Quality Auditor

**About the Role**:
Do you want to earn a minimum of **£14.40 **per hour? We’re looking for a **Quality Auditor **to join our team at our site in **Brackley, Northamptonshire**

**The benefits of working for Avara Foods**:

- **£ 14.40 **per hour plus shift allowance of **£2.00** for any hours worked between 18:00 and 06:00
- Paid Weekly
- Overtime available
- Earn a minimum of **£590.4 **per week
- Earn **£500 **for every friend or family member you refer for a job with us*
- Training and development from day one
- Secure contract, guaranteed hours and opportunities for overtime
- Free Tea and Coffee
- Free on-site parking
- Subsidised staff canteen
- Subsidised local transport to and from site, with several stops
- Discounted staff shop
- T’s & C’s apply

**Working Hours**

Monday to Friday, rotating shifts

Early
- 05.30-14.45

Mid - 06.45 - 16.00

Lates - 08.45 - 18.00

**About the role**:
As a **Quality Auditor **you’ll be working in a fast-paced, dynamic FMCG factory environment which is noisy and refrigerated in some areas, manufacturing short shelf-life products where hygiene standards are critical
- To understand and adhere to food safety/quality and health & safety standards, policies and procedures, ensuring the safe, ethical and legal production of food
- To provide technical support to production to ensure the product is consistently produced to the agreed quality standard and specification
- Integral to the packing, despatch and stores teams operating effectively and appropriately by effectively plublicising and auditing food safety/quality/legal requirements
- Ability to challenge non conformance
- To monitor, challenge assumption and to continually develop the function ensuring good custom and practice in food safety, quality, legality, GMP, hygiene and maintenance
- To help problem solve to root cause when product or processes deviate from the agreed standard
- Assist in the training and assessment all those involved in critical food safety, quality, legal and hygiene processes/checks
- Ensure information is treated as confidential
- Play a key role in audits by customers and external bodies
- Once fully trained, complete internal audits as part of the schedule
- Carry out effective product and hygiene tests, recording data and ensuring corrective action is taken
- Carry out assessments of product quality
- Participate in improvements to processes and be motivated in implementing new products and initiatives
- Once established, support with role of Primary Quality Auditor and Quality Systems Administrator when required
- Ensure all paperwork is completed fully, legibly and accurately to ensure due diligence

**What you’ll need to be successful**:

- A good level of English and basic numeracy skills
- Good teamwork and communication skills
- Attention to detail and a flexible attitude to tasks
- Intermediate Food Safety Qualification
- Intermediate HACCP Qualification
- Allergen Awareness Training
- Basic Health and Safety Training
- Experience within a production/manufacturing environment is desirable but not essential as full training will be provided

**Who are we, and what do we do?**

You may not have heard of us, but there’s a good chance you’ve enjoyed our products. Avara Foods is one of the UK’s leading food businesses, supplying chicken and turkey to the country’s major supermarkets and well-known restaurants.

We own and manage our entire supply chain, from farms to factory and all the way to the customer door - meaning we have careers that cover a whole range of functions. We have major processing sites across England and Wales, and an agricultural network of over 350 farms, spanning from North Yorkshire to the South Coast and Wales.

**A little about our Brackley site**:
Our advanced manufacturing site in Brackley, is one of our main processing facilities, processing up to 1.2 million birds per week. There are over 700 talented people employed at our Brackley site, helping us to deliver high quality products to our customers and making the business a trusted leader in fresh foods.

**Due to Bird Welfare, it is essential that you do not own any Avian Pets or Poultry.**

We are committed to being an equal opportunities employer.

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