Quality Coordinator

Allied Bakeries make the top bread brands Kingsmill, Allinson’s and Sunblest. Across our bakeries we make white, wholemeal and seeded market-leading loaves, as well as Kingsmill 50/50, the nation’s favourite Healthier White, delicious pancakes, crumpets, hot cross buns and more.

We take massive pride in our brands and all that we do, including our bakeries having one of the best safety performance records in the industry. We know that the success of our business depends on us having the right people on the team, so if you’re looking to join a business that values its people, encourages everyone to get involved and be the best they can be, we’d love to hear from you.

**Overview of role**:
**Location: Liverpool Hotplate**
- Here at the Hotplate, home of the Kingsmill Crumpet and Pancake, the Quality Coordinator is responsible for promoting, monitoring and driving continuous improvements in Quality, Food Safety and due diligence standards across the site.- The Quality Coordinator must be committed to ensuring that the Bakery’s team are compliant with BRCGS standards of food safety and are audit ready at all times. Working with the wider team to ensure all products are manufactured to industry standards is important to you, as without these standards being met, we aren’t able to fulfil customer’s orders.- As our next Quality Coordinator, you’ll be carrying out internal audits, raising and investigating food safety and quality non-conformances. Identifying and implementing corrective and preventative actions, as well as completing and presenting KPIs.- Working Hours: Monday - Friday 7:30am - 4pm**Key Accountabilities**:

- Positively engage with the Safety-First culture, ensuring compliance with internal policies and procedures in respect of Health and Safety, Food Safety and Quality.
- Coordinate product assessments, promoting corrective actions to remedy any faults found.
- Monitor process parameters.
- Assist with the investigation of complaints and food safety incidents.
- Review process documentation and implement improvement initiatives to drive paperwork standards.
- Write procedures/briefs and ensure documentation is updated to meet the required standards.
- Departmental support with NPD and EPD.
- Coordinate the collation of product samples and distribute accordingly.
- Conduct employee hand swabbing and analyse the results collected from Mould Free Shelf-Life samples.
- Carry out Internal, GMP, Process Systems, Fabrication, Hygiene, Glass and Canteen audits ensuring that results and corrective actions are cascaded to the relevant departments, tracked and closed out in a timely manner.
- Support with traceability/recall exercises.
- Departmental support during external audits and non-conformance closed out process.

**The Right Person**:

- A food manufacturing background is essential, ideally with experience of the Technical function.
- Understanding of the importance of food safety.
- Preferably educated to degree level or equivalent.
- Ability to analyse data, trend it and effectively communicate findings to the management.
- Competent user of Microsoft Office.
- Ability to multi-task and prioritise workload.
- The ability to build effective working relationships with the wider site team.
- A positive and enthusiastic approach to work life, with the ability to maintain focus and drive tasks through to completion.

Our defining value is to ‘
_Be the best we can be’; _the behaviors that we believe help us to do this and are key to our success are:
_Aim high, I do what I say, Work Together_ and
_Everybody Matters_.

**We are committed to equal treatment and opportunities for all our people and believe in building a diverse and inclusive organisation that represents our communities and generates the best outcomes for consumers, customers and stakeholders.