Quality Auditor Team Leader

About The Role

Join the Samworth Brothers Team and become part of our dynamic family!

At Samworth Brothers, we genuinely care about our colleagues and strive to create an engaging environment that values your unique contributions. We are committed to your success and offer a range of exceptional benefits that we believe supports your life and personal aspirations:

• Enhanced pension scheme
• Private health scheme
• Employee discount scheme
• Experience annual pay reviews
• Profit related pay
• Unlock your potential through training and growth opportunities

The Opportunity

In this role you will be managing and coordinating all quality assurance activities for the shift. You will liaise with production, hygiene and engineering throughout the shift to ensure that technical issues and non-conformances are understood and necessary actions are taken. You will also identify trends and ongoing issues and discuss these with the QA and Technical Manager.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage small team of QAs during shift.
• Manage staff discipline, work performance and absence issues.
• Ensure appropriate skill levels are maintained within the team.
• Responsible for rejection of non-conforming product and communication thereof to all relevant managers and stock control.
• Ensure all non-conformances and issues raised by the team during the shift are followed up by reviewing or re-auditing with the QAs to ensure satisfactory corrective action has been taken.
• Identify, highlight and communicate reoccurring issues or issues not satisfactorily addressed within agreed timescales to QA manager and Technical Manager.

The Ideal Candidate

We believe that success is built upon collaboration and diverse perspectives. At Samworth Brothers, we welcome candidates who are passionate about working together to achieve greatness. As a valued member of our team, you will bring the following skills and experience:

• Minimum requirement is Advanced food hygiene; a degree in a relevant subject would be an advantage but is not essential.
• RIPH level 2 or equivalent Intermediate Certificate in Applied HACCP Principles is desirable.
• Experience in a technical role within food manufacturing (preferably chilled but not essential).
• Good IT knowledge.
• Competent in written English and Maths.

We also want you to thrive in an engaging and inclusive work culture where you will have the opportunity to take on personal accountability and take pride in your work. We encourage positive communication, and the building of strong collaborative relationships is essential to every role.

Join us at Samworth Brothers, where you'll be more than just a team member – you'll be an integral part of our thriving family. Apply today and embark on an exciting journey with us!

About Us

We are a fourth-generation family business producing high quality own-label products for many of the UK’s best-known retailers along with our own brands including Ginsters, Soreen, Higgidy, Dickinson & Morris, Urban Eat, West Cornwall Pasty Company and Walker & Son. We employ over 10,000 people in well-invested modern food manufacturing sites around the country.

At Samworth Brothers, we take pride in our family feel within our businesses and work together to make things happen. We can offer you the stability of a wider group as well as the opportunities that that offers if you wish to progress your career with us. We are family and we would like to invite you to be part of that and support our teams in delivering great products to all of our customers.

Samworth Brothers do not engage with unlicensed gangmasters or third parties. Samworth Brothers will NEVER ask you for money in order to provide you with employment. If you are in any doubt, please contact an official Samworth Brothers representative.