Job Description:

Quality Auditor

• Annual Salary: £31,000
• Location: Leeds
• Job Type: Full-time

This role is crucial in assuring factory GMP and legal standards as specified in the Quality Management System (QMS). The Quality Auditor will support manufacturing operations to ensure right first-time production by working closely with all personnel to drive continuous improvement of product, process, and people.

Day-to-day of the role:

• Ensure all company quality parameters and procedures are complied with and that all products manufactured meet the required standards and specifications.
• Conduct structured GMP/Hygiene/Compliance/HACCP audits of process & packing operations to ensure adherence to procedures & protocols, customer requirements, and provide corrective actions when necessary.
• Schedule and allocate the site's internal audit program and maintain the site internal audit schedule.
• Issue Non-Conformance Reports and manage the associated database, ensuring that NCR corrective actions are completed in a timely manner and are verified for effectiveness.
• Conduct audits in line with the internal audit schedule.
• Investigate all instances of failure to ensure corrective and preventative actions are captured.
• Verify all actions raised throughout the pest control programme.
• Maintain the site allergen and vegan validation and verification schedules.
• Coordinate and document the site allergen validation exercises.
• Provide cover for the complaints department during absence, sickness, or holidays.
• Update internal audit templates where advised by relevant department post review of customer COP.
• Provide technical information and advice to Engineering/Production Operatives.
• Continually monitor products by reviewing the product through the production flow.
• Maintain, with others, technical operating standards and functionality.
• Act as a source of knowledge of ingredient and plant functionality to achieve optimum output working with the area team to improve quality and efficiency targets.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Proven experience in a similar role, ideally within the food manufacturing industry.
• Strong knowledge of industry standards & regulations, ingredients, packaging, processing, and plant functionality.
• Excellent organisational and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Commitment to maintaining high safety, quality, and hygiene standards.