Quality Auditor

**About The Role**:
**Join the Samworth Brothers Team and become part of our dynamic family**

At Samworth Brothers, we genuinely care about our colleagues and strive to create an engaging environment that values your unique contributions. We are committed to your success and offer a range of exceptional benefits that we believe supports your life and personal aspirations:
- Enhanced pension scheme
- Private health scheme
- Employee discount scheme
- Experience annual pay reviews
- Profit related pay
- Unlock your potential through training and growth opportunities

**The Opportunity**

In this role you will:

- Vigorously maintain compliance with all Company codes of practice, escalating any issues to area managers or departmental management.
- Ensure all work in progress raw materials and end products adhere to specification and to quarantine those that do not comply.
- Collect samples and take swabs for laboratory testing in order to ensure product safety and maintain customer confidence, in accordance with departmental schedules. Arrange taste panels appropriate to the number of unique products made in order to measure conformance to specification and positive release. Log all findings, both positive and negative. Act upon negative results and escalate to manager. Perform allergen validation swabbing to defined protocol.
- Audit HACCP and traceability records to ensure compliance against standard and defend due diligence. Train any updates or changes to CCP procedure and policy to all relevant bakery employees.
- Check and calibrate all listed relevant equipment to ensure equipment is fit for purpose and legal compliance of product is met. Participation in completion of tasks needed to ensure company due diligence through the monthly QA Audit books.
- Be proactive and able to work on own initiative
- Be self-motivated and committed to continuous improvement
- Have knowledge of HACCP and Food safety
- Be computer literate
- Be passionate about quality, have exceptional attention to detail

We also want you to thrive in an engaging and inclusive work culture where you will have the opportunity to take on personal accountability and take pride in your work. We encourage positive communication, and the building of strong collaborative relationships is essential to every role.

Join us at Samworth Brothers, where you'll be more than just a team member - you'll be an integral part of our thriving family.

**About Us**: The Cornwall Bakery is the home of the famous Ginsters Cornish Pasty as well as a range of other high quality savoury pastry products. We are a large employer in the South West as well as being part of a national company that is still a family owned business, Samworth Brothers. We take pride in our family feel within our businesses and work together to make things happen. We can offer you the stability of a wider group as well as the opportunities that that offers if you wish to progress your career with us. We are family and we would like to invite you to be part of that and support our teams in delivering great products to all of our customers.

**_Samworth Brothers do not engage with unlicensed gangmasters or third parties. Samworth Brothers will NEVER ask you for money in order to provide you with employment. If you are in any doubt, please contact an official Samworth Brothers representative._