Quality & Food Safety Auditor (weekend)

Apetito; Trowbridge; Hybrid; GBP 22,000 - 26,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Living Wage employer

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Discretionary bonus scheme

Pension scheme (employer matched)

Life assurance 1x salary

Free parking

Canteen / staff benefits

Job summary

apetito is hiring a Quality & Food Safety Auditor in Trowbridge to own audits, investigations and continuous improvement ensuring high standards. Work 36 hours across Fri-Sun, 6.00am-6.00pm, with a 3-day week and 4 days off, on-site at our Wiltshire site.

You will drive compliance with QMS, BRC and HACCP while supporting a culture of safety and quality. Join apetito, the UK’s leading food supplier to health and social care, with extensive benefits and a supportive team environment.

Qualifications

• Must have good spoken and written English.
• Experience in a food manufacturing environment.
• Auditing experience in Food Safety & Quality.
• Experience meeting KPIs and working with quality management systems.
• Calm under pressure, able to meet tight deadlines and use IT systems.
• Flexible, team-oriented, eager to learn and able to follow instructions.

Responsibilities

• Audit and maintain compliance with Quality Management System, BRC, HACCP and CCPs.
• Conduct traceability exercises and investigations for non-conforming products or complaints.
• Identify, document and report food safety and quality non-conformances with evidence.
• Investigate customer complaints and determine root causes with corrective actions.
• Verify and close corrective actions in a timely manner.
• Challenge procedures where safety/quality concerns arise.
• Assess finished products against specifications including QA taste panels.
• Manage non-conforming materials, supplier rejections and SAP records.
• Risk assess inbound materials and determine inspection and containment actions.
• Place products on hold when safety/quality is at risk; coordinate with Quality Manager.
• Oversee in-house detection systems, testing programmes and legal requirements.
• Coordinate pest control and deliver inductions for new starters and visitors.

Skills

Good spoken and written English

Food manufacturing experience

Auditing experience

KPIs

Quality management systems

Calm under pressure

IT systems

Flexibility

Team player

Eager to learn

Follow instructions

Can-do attitude

Education

GCSE English & Maths

Degree in relevant subject

Tools

SAP

Job description

£16.50 per hour + £2.75 per hour shift allowance + Bonus + Benefits

• Location: UK-Wiltshire-Trowbridge |
• Contract type: Permanent (Full-Time) |

Overview

36 hours per week

Friday-Sunday, 6.00am - 6.00pm.

3 day week, 4 days off!

Are you passionate about food quality and making a real impact?

Join us as a Quality & Food Safety Auditor and take ownership of audits, investigations, compliance and continuous improvement activities that help deliver safe, high-quality products to thousands of customers every day.

You’ll work as part of the technical department, which can be described as the ‘Conscience of the Business’ with a core remit of keeping the business and our customers safe by ensuring quality of our food meets the standards we are proud to achieve.

£16.50 per hour + £2.75 per hour shift allowance + Bonus + Benefits

This role is based on site so you’ll need to live within a reasonable commuting distance.

Who we are

apetito is the UK’s leading food supplier to the health and social care sectors serving more than 1,300 care homes, health care and education settings.

Our meals are expertly crafted by our dieticians and chefs, and then frozen to lock in the goodness.

Wiltshire Farm Foods, our sister company, is the UK’s largest ready meal supplier cooking and delivering over 330 different delicious frozen ready meals across the UK.

Responsibilities

• Audit and maintain compliance with the Quality Management System, BRC standards, HACCP, risk assessments and CCPs.
• Conduct traceability exercises and investigations for non-conforming products, ingredients and customer complaints.
• Identify, document and report food safety and quality non-conformances, ensuring evidence is gathered and risks are controlled.
• Investigate customer complaints, determine root causes and communicate corrective actions to stakeholders.
• Review and verify corrective actions, ensuring timely implementation and closure of investigations.
• Challenge policies, procedures and product specifications where food safety or quality concerns arise.
• Assess finished products against specifications, including QA taste panel verification.
• Manage non-conforming raw materials, concessions, supplier rejections and supplier non-conformances through SAP.
• Risk assess inbound materials and determine appropriate inspection, testing and containment actions.
• Place products on hold where food safety or quality is at risk and coordinate resolution with the Quality Manager.
• Manage in-house detection systems, equipment compliance checks, testing programmes and legal food safety requirements.
• Coordinate pest control activities, maintain technical compliance records, and deliver food safety and quality inductions to new starters and visitors.

About you

Essential:

• Good spoken and written English
• Experience of working in afood manufacturingenvironment
• Auditing experience Food Safety & Quality
• Experience of working to KPIs
• Experience of working in an environment with quality management systems
• Calm working under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Competent using IT systems
• Flexible
• Team player
• Eager to learn
• Can follow instructions
• Can Do Attitude

Desirable:

• GCSE English & Maths
• Experience writing procedures
• Experience working in an internal and external auditing environment.
• Experience using SAP
• Degree in relevant subject

This role is not eligible for sponsorship under the skilled worker route as it does not meet the minimum requirements set out under the UK Immigration Rules.

Company Benefits

• Competitive salary – accredited Living Wage employer
• 25 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays
• Option to purchase up to 5 additional days holiday per year
• Discretionary annual bonus scheme
• Pension scheme - employer matched contributions up to 4%
• Life assurance scheme worth at least 1x annual salary
• Subsidised canteen
• Free parking
• Free turkey or voucher at Christmas
• apetito perks scheme including salary sacrifice options and retail discounts

Our Values

As a family-owned business, we take great pride in being a company that makes a real difference and is dedicated to creating outstanding meals to be proud of.

We develop a range of products designed to enhance health and well-being for all our customers.

We are driven by a passion for service and dedicated to feeding some of the UK’s most vulnerable people.

We proudly support British food and farming, focusing on using the best ethical and sustainable produce in alignment with our goal to reach Net Zero by 2040.

Our ethical standards are recognised by the ETI and we are an accredited Living Wage employer.
Learn more about apetito’s commitment to a more sustainable future .

We embrace inclusion, empowering individuals from diverse backgrounds.

Our commitment to making a real difference extends to customers, communities, and staff and we're on a mission to build an inclusive workplace where everyone reaches their full potential.