As the quality assurance supervisor you will report to the quality assurance manager and you will lead and motivate a small but effective team that is heavily involved with day to day warehouse operations across the site. You will help ensuring the quality and safety of our products on a day to day basis, ensuring customer satisfaction and legal compliance.

 

Accountabilities – may include but not limited to:

• Completing internal (first party) audits and supporting successful external (3rd party) audits of the depot
• Diligent product sampling, inspection and appropriate corrective action
• Provide training to depot team members in all aspects of quality associated with their role
• Demonstrate a proactive problem solving approach to resolve any areas of non-compliance.
• Support produce testing schedules and calibration schedules.
• Monthly completion of departmental KPI’s and Period Review
• Oversee investigation of quality and safety complaints ensuring timely response and corrective action
• Ensure all internal and external food safety or customer audit requirements are met

 

You will be provided with training but to be successful in this role you will need:

• Making decisions on suitability of food quality understanding the implications associated
• Early identification of non-conformance / poor quality standards and taking appropriate action to ensure repetition is effectively managed
• The ability to persuade and influence your colleagues
• Able to cope under pressure and priorities demands
• Ability to deliver team member procedure training
• Ability to work independently on own initiative with minimal supervision
• Ability to interpret and apply safety results, and updates
• Ensuring that company due diligence is maintained

 

As the successful candidate for this role you will have:

• Food Safety Qualification (Level 3 or equivalent)
• HACCP qualification
• Internal auditing qualification
• Experience of BRC food standards and quality management systems
• Experience: Quality Assurance: 1 year (preferred)

 

You will need to be fit and healthy as this role may require physical work including lifting of items (up to 25kgs) and the use of step ladders when required. You will also need to be up to date and compliant with all health & safety and food hygiene legislation.

If this is you, then we look forward to hearing from you.

Benefits

Pension, 33 leave days per year (including public holidays), healthcare cash plan, personal accident insurance, employee discounts, free parking.

Apply

To apply, please complete an application form which can be collected at the depot, or send your CV with a covering letter, including the reference BI/1117 to: Larisa Mustata, Quality Assurance Manager, Oliver Kay, Unit A Bingley Road, Hoddesdon, Herts EN11 0NX, larisamustata@oliverkayproduce.co.uk