Quality Auditor

**Shift Pattern**: Dayshift, 40 hours per week

**Starting rate**: £10.55 per hour and overtime paid at 1.5 x rate after 40 hours.

**Job Overview**:
To maintain and monitor the sites quality management system within the factory to ensure the safety, legality and quality of the product are adhered to and meet customer requirements. To ensure that customer specifications, quality manual and procedures, record keeping, and hygiene standards are communicated to and understood throughout the factory and assist operations team in meeting them.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Collate, audit and archive production process paperwork, including CCP records, ensuring document control is correct and quality standards are maintained throughout the factory through routine checks of factory production.
- Understand “What makes the product safe” and conduct daily Critical Control Point verification testing i.e. salt in aqueous phase testing.
- Send customer CoA’s where applicable and conduct positive release where necessary.
- Auditing, checks and sampling.
- Conduct and prepare taste panels.
- Take ownership of the factory management of Quality Contracts and Quality Attribute Sheets to ensure they are up to date and work closely with the operation team to ensure compliance.
- Issue, report & document non-conformances ensuring that full root cause analysis is carried out and that effective correction actions have been completed within an appropriate timeframe.
- Assist the department/factory in preparing for customer visits/audits.
- Assist factory trials where applicable.
- To perform tasks that are of a reasonable request in line with the Technical department.
- Take part in given Internal and External training to ensure a full understanding of job role and impact on food safety and integrity.

**Needs to have or be willing to learn/undertake training**:

- Knowledge of EU and Global Food Safety Standards and Legislation
- Knowledge of Food Hygiene Standards
- Knowledge of Customer Technical Standards in a food-manufacturing environment
- Understanding of Health & Safety

**Knowledge, Skills & Experience**:

- Food manufacturing related experience in high care environment desired but not essential.
- Auditing experience desired but not essential.
- Flexibility towards working hours including shift work.
- Be able to communicate between all levels of staff within the business.
- Attention to detail
- Good time management skills
- Computer literate

**Benefits of working for ASL**:

- Support with relocation / finding accommodation
- Discounted products
- Onsite Food & drink facilities available at a reduced cost.
- Training & Development Opportunities
- Staff Suggestion Scheme
- Staff Recognition Scheme
- Employee Competitions
- Scampi & Chips Day
- Extra holiday entitlement for the length of service
- Access to our ASL Staff Portal
- Onsite support - HR Department, Employee Engagement and H&S committee, First Aiders, and Mental Health First Aiders.
- BHSF Employee app - medical, health and wellbeing support and fitness, shopping and eating out discounts.
- Job security - expanding business