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Job Description
Summary: Seeking a Shift Quality Supervisor to maintain and refine the company's QA system, drive quality in food safety and product quality, and lead audits in the absence of the Site Quality Manager.
O'Brien Fine Foods is an Irish family business based in Timahoe, Co. Kildare. We employ over 700 people and specialise in the manufacture and marketing of premium meats, supplying both branded and private label ranges to retailers across Ireland and the UK. Our Technical team are at the heart of our business, responsible for ensuring we produce high quality and safe products for our Customers and Consumers while complying with all Legislative and Regulatory requirements for Food Processing. **Job Description:** * Assist in training and developing the Quality Officer Team * Participate in all Quality Audits * Lead all audits in the absence of the Site Quality Manager * Drive quality in terms of food safety and Product Quality resulting in improved audit results and reduction in customer complaints * Coach and Train staff on floor through documented SOPs * Conducting Traceability/Recall audits, reporting issues to production and working with production to drive improvements * Dealing with customer complaints including Investigation and close out with production and quality team * Management of the micro sampling plan, trending results and highlighting any issues to the Production cleaning team * Management of the Calibration schedule for the site * Management of Pest control programme for the site * To work with the operations team to build in quality into our production processes to ensure we get quality right first time * Cover for QA team holidays if necessary **Requirements:** * A degree in a food science course or equivalent * Knowledge of HACCP systems * Knowledge of BRC, Bord Bia and TFS * Minimum 3 years experience * Fluent English