Quality Auditor - Shift - 12 month FTC

Lantmannen Agro; Bedford; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Lantmannen Agro is seeking a Quality Auditor to audit and promote compliance with quality and food safety procedures across the site. You will support operations and NPD teams, drive corrective actions, and ensure adherence to customer requirements.

The role emphasizes training, traceability, CCP audits, allergen management, and continuous improvement initiatives in a 24/7 Green Shift environment.

Qualifications

• Strong cross-functional relationships and interpersonal skills.
• Proficient in MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Experience with HACCP, BRC standards and food legislation is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Conduct routine verification activities to ensure site standards and GMP compliance.
• Monitor product quality and ensure specifications are met.
• Identify, report, and investigate non-conformances and implement corrective actions.
• Perform risk assessments for potential food safety and quality risks.
• Manage allergen controls and CCP verifications.
• Deliver training on quality, food safety, and technical procedures.
• Complete daily shift reports accurately and timely.
• Conduct traceability exercises and mass balance checks.
• Support during visits and audits.
• Promote a culture of quality, food safety, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Influential skills

Time management

Tools

Outlook

MS Word

MS Excel

MS PowerPoint

Job description

Reporting to the QA Supervisor, this role is responsible for auditing and promoting compliance with quality and food safety procedures, providing support and guidance to the operational and NPD teams where required and ensuring standards are in line with business needs and customer requirements.

You have:

• Good Interpersonal skills – with the ability to build strong and credible cross functional relationships
• Strong influential skills
• Good Time management – with the ability to multitask and prioritise workload to meet deadlines

You will be great at:

• Conduct routine verification activities to ensure compliance with site standards including documentation review, GMP and hard plastic audits, calibration of equipment.
• Monitor and verify product quality standards, ensuring products consistently meet specifications
• Identify, report, and investigate non-conformances, supporting root cause analysis and the implementation of effective corrective and preventive actions.
• Risk assessment to identify potential food safety and quality risks.
• Allergen management – ensure controls are in place and in line with site procedures.
• Verification of CCP checks, completion of CCP audits.
• Deliver training on quality, food safety, and technical procedures to operational teams across the site.
• Accurate and timely completion of daily shift reports.
• Conducting traceability exercise and mass balance.
• Provide support during visits and audits.
• Promote a culture of quality, food safety, and continuous improvement throughout the business.

You are:

• Diligent with excellent attention to detail
• A competent user of IT software including Outlook and MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Good communication skills with strong oral and written communication abilities
• Working knowledge of HACCP, BRC standards and Food Legislation would be advantageous

Green Shift Pattern Overview

In our 24/7 operation, the Quality Auditor role is available on the Green Shift. This means you will be working 12-hour shifts, alternating between 6:00 AM - 6:00 PM or 6:00 PM - 6:00 AM

Your working days will follow this rotation:

• Week 1 & 3:Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday (4 days on, 3 days off).
• Week 2 & 4: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, (3 days on, 4 days off).