Quality Auditor

**Quality Auditor - Cheshire sites**
- **Permanent**:

- **£26,432 per annum**:

- **4 on 4 off **Days and Nights 06:00-18:00/18:00-06:00**:

- **Highly competitive reward package including Group Pension**:

- **Excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group**

**The role**

We have two new roles available for driven and motivated Quality Auditors to join our technical team in Cheshire. These roles report into the Systems Technologist and involve working across two Bread manufacturing sites - Crewe and Aston with the occasional visit to the Distribution Centre in Crewe.

**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

**Key attributes**
- Flexible approach to working pattern, occasional overtime required to cover shift
- 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

**About us**

We're the biggest name you've never heard of. You've probably eaten our food
- you just didn't realise it. Because as global leaders in the fresh prepared food industry with over 19,000 employees, we create innovative products, including meals, soups, dips, salads, desserts, pizzas and bread for customers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose in the UK. Our customers include Harris Teeter and Home Chef in the US, and in China, we make food for Starbucks, Yum and Pret. We're ambitious. We're full of ideas. And we're ready for more people who share our passion for quality to join us.

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