Compliance Technician

Role Purpose

Meadow Foods are looking for a motivated and dedicated Compliance Technician to coordinate all aspects of compliance for incoming materials, storage, finished product and services, ensuring all results, incidents and audits are reviewed and any anomalies raised, and action plans put in place to progress.

Working hours

This role is to be worked on a 4 on 4 off rota basis with day shifts starting from 6am to 6pm and night shifts starting from 6pm to 6am.

Key Accountabilities

• Ensure all Labs and control rooms are maintained in a clean and hygienic environment within the relevant work areas, adopting a clean-as-you-go policy
• Coordinate and carry out testing of all materials including effluent, water, environment, chemical, raw, intermediate, storage and packed product as required. Review results and ensure any anomalies are raised prior to release of product
• Ensure that all equipment and chemicals required for Laboratory are ordered as per the procedure laid out and that Stock control is adequate
• Coordinate shelf-life trials, and additional testing for contaminant monitoring programmes. Organising any non-routine testing as requested by Compliance Manager, sales team or customers
• Organise regular service intervals for all equipment used in the laboratory. Ensure all calibrations are kept within specification for all testing equipment offline, in line and online
• Co-ordinate with the Production Managers and Laboratory Manager on specific quality issues and undertake investigation work where necessary
• Ensure that the HACCP document is completed accurately and in full on a daily basis thus ensuring full traceability on site and advise Departmental Managers on any non-compliance for rectification
• Review and update procedures, documents, policies and specifications including Laboratory Standard Methods, Environmental and Quality documents on a regular basis. Ensure that all the Production staff are trained to complete all analyses following these approved standard methods
• Ensure all audits are completed including monthly internal audits, external audits, glass and hygiene audits as per agreed schedule and that any corrective actions are identified and closed out
• Maintain and administer the Incident management system & complaint system ensuring all issues are investigated to root cause and closed out sufficiently
• Ensure required reports are collated on a timely basis

Essential Requirements

• Trained in Level 3 Food Hygiene
• Strong understanding of COSSH Assessments
• HACCP awareness
• Awareness of Auditing Principles
• Confident using Microsoft Office, including Excel

This is not a full description for the role. A full job description can be provided upon request during the interview stage. Please note applications are being reviewed while this role is advertised and may close earlier if a high number of applications are received.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: £31,641.34 per year

Experience:

• Compliance: 1 year (required)

Work Location: In person