Vickerstock are delighted to be working in partnership with our Food Manufacturing client who are committed to excellence on the appointment of Food Safety & Quality Graduate for their site based close to Lurgan.

The successful candidate will be employed on a 2-year fixed term contract and will receive hands-on experience within a busy quality department.

What your day to day will look like:

• Fully conversant in the company's Food Safety, Quality and Laboratory systems.
• Microbiological Testing
• Chemical Testing
• Product Release
• Quality KPI's - trending and taking action where required.
• Food Safety & Quality Systems and document control.
• HACCP and Food Fraud / Defence.
• Good Manufacturing Practices.
• Customer / Supplier complaint management.
• Hygiene and Sanitation.
• Compliance with external standards (e.g. BRC, Customer Codes of Practice).
• Internal Auditing - audit design, completion and noncompliance.
• Problem solving techniques.

What you will need to succeed:

• Degree or equivalent in a technical, food related or science-based discipline.
• Self-motivated individual who has determination and drive to succeed
• First class communicator who has excellent interpersonal skills
• Commitment to Food Safety & Quality and a passion to promote food safety culture with a 'can-do' attitude you will have a commitment to support continuous improvement and change
• Team player who is also able to work unaccompanied
• Able to prioritise multiple activities/requirements and to complete them to the expected level of detail and accuracy
• PC skills with a good understanding of all Microsoft Office Packages

What we hope you do next:

Sound like the career move you've been after and would like to hear more, pick up the phone to Anna now on T 028 9031 3720, or send an updated CV - in Word format - via the link on the page (or email).

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