Quality Auditor Technologist

**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**

**Shift Pattern: Thursday to Monday**

In this role you will audit the production process against the latest legislation, agreed quality and safety standards and compliance with internal procedures. Also:

- Perform regular checks and audits on meat and non-meat ingredients (GMP, traceability, fabrication etc.) in order to monitor compliance with food safety requirements and prepare the necessary reports
- Calibrate scales, temperature probes and other measuring devices
- Collect micro samples, water samples and environmental swabs
- Monitor production lines to ensure product safety, quality and compliance with customer’s requirements
- Co-ordinate and take part in daily taste panels and logging results into excel spreadsheet.
- Audit production documentation and procedures in place for foreign body controls including glass & hard plastic audits- Experience from within a related quality / technical role within food manufacturing OR educated in a food related discipline
- Knowledge of food safety legislation, quality processes and HACCP highly advantageous
- High attention to detail, personable with excellent communication skills both verbal and written
- Please note this is site that produces meat based products in a cold environment
- Ability to work flexible hours including evenings and weekends
- Capable of working on own initiative with good organisational skills

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.

**About Us**: We are a fourth-generation family business producing high quality own-label products for many of the UK’s best-known retailers along with our own brands including Ginsters, Soreen, Higgidy, Dickinson & Morris and Walker & Son. We employ over 10,000 people in well-invested modern food manufacturing sites around the country.

At 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._