QA Auditor

QA Auditor Days
We're proud to be Bakkavor

Full time, permanent role.

Salary - £28,528 

Days - 3s & 2s, 6am – 6pm (12 hours).

Based near Boston (Old Leake) PE22 9PN

Highly competitive reward package including life insurance, staff shop, MyBargains discount platform and more.

Why join us?
We’re proud to offer you a career with a global leader in the fresh prepared food industry. We’re proud to give everyone the opportunity and support to develop and progress their career. To nurture talent, fuel ambition and work with resilience and purpose to achieve the highest possible standards.

What we do.
A fantastic opportunity for a Quality Auditor has arisen at our manufacturing site based in Old Leake, Boston. The site employs over 700 people and specialises in making chilled Italian ready meals and pasta salads products for a dedicated customer.

About the role.
To audit, monitor, improve and evaluate quality systems and procedures and provide technical support for the operational teams while maintaining and promoting technical and quality standards in line with business needs and customer requirements with guidance from QA Supervisor / Manager.

Compliance tasks:

• Critical Control Points annual validations
• Allergen validations
• Packaging intake verification
• Conducting internal audits

Quality Auditors tasks:

• Monitoring environmental and hygiene practises, including post clean line sign-off, collection of swabs & water samples
• Quality checks and then collection of finished product and raw materials for microbiological & nutritional testing
• Conducting various daily audits (including GMP, Glass & Plastics audits, and ensuring corrective action with the shift manager
• Conducting internal quality assessment panels (QAS) throughout the shift & raising issues with the senior key-op/ shift manager
• Calibration & Verification of factory equipment
• Raising & completion of factory non conformances
• Dealing with shift issues & completion of QA shift report
• Complaint & Olympus mismatches Investigations

About you.

Ideally you will have some professional experience within a similar Technical/QA role in a food environment, but skills can be taught and if you have the enthusiasm and drive to develop within quality assurance this is an excellent first role.

Understanding the chain of custody within the food environment and a background of working on small to mid-sized quality improvement projects, such as implementing new procedures and defining new supporting documentation - will be key.

You will be an excellent communicator who can work alone with a proactive and innovative approach to problem solving.

What you’ll receive.
As an equal opportunity employer, we’re committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.

You’ll enjoy:

• Life Assurance (1 x salary)
• Private medical insurance (after 5 years’ service)
• Staff Shop
• Stakeholder Pension Scheme
• Discount & cashback platform
• Personal Accident Insurance
• Free health check
• Employee Assistance Programme
• A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans)
• Salary sacrifice car lease scheme
• Free independent mortgage advice
• Discounted tutoring for children
• Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary
• Free car parking 

Proud to be Bakkavor.
We’re proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We’re proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose. We’re driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business – come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!

Find out more and apply.

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