Quality Auditor - Primary

Avara Foods Ltd; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000

Job description

About the Role:

Do you want to earn a minimum of £14.40 per hour? We’re looking for a Quality Auditor to join our team at our site in Brackley, Northamptonshire.

The benefits of working for Avara Foods:

• £14.40 per hour plus shift allowance of £2.00 for any hours worked between 18:00 and 06:00
• Paid Weekly
• Overtime available
• Earn a minimum of £590.4 per week
• Earn £500 for every friend or family member you refer for a job with us*
• Training and development from day one
• Secure contract, guaranteed hours and opportunities for overtime
• Free Tea and Coffee
• Free on-site parking
• Subsidised staff canteen
• Subsidised local transport to and from site, with several stops
• Discounted staff shop

*T’s & C’s apply

Working Hours:

Monday to Friday

Monday-Thursday 05:30-14:30, Friday 05:30-14:45 (Flexible as required)

About the role:

As a Quality Auditor, you’ll be responsible for the auditing of all primary activities to ensure product safety/quality/legality through effective welfare procedures, HACCP and quality systems. You will also support the management and continuous improvement of primary areas and the employees working in them, ensuring products meet and exceed customer expectations.

• Understand and adhere to food safety/quality and health & safety standards, policies and procedures, ensuring the safe, ethical and legal production of food.
• Provide technical support to production ensuring product is consistently produced to the agreed quality standards and specifications.
• Monitor, challenge standards and continually develop the function ensuring good custom and practice in welfare, biosecurity, food safety and quality, GMP, hygiene and maintenance.
• Effectively problem solve to root cause when product or processes deviate from the agreed standard including investigations on iAuditor.
• Verify the procedures detailed within the Quality Management System and HACCP manual are in place and actively adhered to, safeguarding the continuous accreditation to BRC ensuring all paperwork is completed fully, legibly and accurately to ensure due diligence.
• Liaise with external governing bodies (e.g. the Official Veterinarian).
• Complete internal audits and inspections as part of the schedule.
• Monitor and make recommendations regarding the pest control system to ensure Company and Legislative requirements are met.
• Carry out effective product and hygiene tests, recording data and ensuring corrective action is taken.

What you’ll need to be successful:

Essential:

• Attention to detail
• Ability to form good working relationships
• Team player
• Excel / computer skills
• Good level of communication
• Self-motivated and able to work on own initiative and manage own time
• Experience of fast-moving production environment
• Able to deal effectively with challenging situations

Desirable:

• Intermediate Food Safety qualification
• Intermediate HACCP
• Internal auditing qualification
• Poultry welfare qualification
• Certificate of competence
• Experience of food industry and Primary Processing
• Experienced with paperless QA systems i.e. iAuditor and Start Safe

Who are we, and what do we do?

You may not have heard of us, but there’s a good chance you’ve enjoyed our products. Avara Foods is one of the UK’s leading food businesses, supplying chicken and turkey to the country’s major supermarkets and well-known restaurants.

We own and manage our entire supply chain, from farms to factory and all the way to the customer door – meaning we have careers that cover a whole range of functions. We have major processing sites across England and Wales, and an agricultural network of over 350 farms, spanning from North Yorkshire to the South Coast and Wales.

A little about our Brackley site:

Our advanced manufacturing site in Brackley is one of our main processing facilities, processing up to 1.2 million birds per week. There are over 700 talented people employed at our Brackley site, helping us to deliver high quality products to our customers and making the business a trusted leader in fresh foods.

What happens after you apply for this role?

After you’ve applied, you’ll be contacted in due course by a Resourcing Officer at our Brackley site, to discuss your application and CV further. There’ll also be a chance for you to ask us any questions you may have about the role.

If you’re ready to work in a dynamic environment alongside talented people who take pride in delivering great results, apply today!

Due to Bird Welfare, it is essential that you do not own any Avian Pets or Poultry.

We are committed to being an equal opportunities employer.

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