QA Supervisor (Night Shift)

Main purpose

Enforce and maintain the agreed quality and safety of the company’s products and site through specific responsibilities and through effective supervision of the QA Technicians. Please note this role is fully onsite and is a permanent night shift (11pm to 7am).

Responsibilities

1. To effectively manage their team day to day, carry out on the job training and regular performance reviews.
2. To be able to work within a team, be flexible in both working environment and working to a shift pattern, be able to have a positive input to the team.
3. To ensure that good inter departmental working relationship within the team as well as other departments.
4. To attend daily production meetings and make an active contribution.
5. Provide a service to the production team by ensuring that all products are made correctly to specification, labelled and packaged correctly. The QA Technicians should carry out independent QA checks during the production and these checks marked on production QA paperwork in red along with any resulting corrective actions.
6. Circulate a shift report detailing issues raised and actions taken during the shift.
7. Provide a timely investigative resource to the department to investigate potentially defective product and to provide recommended course of action.
8. Ensure that duties or duties delegated to their team as detailed in the department planner are carried out timely, examples would be regular calibration of equipment, GMP auditing, temperature checks, maintaining standard reference samples.
9. Maintaining agreed stock levels of equipment spares.
10. Ensuring that external calibration of CCP/QCP equipment is up to date.
11. To be able to check paperwork for accuracy and rectify mistakes arising.
12. To ensure that all product samples are dispatched to the relevant workplace enabling accurate product comparisons.
13. Ensure that samples are sent for micro/allergen testing in the agreed way, providing the contractor with all the necessary information.

Benefits

• Company events
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free on-site parking
• Life insurance
• Free tea, coffee and hot drinks
• Discount scheme offering savings at supermarkets, electrical retailers and more.
• Team events and long-service awards.
• Training and development opportunities.

About us

At EPC, we blend culinary creativity and manufacturing expertise to create award winning Chutneys, Mayonnaise and Salad Dressings for the leading UK Retailers, Quick Service Restaurants and Food Manufacturers. EPC is also the home of some of the UK’s most beloved food brands, Very Lazy® and Newman’s Own® which is made under licence.

We are passionate about bringing ideas to life in the form of brilliantly crafted food products. Our success is driven by our people, individuals who bring talent, skills and unique perspectives. Every role at EPC plays a vital part in our achievements.