Quality Assurance Assistant

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Greenfield Foods produces packs and distributes over 7 million eggs per week for the Irish Market place, produced on over 70 farms nationwide.

Our Eggs are Bord Bia Quality Assured and we are very proud to be awarded Gold Membership in Bord Bias Origin Green Programme and Grade A in the BRC Global Standards. Our Environmental Management System is based on the ISO14001:2015 and Origin Green Sustainability Charter.

The role of the Quality Assurance Assistant is to work closely with the Quality team & production in maintaining Quality Control / HACCP procedures on a daily basis. The role will involve testing and examining all produce to ensure the highest standard of quality is achieved for all customers.

Reporting to the Quality Manager, the Quality Assurance Assistant will work in a team ensuring that the packing centre maintains its high levels of quality control and food safety. This person will support the implementation of 3rd party and customer standards ensuring all requirements are met. The successful candidate will support audits and compliance projects.

A career with Greenfield Foods offers you an opportunity to work in a modern egg packing facility that provides opportunities to explore and grow in an exciting environment. Why not join our team?

Key Responsibilities:

· Assist in carrying out internal audits on a routine basis/ ensure the factory is compliant with all quality regulations & requirements.

· Maintain detailed and accurate records of all quality checks performed during production.

· Ensure HACCP, VACCP and TACCP principles are continuously met for product safety and process control.

· Ensure BRC requirements are maintained as set down in the relevant standard and ensuring traceability is maintained for all lines.

· Ensure cross-checking traceability for each delivery and contact all suppliers to obtain traceability in advance.

· Work closely with the production team to uphold and improve quality standards. Analyse Production Quality KPI’s and proactively report trends and liaise with production teams & Farm Officers in problem solving.

· Support with development, implementation, and management of food safety management systems (FSMS) in accordance with current legislation, and to prescribed standards including certification standards, customer standards and industry best practise standards to develop policies, procedures and SOP’s and relevant records to ensure the requirements of an effective FSMS is documented and recorded satisfactorily.

· Proactively identify and address hazards to prevent risks to product safety, initiate corrective and preventative actions, and oversee their effective implementation to address problems and drive continuous improvement.

· Work closely with the QA Manager to ensure that corrective actions are delivered, and non-compliance issues are resolved on time.

· Work closely with the QA Manager to review external non-conformance and complete complaint investigations, to ensure a rigorous approach to root cause analysis and that corrective and preventative actions are put in place in a timely manager.

· Monitor compliance of traceability systems, log, trend and communicate results.

· Conduct mass balance exercises as part of customer traceability tests and routinely to verify product “claims”.

· Pest control monitoring

Key Competencies:

· Excellent attention to detail & organisational skills in relation to quality, traceability, labelling and maintaining records.

· A team player with the ability to work independently and make decisions when needed.

· Comfortable working in a fast paced environment.

· Excellent verbal/communication skills. Eager to build a good working relationship with other departments within the company.

· Self-motivated and have the ability to work under pressure.

· Dependable and proactive, with the ability to identify and resolve quality issues quickly.

· Flexible to the needs of the business.

Desirable Skills/Experience

· Previous experience in a similar role or within the food industry is an advantage, but not essential—full training will be provided.

· 3rd level qualification in relevant discipline (e.g. Food Science/Food Manufacturing/Food Safety) desirable

· Working knowledge of BRC, HACCP and Food legislation an advantage

· Good computer skills in MS Office suite

· Passion for Food Safety Standards

Benefits:

• Competitive overtime rates in excess of non-core hours and weekends.
• Employee Wellbeing Initiatives throughout the year
• Cycle to work scheme

Working hours:

• The core working hours are 8am to 4:15pm Monday to Friday, however, from time to time you are expected to be co-operative in working outside these hours if necessary.
• In busier periods weekend work may be required and will be rotated within the team.
• Public Holidays – Employees are required to work Public Holidays in rotation with the other Quality Staff

Please no agency replies or solicitations

Greenfield Foods is an equal opportunities employer

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

• Bike to work scheme
• On-site parking

Work Location: In person