Quality Auditor

**Quality Auditor**:
**Location: LEES OF SCOTLAND, COATBRIDGE ML5 4EF**
**Shift: Monday Friday 8AM - 5PM**
**Salary:£11.82 per hour**:
You may know us from our Snowballs, teacakes or meringues, as we’ve been manufacturing confectionery and meringues since 1931 to major retailers across the UK. We employee 250 people at our modern 80,000 square ft factory which is located just outside of Glasgow and is easily accessible by public transport. We’ve joined one of the UK’s leading specialty bakery manufacturer Finsbury Food Group earlier this year who make the bread for your morning toast, the buns, muffins and other treats that turn teatime into quality time and retailer own brands cakes, tray bakes through to party cakes like Caterpillar cakes. This is what we do, and why we’re in business. Baking brilliance makes every day special.

We have an exciting opportunity to join the Technical team as Quality Auditor at our Lees of Scotland site as part of ‘Finsbury Food Group’. This is a fantastic opportunity to gain experience with one of the UK’s largest bakery businesses, along with great opportunities for growth and development. At Finsbury Food Group, we are passionate about investing in our teams, creating great development opportunities.

Are you passionate about driving continuous improvement and leading a successful team? Do you have extensive experience in a food production environment? If this sounds like you then keep reading

**This is what you’ll actually do**:
In this fast moving, busy and varied role, you will be a vital part of the Technical team reporting to the Quality First line manager and responsible for monitoring the quality of product on line while ensuring all process controls are met and recorded on the appropriate paperwork meeting customer and legislative requirements. You will be responsible for highlighting any issues as soon as they are discovered allowing corrective actions to take place, assisting the production staff by ensuring that all process sheets have the correct information and are legible. You will conduct audits of process and HACCP as required.

You will be responsible for conducting visual and measurement tests on product as required, auditing processes against RAG and QAS to ensure compliance. You will strive to improve quality and process to ensure customer requirements are met. You will conduct audits of hygiene, fabrication, glass and hard plastics etc as per schedules.

In the role you will be responsible for quarantining and isolating any materials which fail food safety or quality standards. You will assist in the investigation of any technical issues and generate appropriate documentation to support the manufacturing team. You will take ownership of the calibration and maintenance of Technical equipment e.g. probes, scales etc as required.

Communication is key within the role and you will be responsible for communicating any issues with calibration to the Technical Manager and report any issues which may affect product safety, quality and/or legality. You will work closely with the Technical team to resolve any issues as required.

**Ideally this is you**:

- Awareness and experience of BRC, HACCP and food hygiene
- Experience of Computer based systems such as Microsoft Word and Excel
- The ability to work within a multi-function team or individually as required
- General health and safety awareness
- Excellent communication skills
- Able to work on own initiative
- Able to work under pressure
- Attention to detail
- Team player

**What’s in it for you**:

- Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave to allow quality time with your new arrival
- Enhanced Pension Scheme for our employees
- Death in Service Benefit
- Free Employee Assistance Programme (open to colleagues and their families)
- Retail discounts accessible via our Benefits Hub platform
- Company shop available at sites (heavily discounted, yummy products)
- Refer a Friend Scheme (up to £200 per referral - T&C’s dependent)
- Employee Recognition Awards
- Extensive Learning & Development opportunities (including opportunities for sponsored professional memberships and our own in-house development course)
- An opportunity to be part of a fantastic, growing organisation. Head over to our LinkedIn page to find out more

Our vision is to be the leading speciality bakery group in the UK, and we want the best people in place to achieve this. Our continued success is built entirely on the talented people who work here, so employee development is important to us because everyone is a valued member of the team, and we want every individual to have the skills and capabilities to achieve both your own personal goals and our business goals.