Quality Assurance Technician - PM Shift

Proper Corn; Nuneaton; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading snacks company based in Nuneaton is seeking a QA Technician to join the technical team. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring food safety, quality checks, and compliance with GMP standards. Key responsibilities include monitoring product quality, conducting audits, and providing coaching to production staff. Ideal candidates will have quality assurance experience within a food environment, strong communication skills, and a passion for delivering high-quality products. This role supports a collaborative working atmosphere aimed at achieving the best results for our snackers.

Qualifications

• Quality assurance experience in food manufacturing.
• Understanding of GMP and food safety principles.

Responsibilities

• Attend daily meetings and communicate issues.
• Monitor product safety, quality, and legality.
• Conduct routine internal audits.
• Verify key measuring equipment as per schedule.
• Prepare for sampling and organoleptic tests.
• Support production team during investigations.
• Complete checks, data entry, and paperwork accurately.
• Coach and assist production team members.
• Check raw materials intake for quality assurance.

Skills

IT literacy (MS Office, E-mail, Excel, Smart Device Apps)

Good communication skills

Good numeracy skills

Attention to detail

Team player

Strong influencing skills

Reliable and flexible 'can do' attitude

Education

Food Safety, HACCP (Level 2 Qualification)

Job description

We are looking for a QA Technician to join our Nuneaton-based Technical team. At PROPER SNACKS, the Technical team are the tastemakers and gatekeepers of quality and food safety, ensuring the most delicious products are ending up in our snackers’ hands.

The Person

Passion and energy for the best possible results, day after day. You have a relentless drive to motivate and develop the production team to help them create superb products for our consumers. You understand people and care about producing brilliant food, you are the heartbeat of the business!

As a PROPER QA Technician, you will operate as an integral part of the site’s quality & technical team based in the Nuneaton Snacktory. The role will report into the Quality Manager.

By having an active, “eyes wide open” presence on site to report incidents or issues that may put product safety, quality or legality at risk and take suitable actions. Monitoring CCP checks along with other quality control points for compliance, to ensure we are sending out amazing snacks that our consumers know and love.

• This role is a Monday to Friday shift on a 2pm-10pm basis.

The Role

This role will be focussed on assisting the Technical team to ensure the day-to-day routine quality control, GMP and hygiene tasks and completed to satisfaction.

Responsibilities

• Attend daily Tier 1 meeting and effectively communicate and elevate issues as required.
• Monitor product safety, quality and legality and ensure issues are escalated appropriately and the right actions are taken.
• Carry out routine internal audits including Glass & Brittle plastics & Quality audits.
• Verify key measuring equipment such as scales, oxygen meters etc to schedule.
• Prepare and partake in sampling and organoleptic testing (taste panels, Yum!)
• Communicate with Shift Managers, Team Leaders and Engineers issues arising during GMP, CCP’s and/or any other internal or external audit to ensure appropriate corrective actions are taken and provide support to production team during investigations.
• Ensure that all checks, data entry and paperwork are completed accurately and on time, to conform to company policy.
• Provide sufficient coaching and assistance to production team members to support problem solving activity
• Check intake of raw materials as required to ensure ingredients are fit for purpose.
• Assist another member of the technical team with ad-hoc tasks as reasonably required.

Requirements

We are looking for someone with some quality assurance experience ideally within a food manufacturing environment. A working knowledge of GMP and basic food safety principles. We are also looking for someone who possesses the following:

• IT literacy (MS Office, E-mail, Excel, Smart Device Apps)
• Good communicator with strong spoken and written skills.
• Good numeracy skills, ability to work out averages, percentages etc.
• Diligent with good attention to detail.
• Team player to work collaboratively
• Strong influencer to build good cross departmental relationships.
• Reliable and flexible ‘can do’ attitude.
• Food Safety, HACCP (Level 2 Qualification) - Desirable

About PS

PROPER SNACKS is the home of PROPER and Eat Real. The UK’s fastest-growing major snacks company.

We’re a diverse team of builders, thinkers, creators and makers -based in London and Nuneaton and serving snackers across Europe. Our brilliant team are united by an insatiable curiosity and driven by an entrepreneurial spirit. At PROPER SNACKS, we don’t sit still. We scale fast, dream big and back our people to make stuff happen. Our values keep us grounded:Be builder. Dream bigger. Seriously fun.

Whether you're joining us in London – where the brands are built, and big ideas take flight. Or in Nuneaton where magic happens in our factory and every bag gets made – you’ll be part of a team shaking up the snacking world. Get a flavour of what life is like at PROPER SNACKS here.

NUN – Townsend Dr – Nuneaton – CV11 6TJ

Our Approach

PROPER and Eat Real is an equal opportunities employer and we do not discriminate on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability, or age.

Please let us know if there is anything we can do to accommodate you to participate fully in the recruitment or interview process.