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Main Responsibilities:

• Maintain trust, confidence and effective working relationship with all supplier contacts
• Maintain good working relationship with other departments e.g. Commercial, Operations and Planning, working with them for best solutions.
• Working alongside Quality Control operators and covering tasks when required.
• Internal audit of systems and procedures against company and customer standards. Document and ensure close out of internal audit and GMP audits.
• Respond to enquiries and requests for technical information, support and improvement plans.
• To ensure customer product specifications are compiled and maintained and to manage customer specifications.
• Liaising with sales, commercial and production teams. Compliance with customer NPD, ETI and environmental requirements.
• Development, review and implementation of Health & Safety initiatives within a specified time frame.
• Management of QMS.

Main Duties:

Technical and duties and responsibilities for flowers division including, but not limited to:

• Compliance to BOPP and customer standards. Ensuring standards are consistently implemented and site is audit ready at all times. Support the technical manager in site audits conducted – Both internally and externally.
• Support in the evolution of audit findings and implementation appropriate corrective actions.
• Supplier Due Diligence to meet customer / BOPP requirements.
• Maintain up-to-date RM and FP specs.
• Ensure compliance with sourcing doc.
• Working with other team members to prepare for customer and 3^rd party visits and audits.
• Ensure accurate notification of defects on arrival, good working relationships and communication with suppliers.
• Develop and review SOP’s, QA procedures and product knowledge training as per requirements.
• Investigate internal NC’s and resolve any issues.
• Review shelf life integrity and NC resolution.
• Monitor and control stock rotation (FIFO) and Waste RM.
• Quality control, quality assurance and implementation of quality, legality and safety related systems and procedures.
• Support persons involved in tenders / new business e.g. provision of up-to-date specifications, benchmarking, complaints, QSL.
• To investigate, analyse and respond to customer complaints as and when they arise.
• Production support and supervision of production staff.
• Carrying out regular Health & Safety inspections, reporting defects and action a solution within a specified time frame.
• Production of regular and ad hoc reports with regard to Health & Safety.
• Production of Health & Safety SOP’s in conjunction with Group Health & Safety Manager and carrying out training.
• Ensuring that all process staff and aware of individual product quality standards.
• To contribute to continuous improvement projects.
• Liaise with the department of agriculture staff, complete reviews and audits.
• Event Management.
• Any other duties assigned by the Company

Person Specification / Core Competencies:

• 2/ 3 years experience as QA / Technical on Food / Fresh Produce or FMCG Industry
• Ability to work in a busy environment meeting time / budget deadlines
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Must have excellent Leadership and Management skills
• High attention to detail
• Problems solving and continuous improvement.
• Degree in Food Science or equivalent
• Flexibility for occasional weekend work and ‘on call’ roster