Laboratory Quality Technician

Quality Technician  

Reports to:                 Quality Assurance Lead (Product)

Location:                    Ledbury, Ornua Ingredients Europe, Hazel Park, HR8 2JQ

Hours:                        Monday- Friday; 40 hours, 2pm-10pm (Fixed Shift)

Salary:                       £14.35 per hour (Grade D)

Benefits:                   Free Onsite Parking, 23 Days holidays & Bank Holidays, Pension, Company Shop (offering discounts on products), Discount on Bikes and Tech Scheme, Confidential Employee Assist Programme.

Ornua (meaning “new gold”) is Ireland’s largest exporter of Irish dairy products, proudly bringing the unique taste of Irish dairy to the world for over 55 years.

Are you a Quality Technician looking for the challenge of taking a mission driven organisation to its next level of success?

 This is a perfect opportunity for somebody looking to start their career in Food Manufacturing and training in this role will be provided.

Why Ornua?

• Ornua operates from 10 business units worldwide, including 16 production facilities, and has sales and marketing teams working in-market across all four corners of the globe.
• The Group is structured across two divisions: Ornua Foods and Ornua Ingredients.
• Ornua Ingredients is responsible for the procurement of Irish and non-Irish dairy products and for the sale of dairy ingredients to food manufactures and foodservice customer across the world.
• Our co-operative ethos lies at the heart of how we do business as a purpose and values-led organisation, creating value for Irish dairy farming families.
• Our Values lie at the core of everything we do. Our five values encourage us to Seek and Embrace New Ideas, Make It Happen, Be Our True Selves, Show You Care, and Achieve Great Things Together.
• We invest in our people and foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Career Progression including Global Mobility opportunities.
• Comprehensive Benefits with regional specific offerings.

Why This Role Is Valuable:

The Quality Technician is responsible for leading on;

• Ensure laboratory supplies are stocked.
• Test our finished products to meet the required specifications, as well as making any corrective actions following non-conformance
• Support with internal audits, such as Glass Plastics factory audits and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Audits
• Lead the scheduled Swabbing and Sampling practices, including quarterly shelf-life testing.
• Approval and release products ready for dispatch
• To provide cover for colleagues during absence or breaks
• Support with creating and setting up labels for production.
• Preparation of samples for micro/chemistry testing. Sending this to external lab and monitoring the results together with recording any out of spec results and drive corrective action on them & notifying about them.
• Creating certificates for customers
• Dealing efficiently with internal and external customer enquiries
• Support team with continuous improvement initiatives to deliver our best quality product.
• Set up and record daily product reviews.
• Measuring finished product cooling temperature with data logger on weekly basis.
• Managing the separation and on hold of non-conforming product
• Monthly testing of water and settle plates.
• Changing the Production knives

What You Bring To The Role:

• Good verbal communication skills
• Computer literacy with literacy and numeric skills
• Able to work effectively as part of a team as well as independently
• Strong Attention to detail

Ornua has ambitious growth plans and we’re building a team to help enable and accelerate that growth. We are looking for people who share our values, are curious, forward-looking, take ownership and work together to build a future for themselves and Ornua.

Would you like to make an impact?

To learn more, please visit Ornua at www.ornua.com