Job description
We are currently looking to recruit a Laboratory Technician to join our Manchester Dairy within our Muller Milk & Ingredients business.
The successful candidate will enable the Dairy with assuring quality performance through analysis, subject knowledge and testing performance whilst striving to continuously improve in line with the Müller values.
Your main duties and responsibilities will be:
- Carries out quality based testing such as chemical and microbial tests. These tests include freeze point depression, antibiotics and analysing cleaning chemical concentrations.
- Microbial tests include TVCs, enteros and carrying out environmental sampling. Investigation and route cause analysis are carried out occasionally
- Displays drive and motivation to continually improve quality based performance
- Demonstrates active involvement in solving problems / trouble shooting through data analysis and evaluation
- Plays an active part in building QMS capability across site
- Responsible for laboratory tasks and management systems (5S etc)
- Supports and process confirms operations quality control responsibilities
- Has a good understanding and plays an active part within the performance management system (PMS)
- Provides governance and ownership of Quality Index and other monthly reports
- Displays good team work ability
Muller Responsibilities:
- Health and safety commitment of self and others
- Works on active CI projects continuously
- Looks for “waste” in everything that we do
- Actively seeks out improvement opportunities within the workplace and converts to own CI projects
- Owns and delivers CI initiatives and is recognised for these
- Utilises opportunities to improve the way we do things
- Collaboratively works with other team members to improve our business
- Can demonstrate CI contribution through PDP process
Salary is up to £28,200 which is paid monthly.
Hours of work:
- 4 on 4 off 2 days (7am-7pm) 2 nights (7pm-7am)
To be successful in this role, you will need:
- Leading - Building relationships, growing capability and critically reflects.
- Entrepreneurial Agility – Operating with discipline, showing commerciality as well as embracing and enabling change.
- Strategic Thinking – Use technical knowledge to achieve results, encourage and facilitate sharing of best practice, think and act decisively.
Benefits
- Access an exclusive rewards platform including your Müller money, health and lifestyle benefits, Company pension, healthcare cash plan, dental insurance, home technology and cycle to work.
- Access the Müller Rewards discount scheme offering over 800 discounts online and in-store and the potential to make savings across grocery and clothes shopping, holidays, insurance, gifts and more
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: Up to £28,211.65 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Store discount
Schedule:
- 12 hour shift
- Day shift
- Night shift
- Weekend availability
Supplemental pay types:
- Bonus scheme
Shift availability:
- Day shift (required)
- Night shift (required)
- Overnight shift (required)
Work Location: In person
Reference ID: Lab