Quality Auditor

Your main accountabilities will be to:

• Work alongside Production Operatives to ensure quality is a pivotal part of daily tasks including sharing your expertise to improve their understanding of food safety and quality.
• Monitor and educate production team members on the importance of technical paperwork and its correct completion.
• Address and/ or escalate quality or food safety concerns immediately to the appropriate level.
• Audit production processes to ensure packed product is always to the correct standard, thereby reducing waste and factory downtime.
• Support the quality auditing process for both internal and external audits.
• Work with the intake and process teams to ensure raw material meets the expected standards.
• Audit and guide Production Team members to maintain high GMP Standards.
• Audit against company and customer standards across the board.
• Ensure food safety is always maintained.
• Attend relevant POD meetings.
• Area Lead for EDAR
• Responsibility ensuring panel data is effectively communicated out to the business and ensuring corrective actions are being provided back in a timely manner
• Complete weekly EDAR audit and any other scheduled internal audit
• Make recommendations to the Technical Management to improve QA systems as appropriate
• Attend and contribute to team meetings and taste panels
• Lead Production and Engineers with Incident controls
• Complete fabrication audits as scheduled
• Provide absence cover for Quality Team Leader as appropriate.

Activities and Resources

o   Follow relevant SOP’s and ensure relevant QP’s/ CCP’s are adhered to.

o   Ensure all company issued sampling and investigation testing regimes are carried out in a timely manner.

o   Report immediately to appropriate manager on incidents and situations potentially hazardous to health and safety of personnel and equipment that comes to your notice.

o   Perform internal audit as directed.

Requirements

• Experience in quality assurance/quality control/ food safety/ environmental standards/ organics.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office.
• Working experience within a similar role and/or a food environment.
• Awareness of the importance of food safety.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

• Competitive Salary
• NEST Pension Scheme
• Annual Leave – 24.8 days
• Long service awards
• Employee Wellness Programmes
• Life Assurance
• Ride to Work Scheme