Location
Crewe, Cheshire | United Kingdom
Job description
We are the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, and our presence in the US and China positions the Group well in these high-growth markets. We leverage our consumer insight and scale to provide innovative food that offers quality, choice, convenience, and freshness. Around 18,500 colleagues operate from 44 sites across our three markets supplying a portfolio of over 2,900 products across meals, pizza & bread, salads and desserts to leading grocery retailers in the UK and US, and international food brands in China.
Quality Auditor – Cheshire sites
We're proud to be Bakkavor
- Permanent
- £26,433 per annum
- Multi-site - Crewe and Aston
- 4 on 4 off Days and Nights 06:00-18:00/18:00-06:00
- Highly competitive reward package including life insurance, staff shop, MyBargains discount platform
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.
Our Bakkavor Bread sites based in Cheshire make specialty hand-crafted flatbreads, baguettes, doughballs and ciabattas for customers including Tesco, Asda, Morrisons, Sainsburys, Waitrose and our own Pizza Express brand.
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.
- Flexible approach to working pattern as night shift cover will be required
- Driving license is essential due to multi-site role
- Assertive, strong & confident personality, working well with a multi-disciplinary team
- Pro-active, hands-on & positive approach
- Good literacy and numerical skills
- Attention to details and a methodical approach
- Food industry background, with experience in food quality & safety monitoring
- Good knowledge of Microsoft Word & Excel
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:
- A stakeholder pension scheme
- Personal accident Insurance
- Free independent mortgage advice
- Employee assistance programme
- A range of voluntary benefits
- Holiday purchase scheme
- Additional life assurance
- Dental & hospital cash plans
- Discounted tutoring for children
- Access to financial learning tools
- Affordable loans via your salary
- Proud to be and loyal service awards
- Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions
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!
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