Role: QA Operative (Day Shift)
Working Hours: Monday – Friday: 3:00pm – 11:00pm. Overtime if required.
About us: Theo’s food company is first and foremost a family run business with a real passion for food and as such we take great pride in and are committed to delivering the highest standard of customer care and service.
It all began in 1990 when our company founder started to market and sell a unique blend of marinated chicken in the town of Burntwood in Staffordshire, from which Theo’s food company was born.
We are a busy fast-growing poultry manufacturing company that requires QA Operative to join the QA team. We require someone who is reliable, hardworking, has excellent communications skills, good attention to detail and has a good understanding of Food Safety.
For more Information please visit our Website at https://www.theos-uk.com/
Job purpose: To ensure food safety, quality and regulatory compliance in our poultry processing facility by performing quality assurance activities, monitoring critical control points and enforcing good manufacturing practices.
Job Responsibilities:

• Conduct pre-operation and operations sanitary inspections of production areas
• Perform, quality checks on work in process and finished products
• Monitor and verify critical control points throughout the production process
• Ensure adherence to HACCP, GMP and company food safety policies
• Participate in internal auditing activities
• Accurately complete all required quality assurance paperwork
• Document HACCP corrective actions for non-conforming products
• Verify production check sheets and maintain records
• Identify and report quality issues to a QA manager.
• Liaise with production management on the standard of production checks and support production colleagues when required.
• Metal Detector checks, Scale and probe calibrations, Raw Material Intake check, Water quality checks & Monitoring of product quality/process control
• Assist with technical issues as and if required, outside the usual job description
• Monitoring of traceability on raw materials and ingredients through process

Essential Requirements:

• A minimum of 1 year experience within in the food industry, preferably within a food manufacturing environment.
• Knowledge of HACCAP, GMP and Food safety regulations
• Strong attention to details and analytical skills
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• Computer literacy
• Ability to stand for extended periods
• Comfortable working in a cold environment
• Ability to work alongside QA team and production to resolve issues and non-conformances
• Ability to accurately check key information such as use by dates, allergens, batch codes etc.
• Solid level of numeracy – able to calculate & report on performance
• Remain professional at all times when dealing with all areas of the business including production, technical, NPD etc.

What we offer:

• Flexible and dynamic work environment
• Competitive compensation
• Access to ongoing training and development programs
• Countless opportunities to grow within the company

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Benefits:

• Canteen
• Company pension
• Free parking
• On-site parking

Schedule:

• 10 hour shift
• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday
• Night shift
• Overtime

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Walsall: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

• Are you comfortable working in evening Shift ?

Experience:

• QA: 1 year (required)
• Food industry: 1 year (required)

Language:

• English (required)

Licence/Certification:

• Driving Licence (preferred)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person