Quality Assurance Technician - Maternity Leave Cover

The Village Bakery Group; Wales; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A family-owned craft bakery in Wrexham seeks a Quality Assurance Technician for maternity cover. The role involves ensuring product quality through checks, audits, and compliance with food safety standards. Candidates must have HACCP certifications and experience in food manufacturing. The position offers a competitive hourly wage, annual leave, and opportunities for professional development in a positive working environment. Join our quality-driven team to make a difference in the bakery industry.

Benefits

Competitive hourly rate of £14.46

21 days annual leave

Employee discounts platform

Free coffee machines

Professional development opportunities

Progressive working environment

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in a food manufacturing environment is essential.
• Certifications in HACCP levels 2 and 3 are required.
• Strong computer skills, especially in MS Office.

Responsibilities

• Ensure raw materials and products meet specifications.
• Perform GMP Audits and report findings.
• Conduct lab sampling and review results with the Quality Manager.

Skills

Previous experience as a Quality Assurance Technician

Level 2 HACCP Certified

Confident with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook

Self-organised and motivated

Knowledge of Bakery operations and quality requirements

Internal Auditor Certified

Level 3 HACCP Certified

Experience in Bakery manufacturing environment

Job description

Quality Assurance Technician - Maternity Leave Cover

Due to our continued growth and success we are looking for a Quality Assurance Technician to join our Technical Team in Wrexham (LL13 9UZ) for 9 months as maternity leave cover. The hours of work for this role is 17:45pm to 06:00am on a 4on 4off shift pattern.

What would you get for working here?

If you have the Quality Assurance Technician experience and skills, we are looking for then you will receive a total reward package that includes:

• A competitive hourly rate of £14.46
• 21 days annual leave
• Access to an exclusive employee benefits/discounts platform where you can save £££s on your everyday spends
• Excellent coffee machines available free-of-charge
• Professional development opportunities and qualifications
• A progressive working environment that puts its people at the heart of what it does
• Great opportunity for career development

What would you be doing?

Our Vision as a business is to be the “Go-to” supplier of bakery products, working nationally with retailers such as M&S and Waitrose on their premium private label range and regionally through the Village Bakery brand. In achieving this vision, we want to be recognised as a family business that continually invests in the future through the development of our people, quality and food safety culture, equipment and processes.

As a Quality Assurance Technician, you will be directly contributing to this vision through your core tasks and responsibilities these will include, but are not limited to:

• Ensuring that all raw materials and finished products are to specification, including carrying out relevant on-line quality checks, daily QAS checks and Taste Panels.
• Ensuring that processes and procedures are being complied with at all times across the site, including challenging non-conforming practices where identified.
• Carrying out GMP Audits as to the schedule and reporting them promptly to the relevant departmental manager, recording your findings, actions and points scored.
• Following up to ensure issues have been resolved and closed out adequately and communicating any graphs or significant trends to relevant staff.
• Lab Sampling - Take required samples, swabs, water etc according to the schedule and send for appropriate analyses. Review completed results with the Quality Manager and take any measures that may be required.
• Carry out CCP verification, scale checks and any other daily or weekly monitoring, e.g. temperatures of refrigerators, Titrations etc. Ensure that all checks are carried out at the appropriate time and that if any ‘reading’ is out of range that appropriate action is taken immediately.
• A full Job Description for this role is available upon request

What skills and qualifications would you need?

To be a successful Quality Assurance Technician you will need to demonstrate the following skills, qualifications, and attributes:

• Previous experience working as a Quality Assurance Technician in a food manufacturing environment.
• Level 2 HACCP Certified
• Confident working with computers, including Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook
• Self-organised, motivated, and able to prioritise work.
• Knowledge and understanding of a Bakery operation and the quality requirements of both the business and the customer.
• Internal Auditor Certified
• Level 3 HACCP Certified
• Experience working within a Bakery manufacturing environment

So, who are we?

If you haven’t heard of us before we are a family owned and managed Craft Bakery producing an award-winning range of Bread, Morning Goods, Pies and gluten free products.

Our business has been producing products in this category since 1964 and since then we have grown in success due to our reputation for quality, innovation and technical experience. As a result of this continued growth, we now operate from a number of world class and well invested bakeries in and around Wrexham, including our dedicated Gluten free site ‘Gluten Freedom’ and our state-of-the-art ‘Super Bakery’ at Ash Road.

If you would like to join our award-winning, quality-driven team please use the ‘apply now’ link and follow the on-line application instructions.

We look forward to welcoming you to our team soon