Food Safety & Quality Graduate

Experience is the best teacher, which is why at Dawn Meats we like to give you real responsibility from the start. Combined with formal training you will work with passionate, talented people who will provide invaluable training on the job plus:

• Dedicated mentors;
• First class coaching;
• Direct access to senior leaders;
• Opportunities to undertake assignments, secondments and innovative project work across the business;
• Investment in blue chip residential offsite training.

With no pre-conceived ideas and no limit on your career path, your skills and experiences can be uniquely tailored to the multitude of career opportunities within Dawn Meats. We recognise the importance of continuous development and work closely with recognised Management Development Institutes in Ireland and the UK to develop our Graduates as managers of the future.

• →Having an awareness of food science and nutrition with a focus on best practice and from a legislative perspective - Food safety, hygiene and nutritional requirements
• →Assisting with quality operations, procedures and document control
• →Maintaining and updating the department files including SOPs, risk assessments, HACCP documents and quality management documents
• →Carrying out audits as per schedule
• →Evaluating the written SOP's being carried out
• →Maintaining and managing non-conformance logs
• →Logging complaints and communicating to the relevant personnel
• →Assisting with close out investigations into complaints including root cause analysis
• →Microbiological and chemical sampling of finished product and raw materials as per sampling schedule
• →Carrying out internal audits and assisting with external and customer audits

• A degree in a related discipline (Food Technology, Nutrition, Science)
• Proficient in Microsoft word/excel/outlook etc. Decisiveness and the ability to work well as part of a team
• Strong attention to detail
• Commercial awareness
• Excellent communication skills - Oral & written
• HACCP trained is an advantage

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