Quality Auditor

Yeo Valley Farms (Production) Ltd; South Somerset; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading dairy producer seeks a Quality Auditor to enhance a food safety culture at their Crewkerne site. The role involves coaching stakeholders and ensuring compliance with quality standards while driving continuous improvement initiatives. Candidates should possess HACCP level 3 and food safety level 3 certifications. Joining this family-run business offers the chance to be part of a proud UK brand with benefits including a competitive holiday allowance and development opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive holiday allowance

Non-contributory pension scheme

Life cover

Healthcare cash back plan

Cycle to work scheme

Subsidized products and services

Preferential rates with partners

Annual bonus based on performance

Learning and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in quality assurance or related field.
• HACCP level 3 certification required.
• Food safety level 3 certification required.

Responsibilities

• Uphold legal and customer expectations for food safety.
• Coach site functions on food safety and quality.
• Monitor product quality and compliance with standards.
• Support improvements across all key stakeholders.

Skills

HACCP level 3

Food safety level 3

Coaching skills

Education

Formal qualification or demonstrable experience

Food degree

Internal audit qualification

Job description

So, what will I be doing?

As a Quality Auditor you'll be driving a quality culture across our Crewkerne site. Coaching and motivating the key stakeholders you'll be working with, you'll be acting as a catalyst for influencing continuous improvement and better ways of working.

This position is for day/late shift (10am until 10pm) working a 4on 4off shift pattern.

You'll be working with a variety of stakeholders on a range of projects and initiatives to drive improvements during a hugely exciting time at Cannington as we embark on a number of site specific initiatives and launches.

In our business you'll be responsible for

• Upholding legal, customer and consumer expectations, and ensuring we are operating in a true quality, food safety focused, working environment.
• Supporting and coaching all site functions on food safety and quality aspects of production.
• Providing an operationally proactive Quality Assurance presence in order to monitor real time manufacturing Product Quality and Compliance to Quality Standards and Technical Procedures.
• Supporting cross functional improvements when required across all key stakeholders.

Sounds interesting, what do I need?

• Formal qualification or demonstrable experience
• HACCP level 3
• Food safety level 3

Even better if you possess

• Food degree
• Internal audit qualification
• Good coaching skills

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 including:

• competitive holiday allowance
• non-contributory pension scheme
• life cover
• healthcare cash back plan
• cycle to work scheme
• subsidized Yeo Valley products and services
• preferential rates with our partners
• annual bonus (as part of the Employee Benefit Trust, based on company performance for the year)
• 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.