Kepak St. Merryn Job Opportunity

Kepak is a global food company serving international retailers and food service household names with prime cuts of meat, on-trend food concepts, and ready-for-market convenience foods. Kepak St. Merryn in Merthyr Tydfil has combined beef and lamb processing and packing facilities. We offer beef and lamb products ranging from retail ready cuts for butchers’ counters to branded packaged meat, all as part of our service; raised on open pastures, sourced from local farmers, and hand-selected by our master butchers, we produce beef and lamb products with integrity and unmatched quality assurance.

We are currently recruiting for a Quality Assurance Operative to work in our busy meat manufacturer site in Merthyr Tydfil.

This is a full-time, permanent position working from 9.00am on a Monday to Friday shift pattern.

Job Role

To provide a vital support service to the assigned production area by ensuring all customer, legislative, and industry-required checks are completed to schedule and documented accordingly. Play a key role in the control, monitoring, and verification activities required by the site’s H.A.C.C.P and food safety management systems.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and verify livestock and product to ensure compliance to relevant legislative and customer specifications through daily check lists, such as: temperature, contamination, labels, weight, packaging, etc.
• Carry out inspections of all incoming raw materials, packaging, ingredients, and consumables in accordance with site specifications and intake procedures.
• Verify supplied documentation, certificates of conformity, delivery paperwork, and traceability records for incoming materials.
• Assess incoming and outgoing materials on hold and escalate issues through the site’s non-conformance process.
• Maintain accurate intake records and ensure traceability is preserved through the receipt, storage, and use of all raw materials.
• Liaise with various stakeholders to resolve intake-related quality issues.
• Support investigations relating to supplier complaints, foreign body incidents, specification failures, and traceability concerns.
• Participate in supplier approval verification activities and intake-related internal and external audits.
• Monitor compliance with customer, legal, BRCGS, and site requirements relating to raw material acceptance and control.
• Monitor and verify that all product due to leave the site is within the legislative and customer specifications, and within the limits and defined criteria set out in the relevant specifications, such as: contamination, temperature, labels, weight, packaging, etc.
• Ensure all product labels are accurate, to the required standard, and of high print quality.
• Complete all monitoring and/or verification practices in line with the H.A.C.C.P plan.
• Take samples using the Trace Soft monitoring system, complete accurate testing, and recording of relevant carcasses/primals in line with sampling schedule, including pH testing in line with customer-specific testing regimes and DNA testing for external laboratory analysis.
• Complete accurate daily calibration checks on required equipment/machinery, including scales, before, during, and after production.
• Undertake assigned internal audits in accordance with the audit schedule and associated scope of work, communicating effectively with across production teams on audit plan, conformances, improvement suggestions, and any non-conformances.
• Participate as required in external audits.
• Maintain accurate and legible documented records.
• Any other duties as requested by management and within the competency of the post holder.