The role is responsible for supporting the day-to-day activities of the technical systems, ensuring finished product quality, food safety, and compliance with customer requirements, accreditation standards, and current legislation. You will work closely with operational teams to ensure issues are managed appropriately
What Are We About?
AB World Foods is a branded food business famous for flavour and as great as our brands are, our people are what makes us special. We are committed to making ABWF a great place to work, grow & develop.
What's The Role About?
As Quality Technician you'll play a key role in supporting food safety, quality, and compliance across the site. Working closely with the QA team and operational departments, you'll help ensure products meet the highest standards and customer expectations while supporting continuous improvement initiatives.
You will support the management of finished product quality through daily batch quality checks, sensory evaluation, packaging and coding verification, and maintenance of quality documentation. You'll coordinate microbiological, nutritional and claims verification testing, ensuring schedules are maintained and risks are escalated appropriately.
An important aspect of the role is supporting investigations into complaints, out-of-specification results, non-conformances, and factory incidents, using root cause analysis and corrective actions to prevent recurrence. You'll contribute to KPI reporting, trend analysis, and the administration of quality management systems while supporting internal audits, traceability exercises, and customer requirements. In addition, you'll help promote a strong food safety and quality culture across the site and provide support during second- and third-party audits.
How Will You Stand Out?
- Insightful problem solving combined with a practical approach.
- Ability to communicate effectively and challenge when required.
- Build effective cross functional relationships.
- Confident to use own initiative in making effective decisions.
- Enthusiasm for Continuous Improvement with a willingness to embrace change and enable improvements.
- Organised and have high attention to detail.
- Be IT literate, possessing basic Microsoft Excel, Power point & Word knowledge.
- Passionate about food safety, quality and delivering exceptional standards.
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Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £27,945.00 per year
Benefits:
- Canteen
- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Free flu jabs
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Leigh, Greater Manchester: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Location: In person
