Job description

Quality Assurance Auditor

An exciting opportunity has arisen as part of a rapidly developing convenience food-to-go manufacturer due to the fast organic growth of the business. We now wish to support our vision and mission further by the appointment of a new Quality Auditor. The company is a private family-owned food-to-go manufacturer in London supplying retail clients and foodservice operators with a range of chilled ready to eat products.

The role

• To ensure product quality assurance, legality, safety and authenticity throughout the process of manufacturing
• To ensure all products produced are safe, legal and authentic and meet customer requirements and expectation.
• To ensure GMP are fully complied

Essential Skills

• Excellent attention to detail
• Min Level 3 HACCP training
• Experience in food safety, legality, quality and authenticity aspects of food

Desirable

• A bachelor Food degree or equivalent education.

Main Responsibilities:

• Monitoring product quality along the production lines to the agreed specifications.
• To carry out GMP audits
• Ensuring the production line staff adhere to good manufacturing & good hygiene practices, including line clean downs / product change-overs / allergen control.
• Ensuring mixes and finished products are produced as per specification and traceability paperwork is always completed.
• To carry out regular on line product weight and quality checks for each product type, providing feedback to the team and ensuring appropriate corrective action is taken.
• Ensuring appropriate resources are available for the team including product specifications, portioning and personal protective equipment.
• To ensure that Critical Control Points (CCP’s) are adhered to by all production staff and any failures are reported to the Technical/Quality Management and the relevant corrective actions implemented.
• To carry out metal detection verification and complete rejected metal log documentation according to procedure and report any non-conformances to Technical/Quality Management.
• To carry out random checks in the allocation/labelling area to ensure that product labels, date coding, product label placement as well as packaging seals are correct.
• To verify chiller/freezer temperatures against displayed temperatures.
• Dealing with customer complaints.
• To provide holiday cover for QAAs when they go on holidays.
• To conduct internal and external GMP audits with the assistance of other area managers.
• Conducting taste panel and communicate to management team.
• To assist in staff training and ensure induction and training systems are maintained.
• To support the New Product Development in ensuring the appropriate accreditation of the suppliers, development of specifications and the launch of products.
• To collect micro samples for finished products, raw materials, WIP products, shelf life, water and carry-out swabbing on floors, drains, equipment and hands, and do air plates according to micro schedule. To ensure that all samples are registered and sent to laboratory for testing;
• To ensure out of micro results are retested according to the procedure in the place;
• To document all process deviations and non-conforming products by raising non-conformances, concession, hold note and supplier non-conformances and follow all those for proper corrective actions. All process deviation and non-confirming products must be recorded on the relevant logs;
• To deal with daily troubleshooting;
• To ensure that shift handover will be done properly and shift report will be completed accurately; and
• To ensure all daily documents and paperwork are checked, verified and filed.
• To conduct daily/weekly/monthly audits and checks. To ensure that all issues and non-conformances raised during the audits and routine checks are raised with relevant department’s heads and all corrective actions are followed and implemented.
• To organise taste panels to ensure attendance is at a high level from the required departments.
• To ensure the taste panel issues are reported and to ensure that taste panel results are entered into the database.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

• Company events
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted or free food
• Employee discount
• Gym membership
• Store discount

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Night shift
• Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Croydon: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: Quality Auditor October 22