Raw Materials QA

**Raw Materials Quality Auditor - Dayshift**

**Salary**: £25,732 per annum

**Location**: Bo'ness, West Lothian

**Contract Type**: Permanent

**Shift**: Tuesday - Saturday, 06.30 - 14.30

**Benefits**:
Company Pension

Life Insurance

Personal Accident Cover

Voluntary Benefits Package

**Who are Bakkavor**:
Bakkavor is one of the leading providers of fresh prepared food in the UK, with an international presence in the US and China. Our 19,000 employees operate from 39 locations, developing and producing innovative food for a wide variety of occasions and budgets. In the UK, we work with leading grocery retailers, focusing on their own label brands.

Our Bakkavor business in Bo’ness, based near Falkirk, specialises in the production of fresh, high quality salad products working primarily with premium retailers.

To give you a sense for the scale of manufacturing in Bo’ness we produce over 70million salad based meals and side dishes from our 2 manufacturing facilities employing over 1200 people in the town.

**The Role**
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a driven and motivated Raw Materials Quality Auditor to join our food manufacturing technical team - to be accountable for ensuring industry leading high standards of product safety, quality & legality.

**Job Responsibilities and Duties**:

- Assessing all incoming deliveries against a pre-determined raw material specification.
- Maintaining accurate records of all raw materials (including packaging) entering the site
- Collecting samples for microbiological, nutritional, quality and chemical sampling against a pre-determined schedule and report progress in a timely manner
- With guidance from Line Manager, coordinating day to day activities to deliver improvement of Technical KPIs
- Participating in Technical audits including customer and Group Technical, ensuring all relevant raw material information is available and completed in the required timescale
- Auditing compliance against Quality Management Systems, GMP and HACCP controls - raising all non-conformances against relevant standards with objective evidence, effectively communicated to enable the operational teams to take the appropriate and necessary corrective action & to follow up and monitor completion of actions
- Developing relationships with suppliers by ensuring all non-conformances are communicated in a timely manner. Monitoring whether responses have been received and review the action plans to ensure root cause has been considered.
- Ensuring that all customer complaints in relation to raw materials are investigated satisfactorily and corrective actions are agreed and documented. Investigation findings will be reported to the site Quality/Systems Manager.
- Logging non-conformances associated with raw materials identified through intake checks, factory issues and/or customer complaints in order that supplier performance can be monitored and trended.
- Operating in a safe working manner and support the site/business on continuous improvement relating to health, safety and the environment

**About you**

You will be a driven and highly motivated with the willingness to learn.

Great attention to detail is needed in this role as you will be required to fill documentation out which must be correct.

You will be an excellent communicator who has the ability to liaise with other areas of the business when required and who can work alone with a proactive and innovative approach to problem solving.

You will have strong computer skills to be successful in this role.

You will always adopt a thorough and diligent approach to every task and you will be able to demonstrate our key values - Respect & Trust each other, be proud of what we do, keep the customer at the heart of what we do, get it right keep it right.

**What you can expect from us**

When joining us you can expect a competitive salary, a strong benefits package and excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group, which include excellent training and opportunities to develop and progress within.

Please click ‘APPLY NOW’ to be considered for this fantastic opening.