Quality Assurance Auditor - Days

Yeo Valley Organic; Paignton; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free parking

PPE provided

Competitive holiday allowance

Non-contributory pension

Life cover

Healthcare cash back plan

Cycle to work scheme

Product discounts

Job summary

Yeo Valley Organic is seeking a dedicated Quality Assurance Auditor to support a continuous-improvement culture around food safety and quality on site. You will work with operations and engineering to implement technical improvements and ensure procedures are followed across departments.

The role reports to the Site Quality Manager and involves audits of co-owners, updating training records, and supporting visits and external audits to uphold high standards.

Qualifications

• Experience in a food industry role with a focus on quality and safety.
• Strong communication and influencing skills to drive improvements.
• Good IT skills with ability to manipulate and present information clearly.
• Good standard of English to document and report findings.

Responsibilities

• Identify tasks critical to food safety, legality and quality across departments.
• Audit co-owners to ensure training and competence meet standards.
• Review and revise operating procedures to close gaps.
• Maintain and update the site training database for skills and training.
• Provide holiday/absence cover for the Quality Assurance Technologist.
• Support site visits and audits and assist the Quality Manager as needed.
• Drive improvements across site KPI's in collaboration with stakeholders.

Skills

Communication skills

IT skills

English proficiency

Food industry experience

Education

Audit qualification

Training qualification

Food safety/HACCP qualifications

BRC knowledge

Job description

So, what will I be doing?

At Yeo Valley, we're about more than just making great food – we're here to Nurture & Nourish People & Planet by Making Great Food the Right Way. Forever. As a co-owned business, we invest in our people, encourage growth, and believe in doing things properly.

As Quality Assurance Auditor you’ll be responsible for supporting a continuous improvement based Food safety and Quality culture across the site in line with the business Technical strategy and policy.

You’ll ensure that we have consistent operating procedures that cover all tasks and that co-owners have received the training required to be able to confidently meet the safety and quality standards we require.

You’ll be an integral member of the Site Technical Team, reporting into the site Quality Manager. You will work with both the operations and engineering teams to identify and implement continuous improvement from a technical bias.

Key Responsibilities

• Identifying all tasks required that are critical to food safety, legality and quality in each department on site, ensuring a standard operating procedure is in place for each
• Auditing co-owners to ensure they have been trained in the necessary procedures and can confidently demonstrate the knowledge necessary to meet standards
• Work cross functionally to review and revise operating procedures where gaps are identified
• Work with co-owners to fill knowledge gaps that are identified
• Review and revise the site training database to reflect co-owners skills and training
• Provide holiday and absence cover for the Quality Assurance Technologist.
• Assisting with site visits and audits pertaining to this role.
• Supporting the Quality Manager as required
• Passionate and proud about our products and processes, you will be always looking for ways to improve our delivery on site KPI's and work closely with all key stakeholders to drive improvements across site.

Sounds interesting, what do I need?

Essential

• Demonstrable experience within a relevant role within the food industry
• Strong communication and influencing skills
• Good IT skills, ability to manipulate and present information effectively
• Good standard of English

Desirable

• A recognised audit qualification
• Training qualification
• Relevant food safety and HACCP qualifications
• Knowledge of BRC accreditation and retailer standards

Why should I join the family?

We’re independent, British and proud to be making the highest quality yogurts, desserts and ice cream under the Yeo Valley brand and for many of the UK’s major retailers. Operating from four dairies and two logistics centres in Somerset and Devon, we employ over 1700 staff and produce more than 25% of the UK’s packaged yogurt.

We’re sure you don’t need convincing, but there’s a whole host of benefits that we offer. It goes without saying that you’ll have access to free parking, top of the range personal protection equipment (PPE).

You’ll Also Receive The Following

• Competitive holiday allowance
• Non-contributory pension scheme
• Life cover
• Healthcare cash back plan
• Cycle to work scheme
• Subsidised Yeo Valley products and services preferential rates with our partners learning and development opportunities; we’re committed to ensuring all of our employees have the chance to grow.

Our closing dates are a guide for when the application window should close, although we may close the advert sooner if we can. So, we recommend you get your application in straight away – and don’t miss the opportunity to join us!

Unfortunately, we’re not able to provide employment sponsorship to candidates at this moment in time. Please note that Yeo Valley do not accept speculative agency applications; we will only accept applications from preferred suppliers that have been submitted to us via our recruitment portal at the point of instruction.