Night shift QA - Monday to Friday - 7pm to 3am

£15.09 Per Hour

Why Greencore?

We’re a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make every day taste better.  We’re a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing around 13,600 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK’s food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY23, we generated revenues of £1.9bn.  Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,400 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties.

Here at Wisbech, we have a team of 525 colleagues and manufacture premium chilled ready to cook meals for major retailers such as Sainsbury’s, Aldi and Co-op.

What you'll be doing 

As Quality Assurance on nights, you will verify that raw material preparation, manufacturing production and product storage/distribution is compliant with food safety, legal and customers’ quality standards.

• Sample, test, audit and monitor to verify that all processes, procedures and products are being manufactured in a safe and compliant manner
• Conduct verification checks to ensure equipment is suitably calibrated to comply with required standards
• Complete all necessary documentation ensuring that it is kept accurate and ready for internal and external audits and highlighting when non-conformance requires corrective action
• Maintain ongoing communications with the operations team and other relevant functions ensuring they are fully aware of quality assurance activities, results and trends
• Collect all relevant samples, with adherence to procedures and protocols, to ensure quality, safety and legality of products sampled
• Provide education and training to operational colleagues and other teams to ensure compliance with all relevant technical standards
• Ensure that a safe working environment exists for all colleagues and that as a minimum the department meets the standards set out in the Health Safety and Environment policy
• Follow daily schedule of work
• Escalation of non-conformances in a timely manner to the appropriate manager

What we’re looking for;

Educated to GCSE or equivalent standard with numeracy and literacy skill

*       Able to work with basic computer programmes such as Microsoft Office applications

*       Holds a Health and Safety level two and a food hygiene level two qualification

*       CCP training including HACCP principles for Manufacturing Unit

*        Experience and understanding of internal audit processes

*        Has an understanding of allergen awareness and the associated risk

*       Has a knowledge of GMP techniques

*       Understands non-conformance reporting techniques

*       Microbiological awareness – understanding of basic of food safety

*       Has and understanding of basic disinfection principles, basic legal labelling practice and basic weight legislation

We’re not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.  If this sounds like you join us, grow with Greencore and be a part of driving our future success.

What you’ll get in return

• Holidays
• Pension
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Employee appreciation events
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Canteen
• Onsite staff shop
• Free onsite car park

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.