Hygiene Quality Assurance Technologist

Hygiene Quality Assurance Technologist
Redditch
Permanent
£28,000 - £31,000 p/yr

What’s on offer?

Monday – Friday
6am – 2:30pm
33 days annual leave including bank holidays
4x death in service
Discount package (days out, retail, gym memberships etc)
Health and wellbeing package including GP hotline

The responsibilities of the successful Hygiene Quality Assurance Technologist:

Night hygiene deep clean and days interim production hygiene audits on a scheduled basis.
Conduct scheduled and adhoc announced and unannounced site audits to ensure compliance with hygiene procedure and factory environment standards, with full documentation detailing corrective and preventative actions, verification closure to prevent repeats
Swabbing environmental monitoring verifications to be carried out according to schedules.
Targeted approach to prevent cross contamination hazards namely microbiological, allergenic, chemical and physical from the environment/equipment to product
Supporting the Site Standards Manager in completion of Hygiene Standards cleaning validation.
Conduct and support with hygiene investigations individual and/or trending out of specification microbiological, ATP, Allergen results.
Review and maintain the management of chemical controlled storage and identification in all site areas.
To be involved in audits on site by external bodies; Customer, BRC, Organic etc to ensure compliance with hygiene procedures and factory environment standards.
Monitoring the condition of hygiene equipment, production utensils, PPE etc reporting to the site standards controller to ensure issues are resolved in a timely manner.
Verification through monitoring staff entrance procedures into production areas, hand washing and PPE compliance.
Audit the hygiene teams on days and / or nights to identify and support with issues raised by BEF (i.e. operations, engineering or QA). Verify closure of the actions and ongoing monitoring for the issues.  
Maintaining and monitoring the compliance of hygiene documentation.
Work positively and cross functionally with all departments to drive continuous improvement and area ownership for high GMP site standards
To be a member of the site internal audit team for systems and practical factory audits
Fully understand and comply with all department and company policies and guidelines
Any other duties or projects that may be assigned as deemed necessary to the needs of the business.
The accountabilities of the successful Hygiene Quality Assurance Technologist:

Completion of Hygiene standards and audits in compliance with scheduled requirement
Swabbing in accordance with scheduled routine and validation requirement
Completion of hygiene investigations
Supporting the site to ensure no non-conformances in audits for hygiene related areas
Hygiene documentation well maintained
The successful candidate MUST:

Experience in food industry, understanding of HACCP, Hygiene Management/Control
Hygiene chemical trained / experience
Hygiene auditor trained / experience