QA Auditor -Days * Factory based role*
We drive our own success.
Bakkavor Meals Cumberland
Shift: Sunday-Thursday
Hours: 6am-3pm
Contract: Permanent
Salary: competitive
Highly competitive reward package including staff shop, MyBargains discount platform and more.
Why join us?
We’re constantly evolving, progressing, and diversifying. And we want our people to do so too. For everyone to feel empowered, engaged and enabled. To create opportunities to move forward, climb higher and push for more. We believe in fueling ambition and guiding success. In supporting everyone with talent and drive to own what they do, realize their potential, and build a brilliant future for themselves at Bakkavor.
What we do.
This particular role is at our Bakkavor Meals site in Park Royal - West London. Split across 3 factories and 1 distribution centre. The factories make chilled ready meals, houmous dips, deli products & savoury accompaniments and employs over 2,000 people.
About the role.
To audit, monitor, improve and evaluate quality systems and procedures and provide technical support for the operational teams while maintaining and promoting technical and quality standards in line with business needs and customer requirements with guidance from QA Supervisor / Manager.

Compliance tasks:

• Critical Control Points annual validations
• Allergen validations
• Packaging intake verification
• Conducting internal audits

Quality Auditors tasks:

• Monitoring environmental and hygiene practises, including post clean line sign-off, collection of swabs & water samples
• Quality checks and then collection of finished product and raw materials for microbiological & nutritional testing
• Conducting various daily audits (including GMP, Glass & Plastics audits, and ensuring corrective action with the shift manager
• Conducting internal quality assessment panels (QAS) throughout the shift & raising issues with the senior key-op/ shift manager
• Calibration & Verification of factory equipment
• Raising & completion of factory non conformances
• Dealing with shift issues & completion of QA shift report
• Complaint & Olympus mismatches Investigations

About you.
Ideally you will have some professional experience within a similar Technical/QA role in a food environment, but skills can be taught and if you have the enthusiasm and drive to develop within quality assurance this is an excellent first role.
Understanding the chain of custody within the food environment and a background of working on small to mid-sized quality improvement projects, such as implementing new procedures and defining new supporting documentation - will be key.
You will be an excellent communicator who can work alone with a proactive and innovative approach to problem solving
What you’ll receive.
As an equal opportunity employer, we’re committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.

You’ll enjoy:

• Life Assurance (1 x salary)
• 25 days holiday
• Staff Shop
• Stakeholder Pension Scheme
• MyBargains Discount Platform
• Personal Accident Insurance
• Free Independent Mortgage Advice
• Employee Assistance Programme
• A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans)
• Discounted tutoring for children
• Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary
• Private Medical Insurance (after 5 years service)
• Free Carparking

Proud to be Bakkavor.
We’re proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We’re proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose. We’re driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business – come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!
Find out more and apply.

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Compliance tasks:

• Critical Control Points annual validations
• Allergen validations
• Packaging intake verification
• Conducting internal audit

Quality Auditors tasks:

• Monitoring environmental and hygiene practises, including post clean line sign-off, collection of swabs & water samples
• Quality checks and then collection of finished product and raw materials for microbiological & nutritional testing
• Conducting various daily audits (including GMP, Glass & Plastics audits, and ensuring corrective action with the shift manager
• Conducting internal quality assessment panels (QAS) throughout the shift & raising issues with the senior key-op/ shift manager
• Calibration & Verification of factory equipment
• Raising & completion of factory non conformances
• Dealing with shift issues & completion of QA shift report
• Complaint & Olympus mismatches Investigation