ABOUT THE ROLE.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a driven and motivated Raw Materials Quality Auditor to join our food manufacturing technical team - to be accountable for ensuring industry leading high standards of product safety, quality & legality.

ROLE ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Assessing all incoming deliveries against a pre-determined raw material specification.
• Maintaining accurate records of all raw materials (including packaging) entering the site
• Collecting samples for microbiological, nutritional, quality and chemical sampling against a pre-determined schedule and report progress in a timely manner
• With guidance from Line Manager, coordinating day to day activities to deliver improvement of Technical KPIs
• Participating in Technical audits including customer and Group Technical, ensuring all relevant raw material information is available and completed in the required timescale
• Auditing compliance against Quality Management Systems, GMP and HACCP controls - raising all non-conformances against relevant standards with objective evidence, effectively communicated to enable the operational teams to take the appropriate and necessary corrective action & to follow up and monitor completion of actions
• Developing relationships with suppliers by ensuring all non-conformances are communicated in a timely manner. Monitoring whether responses have been received and review the action plans to ensure root cause has been considered.
• Ensuring that all customer complaints in relation to raw materials are investigated satisfactorily and corrective actions are agreed and documented. Investigation findings will be reported to the site Quality/Systems Manager.
• Logging non-conformances associated with raw materials identified through intake checks, factory issues and/or customer complaints in order that supplier performance can be monitored and trended.
• Operating in a safe working manner and support the site/business on continuous improvement relating to health, safety and the environment