Quality Auditor

Job Description:

Day shift 6am to 6pm 

or Night shift 6pm - 6am

Job Purpose:

To verify that raw material preparation, manufacturing production and product storage/distribution is compliant with food safety, legal and customers’ quality standards.

Duties and responsibilities

• Sample, test, audit and monitor to verify that all processes, procedures, and products are being manufactured in a safe and compliant manner and that site is audit ready.
• Conduct various audit types such as, CCP compliance, Internal audits, Traceability exercises, Codes of Practice audits, Line audits, Hygiene and Fabrication audits, ensuring that they are detailed and any actions arising from them are communicated, followed up and closed out with the relevant owner.
• Support the production team on resolving product food safety and or quality issues, determine and action product to be put “on hold”. Facilitate investigations into specific incidents i.e. foreign body contamination, quality rejections under the guidance of the QA Manager.
• Investigate customer complaints to provide data which informs resolution.
• Conduct verification checks to ensure equipment is suitably calibrated to comply with required standards.
• Host organoleptic panel to ensure consistent quality.
• Complete all necessary documentation ensuring that it is kept accurate and ready for internal and external audits and highlighting when non-conformance requires corrective action.
• Maintain ongoing communications with the operations team and other relevant functions ensuring they are fully aware of quality assurance activities, results and trends.
• Collect all relevant samples, with adherence to procedures and protocols, to ensure quality, safety and legality of products sampled.
• Provide education and training to operational colleagues and other teams to ensure compliance with all relevant technical standards.

Skills and experience

• · Able to work with basic computer programmes such as Microsoft Office applications
• · CCP training including HACCP principles for Manufacturing Unit
• · Experience and understanding of internal audit processes
• · Has an understanding of allergen awareness and the associated risk
• · Has a knowledge of GMP techniques
• · Understands non-conformance reporting techniques
• · Microbiological awareness – understanding of basic of food safety
• · Has and understanding of basic disinfection principles, basic legal labelling practice and basic weight legislation

Sponsorship is not available