Quality Auditor

Bakkavor Group; England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food manufacturer in the United Kingdom is seeking a QA Auditor for a 12-month contract at their Meals London site. The role involves auditing quality systems, conducting internal audits, and ensuring compliance with food safety standards. Ideal candidates have experience in a Technical/QA role within food and possess strong communication and problem-solving skills. The position offers competitive salary, site-based work, and various employee benefits including health insurance and paid holidays.

Benefits

Life Assurance

25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays

Private medical insurance

Staff Shop

Pension Scheme

Discount & Cashback platform

Personal Accident Insurance

Free health check

Qualifications

• Experience within a similar Technical/QA role in a food environment is ideal.
• Skills can be taught with enthusiasm and drive to develop within quality assurance.
• Understanding the chain of custody within the food environment is crucial.

Responsibilities

• Audit and evaluate quality systems and procedures.
• Conduct internal audits and monitor environmental hygiene practices.
• Perform quality checks on finished products and raw materials.

Skills

Quality control

Auditing

Technical communication

Problem-solving

Education

Professional experience in Technical/QA role in food environment

Job description

QA Auditor -FTC

We're proud to be Bakkavor

Salary -Competitive

Location - Meals London - Cumberland

Ways of Working - Site based

Shift Pattern -Friday - Monday 06 : 00 - 17 : 00

Contract Type - FTC 12 months

Why join us?

We're proud of what we do, why we do it and who we do it for. We're proud to give everyone the opportunity and support to develop and progress their career. To nurture talent, fuel ambition and work with resilience and purpose to achieve the highest possible standards. We're proud of our caring culture, loyal colleagues and future focus. But, most of all, we're proud of enable and empower everyone to believe, achieve and succeed. .

What we do.

This particular role is at our Bakkavor Meals site in Park Royal - West London. Split across 3 factories and 1 distribution centre. The factories make chilled ready meals, houmous dips, deli products & savoury accompaniments and employs over 2,000 people.

About the role.

To audit, monitor, improve and evaluate quality systems and procedures and provide technical support for the operational teams while maintaining and promoting technical and quality standards in line with business needs and customer requirements with guidance from QA Supervisor / Manager.

Compliance tasks

• Critical Control Points annual validations
• Allergen validations
• Packaging intake verification

Conducting internal audits / Quality Auditors tasks

• Monitoring environmental and hygiene practises, including post clean line sign-off, collection of swabs & water samples
• Quality checks and then collection of finished product and raw materials for microbiological & nutritional testing
• Conducting various daily audits (including GMP, Glass & Plastics audits, and ensuring corrective action with the shift manager
• Conducting internal quality assessment panels (QAS) throughout the shift & raising issues with the senior key-op / shift manager
• Calibration & Verification of factory equipment
• Raising & completion of factory non conformances
• Dealing with shift issues & completion of QA shift report

Complaint & Olympus mismatches Investigations

About you

Ideally you will have some professional experience within a similar Technical / QA role in a food environment, but skills can be taught and if you have the enthusiasm and drive to develop within quality assurance this is an excellent first role.

Understanding the chain of custody within the food environment and a background of working on small to mid‑sized quality improvement projects, such as implementing new procedures and defining new supporting documentation - will be key.

You will be an excellent communicator who can work alone with a proactive and innovative approach to problem solving

What you'll receive.

• Life Assurance (1 x salary)
• 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role)
• Private medical insurance (after 5 years' service)
• Staff Shop
• Stakeholder Pension Scheme
• Discount & cashback platform
• Personal Accident Insurance
• Free health check

Employee Assistance Programme

A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans)

Salary sacrifice car lease scheme

Free independent mortgage advice

Discounted tutoring for children

Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Proud to be Bakkavor.

We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!

At Bakkavor, we are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive, and we believe that diversity makes us stronger. We welcome and encourage applications from all backgrounds and ensure fair, transparent recruitment practices. Learn more about our commitment in our Inclusion and Diversity Policy ( Inclusion & Diversity Policy ).

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