Quality Assistant

Jardox are currently recruiting a Quality Assistant to join the friendly team in our offices in Wincanton, working 8am – 5pm.

At Jardox, we are the "Taste Behind the Brands." We are a ‘one stop shop’ for all savoury ingredients, specialising in stocks, gravies, curry pastes, marinades, glazes, sausage & burger seasonings and herb & spice based products.

A Quality Assistant works mainly within the Office and/or Testing Room (Lab) area at Jardox and reports directly to the Quality Manager. The successful candidate's role will be made up of the following:

• Positive release of raw materials and finished products manufactured by Jardox

• Ensuring compliance to Jardox standards and assisting with raw material and finished product non-conformances

• To continuously maintain and improve Food Safety Culture within the business

• Data input into Jardox ERP System and Testing Schedules/Logs, including micro/chemical/allergen testing results

• Maintaining Testing Database

• Ensuring Weight-Checker Reports compliance

• Carrying-out packaging and labelling checks

• Ensuring Production Records are compliant and retrievable

• Dealing with Customer requests, including CoAs/CoCs, shelf-life extension and testing requirements

• Lab equipment calibration and recording the calibration results

• Carrying out testing to ensure finished product compliance with the specification, including Aw, Salt, Moisture, pH, Allergen rapid and ELISA

• Carrying out Chemical Titration Testing within the production area

• Preparing samples for Organoleptic Testing

• Maintaining finished product samples library

• Working closely with Production, Warehouse and Customer Services Departments to support the finished product manufacturing process

• Assisting Technical/Quality Compliance Team

We are ideally looking for someone with a qualification in food science / technology or similar, with experience in quality control in a food manufacturing environment.

Here at Jardox there is a great family feel, with a brilliant team spirit. We work hard, and we love what we do. If this sounds like the opportunity for you, please do get in touch.

We close between Christmas and New Year and contribute to your pension at a rate of 5.5%.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £23,000.00-£24,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Cycle to work scheme
• Flexitime
• On-site parking
• Profit sharing
• Referral programme
• Work from home

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Flexitime
• Holidays
• Monday to Friday
• No weekends

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Wincanton, BA9 9RT: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: One location