Quality Assurance Lead

at  Butternut Box

THE WOOF-TASTIC STORY ABOUT US

At Butternut, our mission is to deliver health and happiness to dogs and their humans all over the world. In order to do just that, we need a hard-working team. And we need quite a big kitchen too. Which is precisely why we have built one. Rudie’s Kitchen is the place where we lovingly cook our Butternut meals using only the finest human-quality ingredients. Rudie’s is also where we package our meals and box them for our customers all over the UK and beyond. We are a close nit team, with that family feel, looking to welcome more like minded people to our lovely team and keep work life fun and enjoyable.
The way we see it, you wouldn’t serve food to dogs that you wouldn’t be happy to eat yourself. At Butternut, we believe dogs deserve better, and if that’s something you think too, we want to hear from you.
Are you up for the challenge?

‍ A BIT ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Quality Technician, you will report into the Technical Manager at Rudie’s Kitchen and will ensure that the specified company quality systems and processes are operated in a controlled and effective manner. Ensuring product quality is maintained from raw materials through to dispatched goods.
This role sits somewhere between your normal Quality Role and that of a Senior QA, you will have the freedom of a senior role without any of the line management responsibilities, because of this we are offering an attractive salary for the role of £38,834 per year.

AS PART OF THE ROLE, YOU WILL:

• Ensure a pro-active approach to process and system control/management through educating to the broader team
• Conduct product testing on incoming raw materials and finished goods
• Monitor and trend product quality, identifying improvements and working with other functions (Operations, Process, NPD Engineering and Raw Materials) to deliver them
• Ensure daily / weekly / monthly QA scheduled tasks (i.e. GMP, calibrations, audits and sampling) are completed on time and any subsequent actions are followed up
• Conduct investigations into non-conformance (i.e. incidents, analytical testing, audits and customer complaints) and agree corrective actions and measure the effectiveness.
• Attend process trials
• Ensure new products processes and equipment are smoothly integrated into everyday operation and is fully supported by the Quality Management system (i.e. agreed quality parameters, updates schedules & QAT tasks, Quality Management System SOPs)