Raw Materials QA

Raw Materials QA

Days of Work: Monday to Friday

Location: Glenfield

The Role

The Raw Materials Co-ordinator will ensure that all food and packaging materials delivered to site are to the specification required and approved by site and customer. This includes product checks and enforcing good standards at intake and in all storage areas. Your responsibilities will include:

  • Ensure the materials brought to site are monitored and released to use based on relevant food safety and quality parameters
  • Work with production to ensure paperwork is correct and traceability is maintained
  • Support all customer visits from the technical side of the business
  • Generate KPI’s in agreed time scale
  • Be the product Quality ‘Champion’ covering everything from Specs to Quality to Aesthetics of the product
  • Ensure all intake checks for ingredients are carried out according to agreed standard including PH, temperature, sensory, salinity, density, viscosity etc.
  • Review all COA and COC information for each delivery.
  • Maintain active records of inspections of all raw materials delivered.
  • Raw material management: micro and nutritional schedule maintenance
  • Issue and complete non-conformances and communicate any non-conformities with suppliers and transport companies
  • Support the Raw Materials Specialist with supplier risk assessments and reviews, maintaining an active approved supplier and raw material database
  • Drive Good Manufacturing Practices
  • Support in the creation of procedures, forms and product quality standards as required
  • Train warehouse staff on relevant processes, products and procedures
  • Coordinate Technical tasks relating to raw materials to ensure the site is audit ready at any time

About Us

At Geary’s, we’re on a crusade to make proper bread more accessible to more people. We’re passionate about re-imagining the way Great Britain thinks about their everyday loaf. This passion is at the heart of everything we do, and have done, since 1906.

We are ‘born and bread’ in Leicestershire and proud of our long-standing heritage. Today we operate from three sites on a 24/7 operation and we’re made up of over 800 people: a friendly, diverse, and outgoing team, passionate about making a difference to the bakery industry.

We provide full training and support, and the chance to learn new skills from some of the best master bakers in the country. We invest in those who are committed to our craft and offer great opportunities to develop into supervisory and management roles. Our brilliant benefits include BUPA Cashback scheme, Death in Service, a Cycle to Work scheme and free delicious bread!

Plus, if you refer a friend to join our team, you could earn up to £500!

#wearegearys

About You

At Geary’s, we look for people who show up every day to do their best. We’re a passionate, friendly team and look for the same qualities when seeking to grow our team. We firmly believe your attitude and approach is just as important (if not, more so) than the skills and experience on your CV.

We’re looking for someone who has:

  • Internal Auditing
  • A passion for sharing knowledge and raising standards
  • Strong attention to detail and accuracy for documentation completion
  • Intermediate experience with excel and reporting systems
  • Ability to understand and apply current applicable food legislation, BRC Global Standard, and customer codes of practice
  • Good analytical abilities
  • Able to coach on procedures and process, when non-conformance is identified
  • Leads by example
  • Task orientated and a completer finisher
  • Decision making
  • Exceptional communication skills
  • Experience of working within a bakery

Skills and Experience:

  • Level 3 Food Safety
  • Level 3 HACCP
  • Supply chain knowledge
  • Labelling and Packaging legislation
  • Basic Environmental and Product Microbiology
  • RASSF and Horizon Scanning knowledge
  • PAS 96/Food Defence and Bioterrorism knowledge
  • 852/2004 the Hygiene of Foodstuffs knowledge
  • Food Safety Act 1990 knowledge

Please submit a CV in application. No agencies.

If you have not heard from us within seven days, unfortunately you have not been successful on this occasion, but we wish you every success in your search for a new position.

All applicants must have the right to work in the UK, at point of interview, and for the tenure of employment contract. As part of the recruitment process, you will be asked to provide documented evidence of your eligibility to work in the UK.

Salary: GBP 36000 - 60000 per year Experience: 3 years required
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