Details:
- Salary: £28,000 - 30,000 - Annum
- Location: Bourne
- Date: 2 weeks ago
Description:
We are the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, and our presence in the US and China positions the Group well in these high-growth markets. We leverage our consumer insight and scale to provide innovative food that offers quality, choice, convenience, and freshness. Around 18,500 colleagues operate from 44 sites across our three markets supplying a portfolio of over 2,900 products across meals, pizza & bread, salads and desserts to leading grocery retailers in the UK and US, and international food brands in China.
Bakkavor Bourne, Lincolnshire specialises in making prepared fruit, dressed salads and stir fry mixes. It employs over 1,100 people and forms part of the Bakkavor Meals sector in the UK.
Salary: £28,000 - £30,000 depending on experience
Shift: Days - Red shift
Shift Time: 4 on 4 off, 06:00 - 18:00
Benefits: 22 Days Annual Leave, Pension, flexible benefits, on-site canteen, employee forum, Long Service Awards, Christmas events, company wellbeing programme, £250 referral scheme, free parking and more.
The role:
Working as part of a wider team of twelve Quality Assurance Auditors and reporting directly into our Quality Assurance Managers, you will play a key role in ensuring that Bourne continues to meet all quality and technical standards set nationally and by our grocery retailer partners.
As one of our QA Auditors, you will audit, monitor, improve and evaluate quality systems and procedures and provide technical support for the operational teams as well as maintaining and promoting technical and quality standards in line with business needs and customer requirements will be a key focus.
In this position you will work on a permanent day shift which will include some weekend working as set by the rota.
Day to day duties will be:
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 Manager 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
About you:
As well as welcoming applications from candidates from a quality or technical background, we would also like to encourage applications from candidates who have operational or line experience within food production/manufacturing who wish to develop their career. If you have excellent attention to detail, are process driven and can use your initiative to prioritise your workload and problem solve we would like to hear from you.
Full training on internal quality processes is provided to the successful candidate.
Proud to be Bakkavor
We’re proud to be the leading UK provider of innovative, high-quality, fresh prepared food. We’re proud to be driven by the hard work and passion of our people. And we’re proud to offer a wide range of careers full of support and opportunity. Join our team and we’ll make you proud too.
Apply now to find out more!
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