Job Title: QA Auditor

Location: Neston, Cheshire

Salary: £30,000- £36,000 depending on experience

Job Type: Permanent, Full Time. Monday to Friday 9.00am to 5.00pm.

Who are we?

JPL Flavour Technologies was founded in 2016 and has been continuously growing since! It is one of a few privately owned Flavour companies in the UK and opportunities are rife which can be unusual in this niche industry. Our vision is to stretch the limits of creativity as a modern flavour powerhouse, whilst maintaining the core principles we founded as a family-owned business, #theJPLway.

JPL Flavours was built from passion - and that's what we look for in our employees. We adopt a culture of high performance, where our teams are given the autonomy to develop and help truly shape the future of the company.

In the flavour industry it is imperative to ensure our team are as creative as they can be. This is why at JPL we create a warm, family environment where we all share the same goal - making great taste and serving our customers to the best of our abilities.

As a rapidly growing business with big ambitions, we're often looking for highly motivated, talented people to join the team.

It is certainly an exciting time to join the team as we continue to heavily invest in our people, new state of the art equipment and a brand new larger local premises to support our thrilling growth plans.

About the role:

This is an opportunity to join a growing business. This role is the first recruitment to establish our in-house QA team, reporting to the Operations Director and working closely with our QA Consultant. You will play a key role in ensuring that JPL continues to meet all quality and technical standards set nationally and by our customer partners.

As a QA Auditor, you will audit, monitor, improve and evaluate quality systems and procedures and provide technical support for the operational teams as well as maintaining and promoting technical and quality standards in line with business needs and customer requirements.

As well as welcoming applications from candidates from a quality or technical background, we would also like to encourage applications from candidates who have operational or line experience within food production/manufacturing who wish to develop their career. If you have excellent attention to detail, are process driven and can use your initiative to prioritise your workload and problem solve we would like to hear from you.

Responsibilities:

Role responsibilities include:

• To audit compliance against Quality Management Systems, GMP and HACCP controls, raising all non-conformances against relevant standards with objective evidence.
• Effectively communicating to enable the operational teams to take the appropriate and necessary corrective action - then following up and monitoring completion of actions.
• Suggesting areas of improvement, relating to fabrication and procedures.
• Check and monitor the calibration of measurement equipment in accordance with schedules and procedures.
• To assist the external QA consultant in carrying out full investigations on complaints and incidents. Investigations may take the form of sampling, process reviews, traceability, or audits.
• Providing technical support and advice to the factory team in the event of customer visit or audit.

You:

Ideally you will have some professional experience within a similar Technical/QA role in a food environment, but skills can be taught and if you have the enthusiasm and drive to develop within quality assurance this is an excellent first role.

Ideally you will have a degree or diploma in food safety, quality or associated discipline.

An understanding of the chain of custody within the food environment and a background of working on small to mid-sized quality improvement projects, such as implementing new procedures and defining new supporting documentation - will be key.

You will always adopt a thorough and diligent approach to every task and you will be able to demonstrate our key values of customer care, can-do, teamwork and not just getting it right but keeping it right.

Why Choose JPL?

• A competitive salary
• 33 days holiday
• Pension Scheme
• Free onsite parking
• Yearly profit related bonus
• Contractual sick pay
• Employee Wellbeing Programme

If you want to be part of a team who are creating exceptional custom flavours and delivering them alongside unrivalled levels of customer care, whilst committing to honest and traditional business practices, then APPLY TODAY and join a growing business built from passion.

Candidates with the experience of; QA and Test Lead, QA, Quality Assurance Coordinator, QA, Test Lead, Quality Assurance, Continuous Improvement Analyst, Improvement Analyst, will also be considered for this role.