Technical QA Assistant

  • Birtwistles Food Group
  • Irlam, Manchester
  • Nov 26, 2025
Full time Hospitality & Tourism

Job Description

Are you an experienced Technical QA Assistant looking for a new challenge?


About the Role

We pride ourselves on being a people-focused business. Our goal is to support our team in achieving their career goals. We do this by providing a working environment that offers opportunity, support, scope, and pace of change.

Our culture is the foundation of our business and is reflect in our Mission, Vision, and Values statements.

The post-holder will be responsible for effectively contributing to the work of the technical department, ensuring that effective technical service to the site is maintained and developed.

The post holder will also be responsible for monitoring the factory quality & food safety systems and for determining that quality, safety, and legality are met at each stage of the process by liaising effectively with all relevant parties in a policing capacity.

The main responsibilities of the role are:

  • Maintaining the Food Safety System policies and procedures
  • HACCP Studies
  • Document Control
  • Coordination of internal audits and distributing the results and ensuring all corrective actions are completed
  • Collecting micro samples as per schedule
  • Traceability
  • Investigations into complaints
  • Daily auditing of CCPs
  • Daily label checks
  • Calibration
  • Auditing of processing records
  • GMP/Fabric audits
  • Temperature checks
  • Quality checks

The nature of the role requires a flexible approach to working hours.

Core working hours are:

Days: Monday to Friday 7.00am to 4.00pm and one Saturday morning in four.

We would welcome applications for this Technical QA Assistant role with the following skills: Quality Assurance, Technical, Microbiology, Food Science, Food Technology, Compliance, Health & Safety, Food Safety, HACCP, Communication, IT Literate, Quality Standards, Organoleptic Techniques, Audit.

Benefits
  • Staff sales
  • 20 days holiday plus bank holidays
  • Birthday vouchers
  • Employee of the month bonus
  • Free health checks

Benefits
  • Staff sales
  • 20 days holiday plus bank holidays
  • Free car parking
  • Birthday voucher

Requirements

For this Technical QA Assistant role, it is essential you have a minimum of two years in a technical role with a minimum of one year meat industry and BRC experience.