[ref. e88657118] Food Safety & Quality Graduate - Waterford

Overview:

Contract type: Full-Time/Permanent

Ensuring that all products are in alignment with both the company's policies and the retailer's policies and strategies. Your role will be key as part of the Technical team in the delivery and efficient implementation of Technical practices and procedures.

Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will be based in our Grannagh primary production plants and will be responsible for:

• Having an awareness of food science and nutrition with a focus on best practice and from a legislative perspective - Food safety, hygiene and nutritional requirements
• Assisting with quality operations, procedures and document control
• Maintaining and updating the department files including SOPs, risk assessments, HACCP documents and quality management documents
• Carrying out audits as per schedule
• Evaluating the written SOP's being carried out
• Maintaining and managing non-conformance logs
• Logging complaints and communicating to the relevant personnel
• Assisting with close out investigations into complaints including root cause analysis
• Microbiological and chemical sampling of finished product and raw materials as per sampling schedule
• Carrying out internal audits and assisting with external and customer audits

Qualifications:

Your role will see you tackle a wide range of business challenges in a busy Technical environment.

The ideal Candidate will have or demonstrate:

• A degree in a related discipline (Food Technology, Ag Science, Nutrition, Food Science or similar)
• Proficient in Microsoft word/excel/outlook etc. Decisiveness and the ability to work well as part of a team
• Strong attention to detail
• Commercial awareness
• Excellent communication skills - Oral & written
• HACCP trained is an advantage

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