Quality Auditor

6 months ago

Maidstone, United Kingdom Grupo Bimbo UK Ltd Full time

**Location**:Aylesford, Maidstone

**Working Pattern**:Sunday to Thursday 9am - 5pm

**Reports To**: Quality Manager

Come join the World’s largest Bakery business that prides itself on producing tasty products to the highest standards of food safety and quality in a safe yet busy multi-cultural environment.

**Job Purpose**:To ensure the company meets customer and legislative food safety and quality requirement.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Managing corrective and preventative actions for non-conformances, carry out root cause analysis and ensure NCs are closed within the timescale and verify the effectiveness.
- Ensure that QMS documentation is audited for accurate completion, maintained, and controlled via the document control procedure.
- Ensure that all deviations from specification are reported, actioned, documented via the Non-conformance Procedure, or agreed via the Concession procedure.
- To complete and investigate customer complaints including preparation, the investigation, reporting the key actions and following up, including sending communication to the customer.
- Ensuring independent process and product checks are completed in each area according to the schedule and relevant actions taken if out of the limits or specification given.
- Complete and organize the taste panel and/or buyback sessions and that any out of specification results are followed up diligently.
- Ensure Shelf-life samples are collected accurately and tested at end of life for mold or organoleptic against the organoleptic schedule.
- Play active role in 3rd party and customer audits (present information to the auditor)
- Conducting traceability exercises (present information to the auditor) to internal and external auditors.
- To complete GMP audits including preparation, the audit, reporting the key actions and following up.
- Glass & Hard Plastic register verification including follow up.
- To complete CCP audits including preparation, the audit, reporting the key actions and following up.
- To complete Internal Audits including preparation, the audit, reporting the key actions and following up.
- An understanding of the Bakery HACCP system.
- To know all Critical Control Points and the associated process for checking them.
- To identify Food Safety risks i.e. foreign body, chemical or microbiological risks and to either take the appropriate corrective/preventative action or ensure it is reported accurately to the business.
- To train and verify the training of the CCP’s to relevant team members.
- To understand and implement the Allergen awareness, procedures and controls.
- To maintain and meet the analysis schedule for using the appropriate systems and sampling.
- To maintain and meet the current Nutritional schedule using the appropriate systems and sampling.
- To maintain and meet the current Allergen Testing schedule using the appropriate system.
- To ensure that all costs associated with the Laboratory testing are documented accurately.
- To identify key Bakery Pests on site, reporting the key actions and following up.
- To help drive the training through mentoring and being the quality and food safety expert on shift.
- Drive standards and actively provides coaching to promote the food safety/quality culture within the business.

**Skills and Qualifications**:

- Some quality assurance experience and/or relevant qualifications (food science, science, food safety).
- Some experience of FMCG environment preferred.
- The ability to organize and prioritize own workload
- Hands on approach to improvement technical knowledge throughout the general plant population.
- Methodical and logical approach to improvements, with a keen eye for detail.
- Proactive and flexible approach to work and training
- Good communication skills

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: Up to £32,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Canteen
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Day shift

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme

Ability to Commute:

- Maidstone (required)

Work Location: In person

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