Quality Technician

Full time, temporary contract (for 12 months) on PM shift: 1.30pm to 9.30pm, Monday to Friday. 40 hours per week.

£28,2551.21 per annum + shift allowance (rising to £28,803.85 per annum from 1st May 2025.)

The technical department can be described as the ‘Conscience of the Business’ with a core remit of keeping the business informed to ensure strong strategic and tactical decision, provide customer and supplier confidence in relation to food safety and quality standards and to safeguard the business by maintaining a strong due diligence defense.

This is achieved by providing assurance that legal, customer, supplier and business standards of food quality and safety are maintained, ensuring procedural compliance, understanding and effectiveness and driving remedial actions to resolve the root cause of any issues and prevent recurrence.

Additionally, the department has a responsibility to drive continuous improvement as an outcome of the core remit by setting standards and keeping abreast of developments that may impact the food industry.

The Quality Technician ensures the correct raw materials are received and quality checked to our high standards. 

This role is based at our Trowbridge manufacturing site with no option to work from home. Therefore, you will need to live in a reasonable commuting distance. 

apetito is the UK’s leading food supplier to the health and social care sectors serving more than 1,300 care homes, health care and education settings.

Our meals are expertly crafted by our dieticians and chefs, and then frozen to lock in the goodness.

Wiltshire Farm Foods, our sister company, is the UK’s largest ready meal supplier cooking and delivering over 330 different delicious frozen ready meals across the UK.

To confirm that our products are manufactured and dispatched in compliance with food safety and quality standards.

The Quality technician is accountable for:

• Completion of all administrative tasks in relation to Raw material/ Inbound release/traceability
• Equipment calibration of probes and scales
• Raw material Checks
• QFSA cover/ assistance as required
• Completion of tasks against company standards
• Raising issue to QFSA/Technical manager

Essential:

• Food safety/quality understanding to BSI and BRCGS levels
• Attention to detail
• Able to follow instructions and work to specifications
• Behaving in a manner that prevents risk of injury or illness to self or others
• Confident using SAP and other computer programs
• Organisational skills
• Proactive attitude
• Tenacious
• Willing to learn

Desirable:

• Experience of working in quality assurance in manufacturing 

• Competitive salary – accredited Living Wage employer
• 25 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays
• Option to purchase up to 5 additional days holiday per year
• Discretionary annual bonus scheme
• Pension scheme - employer matched contributions up to 4%
• Life assurance scheme worth at least 1x annual salary
• Subsidised canteen
• Free parking
• Free turkey or voucher at Christmas
• apetito perks scheme including salary sacrifice options and retail discounts

As a family-owned business, we take great pride in being a company that makes a real difference and is dedicated to creating outstanding meals to be proud of.

We develop a range of products designed to enhance health and well-being for all our customers.

We are driven by a passion for service and dedicated to feeding some of the UK’s most vulnerable people.

We proudly support British food and farming, focusing on using the best ethical and sustainable produce in alignment with our goal to reach Net Zero by 2040.

Our ethical standards are recognised by the ETI and we are an accredited Living Wage employer.
Learn more about apetito’s commitment to a more sustainable future.

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Our commitment to making a real difference extends to customers, communities, and staff and we're on a mission to build an inclusive workplace where everyone reaches their full potential.