Job description

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Quality Auditor- Permanent Position

Monday- Friday 8:30am- 4:30pm

Location: Hertfordshire

Salary: Up to £33K Dependant on experience

Exciting opportunity to join the Technical team at a market leading Food Business based in Hertfordshire. You will be responsible for establishing and maintaining product quality and food safety through process monitoring, auditing, problem solving and communicating to individuals at all levels within the organisation. As part of your role, you will monitor and audit the manufacturing processes within the manufacturing environment in order to provide qualitative and quantitative analysis of the processes, from there develop and recommend action plans to improve the processes.

Key Accountabilities

Safety First! To support and be actively involved in improving and maintaining a safe working environment by ensuring that team members and employees are fully aware and comply with all Health and Safety standards, company and legal requirements.

Food Safety:

To carry out HACCP validation and verification checks
Ensuring product is manufactured having taken all reasonable precautions to prevent Foreign Body contamination of all descriptions
Create and deliver appropriate training
To carry regular audits and follow up on corrective actions
Support in managing Food Safety incidents

Quality:

To carry out process audits as defined within requirements
Complete audits of finished product quality
Sampling of products to ensure Product Quality and shelf life
Maintaining the QSM
To carry out environmental monitoring and working with the Hygiene department to implement corrective actions

Legality:

To collate daily weights information and ensure any corrective actions required are carried out
To review checkweigher performance daily and arrange for any remedial/corrective actions to be carried out

Project Work:

To continuously analyse and look for trends in all areas of the technical team scope
To feedback regularly and suggest and implement solutions that arise
To be involved in project work as required
To initiate CI projects to improve systems or solve problems

CANDIDATE

Will have previous experience of working in a technical department preferably in a Food Manufacturing environment
Experience leading project involving multi-disciplinary teams is desirable.
Team player with excellent organisation and planning skills.
Ability to influence and communicate effectively at all levels.
Professional approach and a self-starter and willing to learn new skills
Ideally degree educated, or equivalent.
PC Literate, including excellent Excel knowledge

BENEFITS

Compensation package is market-aligned, and includes 25 days of annual leave (assuming a 5-day work week)
Comprehensive induction and training
Employer pension contributions matching up to 10% (inclusive of Life Assurance)
Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) with access to in-house counsellors, legal, and financial support

My Healthy Advantage smartphone app with personalised well-being content

Cycle to Work Scheme and Salary Finance Scheme
Discount scheme for employees at over 500 retailers and outlets.
Potential for career progression

If you are interested in this position then please forward a copy of your most up to date CV to andrew@drnewitt.com or contact Andrew Donaldson on 0131 226 5060.