Lead X-Ray Screener

Lead X-Ray Screeners sought by a £multimillion pound food products manufacturer to join their team in Bilston.

AM shift: Monday to Friday 5.30am – 3pm.

The Role:
As Lead X-Ray Screener, you are responsible for ensuring the effective operation, performance, compliance, and continuous improvement of all x-ray inspection processes.

The role provides technical leadership, supports food safety objectives, drives operational standards, and acts as the primary point of contact for all x-ray-related activities within the production environment.

Your day to day duties will include:

• Take ownership of the day-to-day operation, monitoring, calibration, and validation of x-ray inspection systems to ensure optimal performance and food safety compliance.


• Act as the site expert for x-ray operations, providing guidance and support to production teams while ensuring correct product presentation and system settings.


• Monitor equipment performance, identify faults or trends, and coordinate with Engineering and external service providers to resolve issues quickly.


• Maintain accurate records, reports, and corrective actions using Redzone, analysing data to identify risks and drive continuous improvement.


• Lead investigations into equipment failures, contamination incidents, and process deviations, implementing effective corrective and preventive actions.


• Ensure all x-ray-related activities meet food safety, quality, and compliance standards, supporting audits and promoting best practice across the site.


• Communicate findings, quality concerns, and performance updates to relevant stakeholders, escalating issues where necessary.


• Exercise authority to stop production where food safety, x-ray controls, or operational standards are compromised.

• Experience with x-ray food safety inspection systems including operation, monitoring, calibration and validation


• Knowledge of industrial food scanning within the food manufacturing sector


• Working knowledge of food quality and safety standards


• Experience of working in conjunction with Quality department


• Ability to analyse trends in x-ray data to identify recurring issues and opportunities for improvement


• Experience of using Redzone food safety compliance software would be beneficial

• £13.44 per hour


• Overtime rate £16.80 (after 45 hours)


• Bank holiday rate £20.16


• 42 hours per week


• 28 days holiday


• Unpaid breaks: 2 x 30 minutes (morning and day shifts), 2 x 20 minutes (evening shift)


• Employee discount


• Free parking


• On-site parking


• Full training provided


• Company pension


• Discounted or free food

Bilston, West Midlands

£13.44 per hour + overtime + benefits

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