Quality Auditor

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: Stockport**

There is currently a fantastic opportunity to join our team. As a key member of the site technical team you will be responsible for facilitating and supporting the site food safety, legality, quality and due diligence agenda. The working pattern is Monday to Friday, 42 hours per week. A degree of flexibility is required on occasion to meet our customer needs.

**Key Accountabilities**:
We protect the consumers from harm by implementing, monitoring and challenging standards of food safety enabling and supporting our site teams to produce safe wholesome products.

We protect our business by being legally compliant, providing due diligence records which protect our business and our brand reputation from bad publicity, fines and penalties. We support our site teams in maintaining our approved supplier status by working to customer standards ensuring products are made to spec in a food safe environment, whilst maintaining costs without compromising quality or food safety.

Key duties will include:

- Maintenance of the traceability, food safety and quality records and booklets.
- Data capture and trending of KPIs including quality results.
- Monitoring of quality via offline QAS assessments and trending of assessment data, including communication of trends to operatives via notice boards.
- Food safety & quality systems auditing.
- Organise daily QAS panels including the collation/processing of the associated product performance data.
- Verification of measuring instruments across all plants i.e. metal detectors, check weighers, standalone weighing scales, temperature probes, weights, etc.
- Completion of shelf life evaluation.
- Preparation and verification of production paperwork.
- Completion of glass/perspex audits across the site.
- Sampling & assessing agar plates and dip slides.
- Compilation of food safety and quality compliance stats, including distribution to manufacturing teams.
- Verification of colleague personal hygiene standards via hand swabs.
- Sampling and packaging of products in accordance with central (ATC) requirements.
- Verification of product packaging against library standards (Dragonfly)

**The Right Person**:

- Minimum 12 months experience in a food manufacturing setting.
- Good IT skills using the Microsoft suite
- Ability to communicate at all levels effectively
- L1 food hygiene qualification
- Have a systematic, thorough and disciplined approach to routine tasks
- Highly motivated, determined and enthusiastic team player
- Attention to detail and a thorough approach, even when operating under pressure.

Our defining value is to ‘Be The Best We Can Be’. The behaviours we believe help us do this and are key to our success are: Aim High, I Do What I Say, Work Together and Everybody Matters.
- 'We strive to ensure that all employee's receive the resources they need to succeed_, to build a diverse and inclusive organisation that represents our communities and generates the best outcomes for consumers, customers and stakeholders’._