Quality Assurance Auditor

Greencore Group; Spalding; Remote; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Holidays

Competitive pension contributions

Life insurance up to 4x salary

Company share save scheme

Greencore Qualifications

Staff discount platform

Wellbeing Centre platform

Job summary

Greencore, a leading UK producer of convenience food, is seeking a QA Auditor at the Spalding site. The role focuses on auditing Quality Management Systems, GMP and HACCP, ensuring traceability, sampling and investigation support.

You will drive corrective actions with operations, and assist in NPD trials and product life assessments. You will work with a team of around 540 colleagues, benefiting from on-site training, a restaurant for staff, and strong health and safety standards.

Qualifications

• GCSE or equivalent with numeracy and literacy.
• Basic IT skills including MS Office.
• Health & Safety Level 2 and Food Hygiene Level 2 qualification.
• CCP training including HACCP principles for Manufacturing Unit.
• Experience and understanding of internal audit processes.
• Knowledge of GMP techniques and non-conformance reporting.

Responsibilities

• Audit compliance against Quality Management Systems, GMP and HACCP with objective evidence.
• Communicate with operations to implement corrective actions and monitor progress.
• Suggest improvements to fabrication and procedures.
• Understand site traceability to complete audits and investigations.
• Take samples (micro, nutritional, swab, organoleptic) per schedules.
• Prepare and facilitate taste panels and record results.
• Calibrate measurement equipment per schedules.
• Assist QA Supervisor in investigations on specs, complaints and incidents.
• Support NPD trials and product launches with micro testing.
• Provide technical support during customer visits or audits.
• Coordinate daily activities to improve Technical KPIs.
• Operate safely and support health, safety and environment initiatives.

Skills

GCSE literacy

Basic IT skills

Health & Safety L2

Food Hygiene L2

HACCP training

GMP knowledge

Audit experience

Allergen awareness

Education

GCSE or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Blue Shift Week 1: Sun - Tues / Week 2: Sun - Weds 06:00 - 18:00

Why Greencore?

Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026,we’reone of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make every day taste better.As a vibrant and fast-moving business,we’reproud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and

snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn.

Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy thevery best, whenever and wherever they shop.

Here atSpalding, we have a team of around 540 colleagues. We produce coleslaw, potato salad, salad bar bulk products (2kg), pasta salads and couscous/grains for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Morrisons, Co-op, Asda, Aldi, Sainsbury’s, Nando’s and Pizza Hut. Our Spalding site has a restaurant with hot food available to all our colleagues.

What you’ll be doing:

• To audit compliance against Quality Management Systems, GMP and HACCP controls, raising all non-conformances against relevant standards with objective evidence.
• Effectively communicating to enable the operational teams to take the appropriate and necessary corrective action – then following up and monitoring completion of actions.
• Suggesting areas of improvement, relating to fabrication and procedures.
• Understanding the site traceability system to complete audits to demonstrate compliance and retrieve information for investigation purposes.
• To take samples (micro, nutritional, swab and organoleptic) against specific schedules and communicate the progress in a timely manner.
• Prepare and facilitate taste panels in accordance with procedure - ensuring that all results are accurately recorded and communicated to site.
• Calibration of measurement equipment in accordance with schedules and procedures.
• To assist the QA Supervisor in carrying out full investigations on specifications (micro and nutritional), complaints and incidents. Investigations may take the form of sampling, process reviews, traceability, or audits.
• To support NPD trials and product launches, assisting in micro testing and product life assessment to ensure products are manufactured to the correct standard as necessary.
• Providing technical support and advice to the factory team in the event of customer visit or audit.
• Coordination of day to day activities to deliver improvement of Technical KPIs
• To operate in a safe working manner and support the site/business on continuous improvement relating to health, safety, and the environment.

What we’re looking for:

To be successful in this role, we are looking for the following qualifications and skills:

• 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 processesHas 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 and 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.

What you’ll get in return:

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Competitive matched pension contributions
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development.