Job Title: Food Safety and Quality Technician
Location: Hull, UK
Sector: Food Ingredients
About the Opportunity:
I am currently working with a leading food ingredients company based in Hull, who is seeking to hire a Food Safety and Quality Technician. This is an excellent opportunity for a proactive and detail-oriented individual with a strong background in food safety, compliance, and quality assurance to join a reputable and dynamic business. If you have a passion for maintaining high standards and enjoy working in a collaborative environment, this role could be your next career move.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as the key point of contact for technical/product queries from customers, liaising with suppliers to ensure requests are resolved efficiently.
- Support the maintenance and updating of Food Safety & Quality (FS&Q) management systems, including product specifications, technical data, and quality standards.
- Work closely with the FS&Q Manager to ensure all teams adhere to food safety, quality, and regulatory requirements.
- Assist with CAPA (Corrective Action and Preventive Action) processes, handling complaints, internal non-conformances, and supplier incidents, and driving continuous improvement initiatives.
- Conduct internal audits, prepare detailed reports, and perform trend analysis to identify areas for improvement.
- Manage Supplier Approval Questionnaires (SAQs) and Raw Material Questionnaires (RMQs), ensuring compliance with supplier management protocols.
- Deliver Food Safety training across the site, ensuring all staff are up to date with relevant standards and practices.
- Collaborate with external Pest Control Providers to maintain site hygiene and pest control standards.
- Ensure Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) are upheld and support the internal auditing process.
Deliverables and Key Outcomes:
- Play an instrumental role in assisting with BRC, ISO, Halal, Kosher, and customer audits.
- Maintain and update key systems like HACCP, BRC, and customer specifications, ensuring full compliance with regulatory and customer requirements.
- Ensure all documentation is up to date to meet audit requirements, both internally and externally.
- Assist in maintaining the HACCP process to meet customer and regulatory standards.
- Ensure the timely and accurate completion of daily, weekly, and monthly KPI reports.
- Complete audit schedules On Time In Full (OTIF) and follow up on all non-conformances (NCRs) and factory observations (FORs).
- Log, investigate, and address customer complaints to drive improvement and prevent repeat issues.
What We're Looking For:
- A solid background in food safety, quality assurance, or a related field, ideally within the food ingredients or manufacturing sector.
- Strong understanding of food safety regulations, such as BRC, ISO, HACCP, and customer audit requirements.
- Detail-oriented with excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.
- Proficiency in analysing technical data, trends, and reports.
- Experience with internal auditing, CAPA, and maintaining FS&Q systems.
- Excellent communication skills to liaise with customers, suppliers, and internal stakeholders.
- A team player who is willing to train and support other departments in food safety and quality practices.
Why This Role? This site has received significant investment in recent years and is in an exciting period of expansion and growth. The team are friendly and supportive of career development. This vacancy is a result of promotion of the previous post holder.
Next Steps: If you have the relevant experience and are interested in exploring this exciting opportunity, please apply with your CV