QA Auditor

**Quality Assurance Auditor**

**Proud to drive innovation and quality**

Salary: Competitive depending upon experience

Shift: Nights, 4 on 4 off.

Shift Time: 18:00 - 06:00

Benefits: Including Life Assurance (1 x salary), Staff Shop with hot food available, Stakeholder Pension Scheme, MyBargains Discount Platform, 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), free car parking and more.

We’re proud to offer you a career with possibilities. To encourage you to work hard, aim high and bring your best to work, every day. To know that as a valued **QA Auditor**. We will support your ambition, reward your resilience and encourage you to create a career you can be proud of too.

In return for your hard work and commitment, we’ll give you the development and support to take your career as far as you can, or as far as you want to go, within our large multinational company.

Bakkavor Bourne, Lincolnshire specialises in making prepared fruit, dressed salads and stir fry mixes. It employs over 1,100 people and forms part of the Bakkavor Meals sector in the UK.

**The role**:
Working as part of a wider Technical, you will play a key role in ensuring that Bourne continues to meet all quality and technical standards set nationally and by our grocery retailer partners.

As one of our QA Auditors, you will audit, monitor, improve and evaluate quality systems and procedures and provide technical support for the operational teams as well as maintaining and promoting technical and quality standards in line with business needs and customer requirements will be a key focus.

In this position you will work on a permanent day shift which will include some weekend working as set by the rota.

**Day to day duties will be**:

- To audit compliance against Quality Management Systems, GMP and HACCP controls, raising all non-conformances against relevant standards with objective evidence.
- Effectively communicating to enable the operational teams to take the appropriate and necessary corrective action - then following up and monitoring completion of actions.
- Suggesting areas of improvement, relating to fabrication and procedures.
- Understanding the site traceability system to complete audits to demonstrate compliance and retrieve information for investigation purposes.
- To take samples (micro, nutritional, swab and organoleptic) against specific schedules and communicate the progress in a timely manner.
- Prepare and facilitate taste panels in accordance with procedure - ensuring that all results are accurately recorded and communicated to site.
- Calibration of measurement equipment in accordance with schedules and procedures.
- To assist the QA Manager in carrying out full investigations on specifications (micro and nutritional), complaints and incidents. Investigations may take the form of sampling, process reviews, traceability, or audits.
- To support NPD trials and product launches, assisting in micro testing and product life assessment to ensure products are manufactured to the correct standard as necessary.
- Providing technical support and advice to the factory team in the event of customer visit or audit.
- Coordination of day-to-day activities to deliver improvement of Technical KPIs
- To operate in a safe working manner and support the site/business on continuous improvement relating to health, safety, and the environment

**About you**:
**Proud to be Bakkavor**

We’re proud to be the leading UK provider of innovative, high-quality, fresh prepared food. We’re proud to be driven by the hard work and passion of our people. And we’re proud to offer a wide range of careers full of support and opportunity. Join our team and we’ll make you proud too.

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