QA Auditor - Day Shift

Our Vacancies; Wisbech; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading convenience food manufacturer is seeking a Quality Assurance professional for the day shift in Wisbech. Your responsibilities will include ensuring that raw material preparation and food production meet safety and quality standards. You will conduct audits, provide training, and maintain compliance documentation. The ideal candidate will hold relevant qualifications and have skills in allergen awareness and GMP techniques. This role offers opportunities for training and career progression as part of a diverse team.

Benefits

Holidays

Pension

Cycle to Work scheme

Employee appreciation events

Company share save scheme

Greencore Qualifications

Exclusive employee discount platform

Canteen

Onsite staff shop

Free onsite car park

Qualifications

• GCSE or equivalent standard with numeracy and literacy skills.
• Health and Safety level two qualification.
• Food hygiene level two qualification.

Responsibilities

• Verify food safety and quality standards compliance.
• Conduct audits and sampling to ensure product safety.
• Provide training for operational colleagues on quality standards.

Skills

Numeracy skills

Literacy skills

Basic computer skills

Allergen awareness

Microbiological awareness

Understanding of GMP techniques

Education

GCSE or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Day shift QA BBAA - 7am to 7pm

£14.09 Per Hour

Why Greencore?

We’re one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better. As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we’re proud to employ over 13,300 talented colleagues across 16 manufacturing sites and 17 distribution depots throughout the UK. Together, we bring delicious food to life, from sandwiches, and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles, and ready meals. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve revenues of £1.95bn. Our extensive direct-to-store (DTS) network, with 17 depots nationwide, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring our customers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

Here at Wisbech, we have a team of 525 colleagues and manufacture premium chilled ready to cook meals for major retailers such as Sainsbury’s, Aldi and Co‑op.

What you'll be doing

As Quality Assurance on nights, you will verify that raw material preparation, manufacturing production and product storage/distribution is compliant with food safety, legal and customers’ quality standards.

• Sample, test, audit and monitor to verify that all processes, procedures and products are being manufactured in a safe and compliant manner
• Conduct verification checks to ensure equipment is suitably calibrated to comply with required standards
• Complete all necessary documentation ensuring that it is kept accurate and ready for internal and external audits and highlighting when non‑conformance requires corrective action
• Maintain ongoing communications with the operations team and other relevant functions ensuring they are fully aware of quality assurance activities, results and trends
• Collect all relevant samples, with adherence to procedures and protocols, to ensure quality, safety and legality of products sampled
• Provide education and training to operational colleagues and other teams to ensure compliance with all relevant technical standards
• Ensure that a safe working environment exists for all colleagues and that as a minimum the department meets the standards set out in the Health Safety and Environment policy
• Follow daily schedule of work
• Escalation of non‑conformances in a timely manner to the appropriate manager

What we’re looking for

• Educated to GCSE or equivalent standard with numeracy and literacy skill
• Able to work with basic computer programmes such as Microsoft Office applications
• Holds a Health and Safety level two and a food hygiene level two qualification
• CCP training including HACCP principles for Manufacturing Unit
• Experience and understanding of internal audit processes
• Has an understanding of allergen awareness and the associated risk
• Has a knowledge of GMP techniques
• Understands non‑conformance reporting techniques
• Microbiological awareness – understanding of basic of food safety
• Has an understanding of basic disinfection principles, basic legal labelling practice and basic weight legislation

At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together we make every day taste better. If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.

What you’ll get in return

• Holidays
• Pension
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Employee appreciation events
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Canteen
• Onsite staff shop
• Free onsite car park

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on‑the‑job training and development opportunities to further your career.