Quality Auditor (Days)

Gousto; Warrington; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Gousto is seeking a Quality Auditor to join our Warrington site, ensuring product quality and site standards are maintained to meet customer expectations and legal compliance. You will perform intake checks, audits, and allergen control, working with production teams to support KPI delivery in a fast-paced food manufacturing environment.

The role requires experience in food manufacturing/QC, practical auditing skills, and strong communication and problem-solving abilities.

Qualifications

• Experience in a Food manufacturing or fulfilment environment.
• Experience in a QC, QA or Food Technical role.
• Practical auditing experience.
• Chilled food experience (advantageous).
• Working knowledge of HACCP, BRC and GMP would be a real advantage.
• Practical allergen management knowledge.
• High level of computer literacy including Google and/or Microsoft applications.
• Risk assessment & decision making skills.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• A confident and forward thinking team player.
• Excellent attention to detail, flexibility and problem solving.
• Ambitious and looking to progress in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including ability to effectively communicate with internal and external customers.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Ability to work cross functionally, collaborating to drive improvement.

Responsibilities

• Ensure intake checks are completed on all raw materials.
• Complete relevant paperwork, records and logs for Quality procedures.
• Conduct relevant audits.
• Regularly work with SOPs.
• Shelf life analysis and NPD product testing as required.
• Work with production stakeholders regularly.
• Support in customer complaints investigations.
• Supporting delivery of departmental KPIs.
• Assist with incidents e.g. allergens spillage, glass/hard plastic, blade breakages.

Skills

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Organisational skills

Education

Food Safety Level 2

HACCP Level 2

Auditing qualification (Desirable)

Allergen training

Tools

Google Workspace

Microsoft Office

Job description

Here at Gousto, we are on a mission to become the UK's most loved way to eat dinner, and for every meal to leave the planet better off. Gousto is changing how people shop, cook and eat food at home. Gousto customers choose recipes they like to cook and ta-dah - we deliver the perfectly measured ingredients to their door. Skip the supermarket queue, and create delicious meals! It’s an incredibly exciting time to join our team - and we’re a friendly bunch!

Job Description

Quality Auditor

£15.45 p/h 6am - 6pm | 4 on 4 off shift pattern

The QA Auditor will ensure that the product quality and site standards are maintained at all times and that the product meets the customer’s expectations and is legally compliant in all aspects.

Core responsibilities

• Ensure that intake checks are completed on all raw materials
• Complete relevant paperwork, record and logs for Quality procedures
• Conduct relevant audits
• Regularly working with SOP’s
• Shelf life analysis and NPD product testing as required
• Work with production stakeholders regularly
• Support in customer complaints investigation
• Supporting delivery of departmental KPI’s
• Assist with any incidents eg. allergens spillage, glass / hard plastic, blade breakages etc

Experience

• Experience within a Food manufacturing or fulfilment environment
• Experience in a QC, QA or Food Technical role
• Practical auditing experience
• Chilled food experience (advantageous)
• Working knowledge of HACCP, BRC and GMP would be a real advantage
• Practical allergen management knowledge
• A high level of computer literacy including working knowledge of google and/or Microsoft applications
• Risk assessment & decision making skills
• Excellent organisational skills
• A confident and forward thinking team player
• Excellent attention to detail, flexibility and problem solving
• Ambitious and looking to progress in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including ability to effectively communicate with internal and external customers
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Ability to work cross functionally, working in a collaborative way to drive improvement

Qualifications

• Food Safety Level 2
• HACCP level 2
• Auditing qualification (Desirable)
• Allergen training

Equal Opportunities

Here at Gousto, we are on a mission to become the UK's most loved way to eat dinner!

Whether it is creating diversity in our recipes or building new teams, we care about our people and the opportunities they have at Gousto.

We are committed to equality of opportunity across our organisation. At all levels we promote equality, ensuring our people are consistently treated in a fair and equal manner.

If you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.

In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example - she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc).