Quality Assurance Auditor

Posted 14 March 2025
Salary Competitive
LocationSpalding
Job type Permanent - Full Time
Discipline Technical
Reference030024
Job FunctionOperations
Expiry date 14 June 2025

Job description

 

Why Greencore?

We’re a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make every day taste better.  We’re sure you’ve tried our products because we supply food for the all the major supermarkets in the UK!

Here at Spalding, we have a team of around 540 colleagues. We produce coleslaw, potato salad, salad bar bulk products (2kg), pasta salads and couscous/grains for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Morrisons, Co-op, Asda, Aldi, Sainsbury’s, Nando’s and Pizza Hut. Our Spalding site has a restaurant with hot food available to all our colleagues.

 

What you'll be doing:

  • To audit compliance against Quality Management Systems, GMP and HACCP controls, raising all non-conformances against relevant standards with objective evidence.
  • Effectively communicating to enable the operational teams to take the appropriate and necessary corrective action – then following up and monitoring completion of actions.
  • Suggesting areas of improvement, relating to fabrication and procedures.
  • Understanding the site traceability system to complete audits to demonstrate compliance and retrieve information for investigation purposes.
  • To take samples (micro, nutritional, swab and organoleptic) against specific schedules and communicate the progress in a timely manner.
  • Prepare and facilitate taste panels in accordance with procedure - ensuring that all results are accurately recorded and communicated to site.
  • Calibration of measurement equipment in accordance with schedules and procedures.
  • To assist the QA Supervisor in carrying out full investigations on specifications (micro and nutritional), complaints and incidents. Investigations may take the form of sampling, process reviews, traceability, or audits.
  • To support NPD trials and product launches, assisting in micro testing and product life assessment to ensure products are manufactured to the correct standard as necessary.
  • Providing technical support and advice to the factory team in the event of customer visit or audit.
  • Coordination of day to day activities to deliver improvement of Technical KPIs
  • To operate in a safe working manner and support the site/business on continuous improvement relating to health, safety, and the environment.

What we’re looking for:

 

To be successful in this role, we are looking for the following qualifications and skills:

  • Educated to GCSE or equivalent standard with numeracy and literacy skill
  • Able to work with basic computer programmes such as Microsoft Office applications
  • Holds a Health and Safety level two and a food hygiene level two qualification
  • CCP training including HACCP principles for Manufacturing Unit
  • Experience and understanding of internal audit processes
  • Has an understanding of allergen awareness and the associated risk
  • Has a knowledge of GMP techniques
  • Understands non-conformance reporting techniques
  • Microbiological awareness – understanding of basic of food safety
  • Has and understanding of basic disinfection principles, basic legal labelling practice and basic weight legislation

At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together we make every day taste better.

 

What you’ll get in return:

  • Competitive salary and job-related benefits
  • Holidays
  • Pension up to 8% matched
  • Life insurance up to 4x salary
  • Company share save scheme
  • Greencore Qualifications
  • Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
  • Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development.