Quality Assurance Officer
A Quality Assurance Officer is required to join our production team in West Dublin. This role is a full-time employment opportunity with a market leading salary.
Key Responsibilities:
* Maintenance and continuous improvement of the Food Safety & Quality Management Systems.
* Responsible for maintaining food safety and quality standards during production shift.
* Ensuring production documentation is completed accurately and filed in quality office.
* Ensuring all daily checks and scoring is carried out as required.
* Conduct hygiene audits, structural audits, internal and glass audits as per schedule.
* Ongoing monitoring of picking, loading and associated activities.
* Monitoring of external site standards including waste storage.
* Raw material conformity inspections.
* Quality inspections of bought-in goods.
* Monitoring and execution of the non-conforming product procedure.
* Finish product quality standards.
* Raw material and finished product analysis.
* Aess product samples, record findings and report as appropriate.
* Highlight and measure gap analysis in processes to ensure compliance to food safety and food quality standards.
* Document control and updates.
* Training – identify training needs and carry out on the job training with operators.
* Monitoring of site security and associated food defence controls.
* Generate shift handover report.
Requirements:
* QA experience in food manufacturing environment.
* Training in food hygiene, HACCP and internal auditing.
* Ability to drive quality and food safety standards in a high paced food manufacturing environment.
* Candidate must possess strong attention to detail and assertiveness to drive standards with a 'can-do' attitude.
* Knowledge of EHO, DoA, Weights & Measures, FSSC 22000, BRC & RSPO requirements.
* Knowledge of labelling and food legislation.
* Able to build effective working relationships inside and outside the Company at various levels.
* Strong organisational, planning, time management, project management, problem-solving, and anticipatory skills.
* The capacity to work under pressure, meet tight deadlines and be flexible.
* The ability to work on own initiative and as part of an interdependent team.
* Proven track record of delivering work with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.