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Rewards and Benefits on Offer;

* Competitive salary

* Career progression opportunities.

* Stable growing organisation.

* Overtime opportunities (paid at 1.25x)

Working Hours:

* Shifts – 4 shift system:

* 6am-2pm Monday to Friday,

* 2pm-10pm Monday to Friday,

* 10pm-6am Sunday to Thursday,

* 8:30am-4:30pm Monday to Friday

* (Office based during 4th rotation)

MTrec’s New Opportunity;

MTrec Technical are proudly representing our prestigious engineering client, based near Newcastle, with their plans for growth and expansion, by recruiting a permanent Shift Quality Lead to join their team. You will be joining a fast-paced, dynamic company, with an excellent team-based culture and huge opportunities to progress your career. Our client will be soon entering a period of sustained growth and expansion as they widen their customer portfolio, with a significant number of high value orders for many years into the future. You will be joining a very secure and expanding business, where you will enjoy a varied working environment, and great team culture.

If you have a background in Quality Assurance, ideally within an FMCG environment, please apply now for an immediate response.

The Job You’ll Do;

* Completion of Process audits against the company standards & procedures to include: audit mixing processes and moisture & water activity tests and colour measurements on finished product in line with product specification; audit coding checks on flow-wrap film, cartons and outer case labels in line with product specification including barcode verification, audit routine verification and fail-safe checks on in-line metal detectors and verification checks on in-line checkweighers.

* Audit tests on finished product against QAS documents.

* Complete all relevant documentation accurately, in full and in a timely manner.

* Conduct rapid swabs on the production line & equipment as part of the line clearance procedures.

* Collect all samples required for microbiological testing, Taste Panels and Retained samples.

* Log samples for testing,

* Deal with Non-Conforming product to prevent its release in accordance with procedure.

* Conduct daily temperature checks on fridges.

* Conduct monthly verifications of temperature probes.

* Carry out environmental swabbing and water testing as required.

* Ensure handover procedure is followed with incoming/outgoing QA operatives by being at the QA Station 10 minutes prior to start of shift.

* Maintain the set hygiene standards and ensure clean as you go procedure is followed at all times.

* Follow traceability procedures - ensure all Raw Materials, Packaging, Work in Progress and Finished product are identified/labelled at all times.

About You;

* HACCP/BRC experience is desirable.

* FMCG/Food/Food packaging background desirable.

* Excellent written and verbal communication skills is essential.

* Quality Assurance/Quality Control experience is essential.

* Supervisor/Team leading experience is desirable.

* Flexible to cover various shift patterns for other in the department when required