Food Safety Auditor (QA) PM Shift

Danish Crown UK; England; On-site; GBP 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food safety company in Bugle, Cornwall is seeking a Quality Assurance Specialist to join their team. This role focuses on ensuring the highest standards of hygiene and safety within food production. Candidates should have experience in quality assurance and excellent communication skills. Responsibilities include food quality inspections, equipment calibration, and internal audits. The position offers a full-time contract with competitive benefits, including 28 days holiday and enhanced leave options.

Benefits

28 Days Holiday plus Bank Holidays

Company events

Company pension

Cycle to work scheme

Discounted or free food

Enhanced maternity leave

Enhanced paternity leave

Free parking

Life insurance

Referral programme

Sick pay

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a quality assurance or food safety role within a chilled food production environment.
• Ability to conduct and communicate internal audits.
• Understanding of CCP’s and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Factory food quality inspections and verification of factory records.
• Calibration of equipment.
• Swab and sample collection including registration.
• Conducting GMP and internal audits.

Skills

Quality assurance experience

Excellent communication and reporting skills

Attention to detail

Ability to work under pressure

Computer skills (Word and Excel)

Education

Level 2 Food Safety and HACCP training

Job description

Who are Danish Crown?

We are a food company owned by Danish farmers, supplying high-quality food to customers and consumers worldwide. From butchers to business developers, we are more than 26,000 colleagues.

Why come to Danish Crown? – Here are a few reasons for you to think about.

• An amazing 28 days’ holiday plus bank holidays – that’s 36 days holiday a year.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave
• Enhanced company sick pay
• Matched company pension scheme
• Heavily discounted meat available to all staff through the staff shop.
• Well-being programmes, with free optional health care cash plans to cover your everyday healthcare costs and which offer a wide range of digital and virtual wellbeing tools to support both your health and the people you care about.
• Free Employee Assistance Programme for all colleagues and their families
• Free parking
• Free tea and coffee on all sites
• Development opportunities for those who would like to progress in a global business

Area of responsibility

This is an exciting opportunity to join the food safety team here at our Cornwall site near Bugle. Our site debones, cures and smokes pork legs which requires the very highest levels of hygiene and safety standards.

Working within a small team, quality and food safety is our focus. This factory‑based role requires you to work closely with the production team on the factory floor to ensure compliance with site procedures, policies, and customer requirements.

Responsibilities

• Factory food quality inspections and verification of factory records
• Calibration of equipment
• Swab and sample collection including registration
• Factory GMP and internal audits
• Incident management including complaint investigations
• Project work where requested
• Any other general related task for the team
• Assisting the Compliance Manager where required

Experience Required

• Previous experience in a quality assurance or food safety role within a chilled food production environment
• Excellent communication and reporting skills
• Ability to conduct, report and communicate internal audits
• Understanding of CCP’s and procedures
• Ability to work under pressure with attention to detail
• Computer experience and skills regarding use of Microsoft Word and Excel
• Level 2 Food Safety and HACCP training (Beneficial)

Specifics

• Monday – Friday
• 14:30 – Midnight
• 42 hrs per week

Salary £30,000

Shift patterns may differ during initial training
Occasional weekends will be required during peak periods
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits

• 28 Days Holiday plus Bank Holidays
• Company events
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted or free food
• Enhanced maternity leave
• Enhanced paternity leave
• Free parking
• Life insurance
• Referral programme
• Sick pay

Requirements

Ability to commute/relocate to Bugle, Cornwall
Excellent English language skills
Right to work in the United Kingdom

All employees are expected to operate in line with our Leadership principles

• Totality: We always put the overall interests of the company first, sacrifice our own targets for the greater good, and actively resist silo culture.
• Talent: We always select the strongest team, prioritize diversity, and dare to hire people who are more skilled than we are.
• Ambition: We set ambitious targets and do not get excited about easily achieved green numbers, and we dare to “lean out” in the pursuit of better results.
• Trust: We fight every day against the “zero‑mistake culture” and accept that mistakes are part of our professional and personal development journey.
• Followership: We strive daily to create followership from our employed colleagues and act as role models by living out our values and leadership principles.