Quality Assurance Auditor

Greencore Group plc; West Drayton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food manufacturer in the UK is seeking a Quality Assurance Auditor to ensure compliance with hygiene standards and quality systems. You'll monitor critical control points and conduct internal audits while supporting training for factory personnel. Ideal candidates have experience in food manufacturing and a strong attention to detail. The role offers a competitive salary, benefits like pension contributions, life insurance, and opportunities for career development.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Holidays

Pension up to 8% matched

Life insurance up to 4x salary

Employee discount platform

Wellbeing Centre access

Enhanced parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Experience within a food manufacturing environment is ideal.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, chilled environment.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and audit critical control points and hygiene standards.
• Conduct internal audits to ensure compliance with standards.
• Investigate non-conformances and implement corrective actions.

Skills

Attention to detail

Food hygiene practices

Health & Safety practices

Education

GCSE or equivalent in Literacy and Numeracy

Job description

Shift

5 days out of 7 / day shift

Pay Rate

£15.00

Quality Assurance Auditor

Why Greencore?

We’re one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better.

As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we’re proud to employ over 13,300 talented colleagues across 16 manufacturing sites and 17 distribution depots throughout the UK. Together, we bring delicious food to life, from sandwiches, and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles, and ready meals. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve revenues of £1.95bn.

Our extensive direct-to-store (DTS) network, with 17 depots nationwide, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring our customers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

Here at Heathrow, we have a team of around 400 colleagues. We produce gluten free sandwiches and ready to eat or reheat sandwiches, wraps and other bread-based products, salads and ready meals for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Asda, Aldi, Co-op, Lidl, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose.

What you’ll be doing

• Monitor and audit CCPs (Critical Control Points), their checks and records
• Monitor & audit pre-requisite systems and control procedures forming part of the site QMS
• Audit personnel, environment & equipment hygiene standards prior to and during production
• Carry out investigative swabs to monitor hygiene standards and investigate out of specification results
• Conduct internal audits of products and processes to ensure compliance with procedures and standards and continually improve in line with industry best practices & customer requirements.
• Conduct in-house audits to ensure compliance
• Carry out trend analysis of site information (non-conformances, complaints, out of spec results, internal foreign bodies etc.) and use to target improvements
• Investigate, communicate & implement corrective action following internal or external non-conformances, or out of specification micro results, nutritional results, customer complaints etc.
• Action quality and process improvements, carrying out investigations, traceability, liaising with other departments / suppliers to ensure non-compliances are closed fully & followed up.
• Monitor and audit start up checks to ensure issues are resolved within risk assessed & agreed timescales, liaising with relevant departments (taking photo standards, updating documents when new machinery introduced).
• Carry out coaching, training and ongoing education of factory personnel at all levels in relation to food safety & quality systems

What we’re looking for

Full training will be provided if successful in this role but are looking for the following knowledge and experience:

• Ideally experience within a food manufacturing environment or similar environment
• GCSE or equivalent standard in Literacy and Numeracy
• Ability to work in a fast past, chilled environment
• Practices in Health & Safety and Food Hygiene
• CCP training including HACCP principles
• Allergen Awareness and Microbiological Awareness
• Accuracy and pays attention to detail

At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together we make everyday taste better.

If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.

What you’ll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
• Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.

Please note due to high numbers of applications this role may be closed before the posted closing date.