you get your application in straight away – and don’t miss the opportunity to join us! Unfortunately, we’re not able to provide employment sponsorship to candidates at this moment in time. Please note that Yeo Valley do not accept speculative agency applications; we will only accept applications from preferred suppliers that have been submitted to us via our recruitment portal at the point of instruction.