Job Purpose:
To organise and control the monitoring of plant hygiene and product / raw material microbiological conditions, with the aim of maintaining a high standard of hygiene and product safety.Dimensions:
Working as part of the Technical team based on day shift.
Managing the microbiological testing of raw materials, finished product, water and environmental swabbing & monitoring processes. Providing results and recommendations based on results obtained. Maintain CLAS microbiological accreditation including appropriate customer standards.

Principle Accountabilities:
Safety & Environment

• Ensure you lead by example, undertaking your role safely, adhering to all site controls and safe working practices, challenging unsafe behaviour and practices of employees and peers.
• Promote Health & Safety by adhering to and enforcing good practices.
• Understand the teams’ impact on the environment and what can be done to reduce this.
• Checks that laboratory areas where duties are taking place are kept clean in accordance with the “clean as you go” policy.
• Identifies and reports any Safety or Environmental issues to the Quality Improvement Leader.
• Ensure PPE is worn correctly at all times, in accordance with site procedures and challenge non-conformance.
• Understand the risks involved in your area of work and identify gaps within the risk assessments and resolves them methodically based on the risk.
• Ensures that accidents and near misses are reported in the proper manner.
• Ensures that all chemicals are stored correctly i.e. aromas are returned to the correct locked store or stored within the laboratory flammable cupboards.

Quality

• Ensure microbiological testing, methods and laboratory comply with CLAS and customer requirements.
• Monitor environmental conditions by maintaining an effective plant hygiene monitoring system, by examining cleaning regimes to reduce the number of product contamination/deterioration incidents to a minimum.
• Assess the microbiological risk associated with raw ingredients, identifying those that are a hazard and monitoring them to ensure that product maintains it’s ‘quality’ throughout its life.
• Use D-Count equipment to test raw materials prior to tanker off-load and drum usage.
• Carry out routine assessment of filled finished product to ensure conformance to specification.
• Assist in the development of new products assessing the microbiological safety of the product prior to its launch, to prevent ‘unsafe’ products being produced.
• Maintain the micro laboratory equipment and general operation to comply with accreditation systems. Ensuring that any waste is disposed of correctly.
• In conjunction with the shift coordinators, review and improve housekeeping, hygiene and GMP practices to ensure that standards are achieved and improved upon.
• Provide additional information and findings to other internal departments to allow improvements to be made to keep product within required specifications.
• Actively participate in new equipment CIP & sterility validation and product shelf-life monitoring.
• Have Internal Auditor training and be part of the site Internal Audit Team to review site compliance to internal processes.
• Involve the QA Manager and/or Technical Manager when decisions are outside provided guidelines.

Cost

• Control the use of all consumable materials used in the microbiological laboratory, ensuring that work is not delayed by lack of resource.
• Continuously strives to improve work practices and identify more efficient ways of working.

Delivery

• Contribute to the achievement of OEE by communication relating to CIP ATP test trends, raw material & packed product trends, environmental testing and GMP / Hygiene findings.
• Recognise, report and investigate faults / problems to the appropriate person and within the appropriate timeliness.

People

• Respect your colleagues, peers and the Company.
• Promote site vision, management decisions and all site policies and procedures in a manner which meets Princes expectations.
• Effectively communicate on “one to one” and team basis, such that individual/ business developments and requirements are clearly understood.
• Identify and report to the QA Manager any training or development needs required by their team.
• Effectively listens to ideas or problems from their team members and feedback on issues / ideas where possible.
• Leads by example.
• Support the company values
• Ensure that the Princes Code of Conduct is adhered to at all times.
• Perform any other duties required by the QA Manager

These are the key daily tasks, not a comprehensive list of all tasks undertaken by the job holder. Flexibility is required by the business & this will be agreed with the individual’s line manager

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

• A current/previous hygiene background ideally from working for a Manufacturer. It would be advantageous to have FMCG experience.
• Ideally experience with CIP (Clean-In-Place) managing automated cleaning within a Manufacturing facility.
• A Technical understanding of HACCP would be desirable
• An understanding of Micro would is preferred given the nature of the role.
• To maintain product Food Safety, Legality, Integrity, Authenticity and Quality standards by ensuring all associated policies and procedures are adhered to.

Benefits:

• 25 Days Annual Leave plus Birthday off
• 14.5% Pension – 5% employee opt in / 9.5% employer
• Flexible Holiday Option – Buy 5 Additional Days
• Enhanced Family Friendly & Carers Policies
• Critical Illness Cover
• Learning & Development Opportunities
• Potential Corporate Incentive Scheme (company performance based)

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