Great opportunity to work as a Quality Controller for our client, a manufacturing site packing fruits and vegetables.

Staffline is recruiting for a Quality Controller in Northwich.

The rate of pay is:
- 0-12 weeks £11.79 per hour
- 13 weeks and over £12.19 per hour.

This is a full-time role working fixed shifts, Monday to Friday, the hours of work are:
- 7am to 3pm

Your Time at Work

As a Quality Controller, you will use trained skills to complete all tasks assigned by a member of the management team, ensuring quality and food-safe products are produced for the customer. Other duties include:

- Checking the quality and legal compliance of the products at the required times to ensure the food safety, quality, legality, and authenticity of the products, including conducting raw material assessments where required, following specifications.
- Advising internal customers (Production and Technical) of all non-conformances that will affect food safety or legal compliance where applicable e.g. incorrect date codes, product underweight, etc.
- Escalating rejections or intake quality issues to internal colleagues and suppliers, detailing to suppliers why products have been rejected, and escalating to a Manager where required..
- Carrying out activities that identify and eliminate quality problems to ensure customer requirements are continually met, including supporting internal audits.
- Ensure that the site adheres to standards and specifications in order to minimise and prevent legal infringements.
- Completing daily assessments of products from each production run to ensure the shelf life of products meets required standards and specifications.

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) must be worn at all times.

Our Perfect Worker

Our perfect worker will have:

- Awareness of specification of a range of products produced in all areas of work, including seasonality of products - the site will provide training through a full season to understand products.
- Understanding of British Retail Consortium (BRC), MMS and customer Code of Practice (COP)
- Basic maths, office, and excel skills.
- Understanding of product allergens.
- Food Safety Level 2.
- HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) Level 2 where required.

You will be happy to work across multiple production environments with varying temperatures of approx. 8 degrees and below, and occasionally working in damp and wet conditions where required.

Quality Controllers will comply with all relevant business and site policies such as Health and Safety and Food Safety Standards.

The site will provide training in order to complete the tasks, quality, specification and operational requirements.

Experience in a similar role is desirable, but not essential as full training is provided.

Key Information and Benefits

- Earn £11.79- £12.19 per hour
- Monday to Friday
- Temp to perm opportunity
- OnSite support from Staffline
- Canteen on site
- Free car parking on site
- Full training provided

Job Ref: 1MOGP

About Staffline

Staffline is the biggest recruiter in the UK and Ireland, and we believe in putting people first. Every day, we help tens of thousands of people find work in logistics, food, transport, retail, and agriculture. We can do the same for you.

We listen to the needs of our workers and always aim to offer flexible shift work and opportunities for overtime, as we know these are important to you.

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