Quality Assurance jobs in United Kingdom

Salary: Competitive

Benefits: Highly competitive rewards package, staff shop and excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group

Location: Holbeach

Ways of Working: Site Based

Shift: 3's & 2's shift pattern, 06:00 -18:00

Contract Type: Permanent

We're proud to offer you a career with a global leader in the fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to give everyone the opportunity and support to develop and progress their career. To nurture talent, fuel ambition and work with resilience and purpose to achieve the highest possible standards.

This fantastic opportunity will be based at our Bakkavor Pizza site in Holbeach St Marks, Lincolnshire. The site specialises in making chilled pizzas and is 11 miles from Spalding, 13.5 miles from Boston, 18 miles from Wisbech, 23 miles from King's Lynn and 29 miles from Peterborough.

Working as part of a wider team of QA Auditors and reporting directly in to our Quality Assurance Supervisors, you will play a key role in ensuring that our site continues to meet all quality and technical standards set nationally and by our grocery retailer partners. As one of our QA Auditors, you will audit, monitor, improve and evaluate quality systems and procedures and provide technical support for the operational teams as well as maintaining and promoting technical and quality standards in line with business needs and customer requirements will be a key focus. In this position you will work on a permanent day shift which will include some weekend working as set by the rota. As well as welcoming applications from from a quality or technical background, we would also like to encourage applications from candidates who have operational or line experience within food production/manufacturing who wish to develop their career. If you have excellent attention to detail, are process driven and can use your initiative to prioritise your workload and problem solve we would like to hear from you. Full training on internal quality processes is provided to the successful candidate.

• To audit compliance against Quality Management Systems, GMP and HACCP controls, raising all non-conformances against relevant standards with objective evidence.
• Effectively communicating to enable the operational teams to take the appropriate and necessary corrective action - then following up and monitoring completion of actions.
• Understanding the site traceability system to complete audits to demonstrate compliance and retrieve information for investigation purposes.
• Take samples (micro, nutritional, swab and organoleptic) against specific schedules and communicate the progress in a timely manner.
• Prepare and facilitate taste panels in accordance with procedure - ensuring that all results are accurately recorded and communicated to site.
• Calibration of measurement equipment in accordance with schedules and procedures.
• Assist the QA Supervisor in carrying out full investigations on specifications (micro and nutritional), complaints and incidents.
• Support NPD trials and product launches, assisting in micro testing and product life assessment to ensure products are manufactured to the correct standard as necessary.
• Providing technical support and advice to the factory team in the event of customer visit or audit.
• Coordination of day to day activities to deliver improvement of Technical KPIs.
• Operate in a safe working manner and support the site/business on continuous improvement relating to health, safety, and the environment.

Ideally you will have some professional experience within a similar Technical/QA role in a food environment but skills can be taught and if you have the enthusiasm and drive to develop within quality assurance this is an excellent first role. Understanding the chain of custody within the food environment and a background of working on small to mid-sized quality improvement projects, such as implementing new procedures and defining new supporting documentation - will be key. You will be an excellent communicator who can work alone with a proactive and innovative approach to problem solving. You will always adopt a thorough and diligent approach to every task and you will be able to demonstrate our key values of customer care, can-do, teamwork and not just getting it right but keeping it right.

• Life Assurance (1 x salary)
• 23 days holiday
• Private medical insurance (after 5 years' service)
• Staff Shop
• Stakeholder Pension Scheme
• Discount & cashback platform
• Personal Accident Insurance
• Free health check
• Employee Assistance Programme
• A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans)
• Salary sacrifice car lease scheme
• Free independent mortgage advice
• Discounted tutoring for children
• Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary
• Free car parking - Site dependant

We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! At Bakkavor, we are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive, and we believe that diversity makes us stronger. We welcome and encourage applications from all backgrounds and ensure fair, transparent recruitment practices. Learn more about our commitment in our Inclusion and Diversity Policy ( Inclusion & Diversity Policy ).

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