QA Auditor

TN United Kingdom; Grimsby; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job description

Role: QA Auditor
Salary: Competitive
Location: Grimsby, Laforey Road

About us:
We are a company that takes pride in our people as it is our people who are at the centre of everything that we do. We have multi-category expertise with a focus on quality and innovation. We deliver what customers need and consumers want with expert taste and growth mindset. Our business began with meat, and we've developed and extend a market-leading expertise within Seafood, with unmatched quality globally. We're always investing in new technology to deliver more value, efficiency and consumer-led innovative solutions.

What we are looking for:
We are looking for a professional and experienced QA Auditor to drive compliance and improvement across all site processes and products by supporting in the production of safe and legal products. To maintain and continually improve the site Technical standards set internally, by Hilton Food Group and our retail customers and to be ambassadors in driving the Quality Culture across site.

Key responsibilities as a QA Auditor will be to:

1. Deputise for the QA Supervisor in periods of absence.
2. Mentor & support the training of key production staff in food safety procedures.
3. Drive food safety & GMP standards across low risk and high risk areas (ER2 only), supporting the listeria management plan.
4. Manage the set up and programming of MD's, X-rays (where applicable), & checkweighers for new and current products ensuring optimum settings for the products.
5. Support in the investigation and data gathering for internal incidents allowing for robust risk assessments and preventative actions.
6. Support the coding, label management and verification processes. Highlighting issues immediately to the relevant department and ensuring additional processes are in place to ensure accuracy.
7. Conduct cross checks across production paperwork and verification of CCP records ensuring that errors/training issues are highlighted and shared across shifts and that any deviations are fully investigated back to root cause, to support continuous improvement and minimise reoccurrences.
8. Conduct 'Value adding' GMP, post hygiene & compliance audits that demonstrate both compliance and continuous improvement across site. Ensure there is clear communication of both results and action plans across the factory floor.
9. Conduct CCP audits and to cascade and share the results to the wider teams within the DRM meetings.
10. Support in the update and issuing of internal specifications and the approval of new specifications as part of the NPD process.
11. Ensure compliance to both the factory and product sampling plan, ensuring samples (including water) and swabs are taken/collected as required and accurately logged on the relevant laboratory system.
12. Support in the updating of production/Technical documentation.
13. Attendance at the site taste panels. Supporting their running in times of absence.
14. Feed into the Shift hand over log, ensuring learnings, issues etc are clearly captured and shared with the next shift.

Required experience/expertise to succeed as a QA Auditor will include:

1. QA experience across a fast moving chilled environment.
2. Experience of working to retailer codes of practise.
3. Experience in QA systems, both implementing and continually improving them.

What you get in return:
Great package with competitive holiday allowance
Life assurance of minimum two times yearly salary
Opportunities for development and internal promotion
Staff shop
Share Save scheme
Free car parking on site
Enhanced Maternity/Paternity