QA Auditor

We’re looking for a QA Auditor to join our Technical team at our Nottingham site and play a key role in maintaining the highest standards of food safety, quality, legality and customer compliance.

At The Compleat Food Group, we’re proud to be a food business built on purpose and passion. Formed in 2021, we’re on a mission to create

Food to Feel Good – great quality, tasty and affordable food that people love to eat.

We’re home to some of the UK’s most exciting and loved food brands, including

Wall’s Pastry, Pork Farms, Wrights, The Real Yorkshire Pudding Co., unearthed, Vadasz, Squeaky Bean, Palace Culture, and Harvey & Brockless. Alongside our branded portfolio, we’re a leading supplier of delicious own-label pastry, sweet bakery, party food, olives and antipasti, added-value egg products, continental meats, dips and sauces and plant-based food to the UK’s major retailers, as well as across food service.

Withover 6,000 talented colleagues across 17 sites, and an annual turnover of £1.3bn, we’re united by a shared ambition to shape the future of food for the better.

We are backed by European private equity firm PAI Partners.

Nottingham

Weeks 1 and 2: Wednesday to Friday: 6am–6pm and Saturday: 8am–4pm Every 3rd week: Thursday and Friday: 6am–6pm and Saturday: 8am–4pm

As a QA Auditor, you’ll provide professional and effective technical and quality support to the factory, helping to drive high standards of food safety and GMP across the site.

You’ll play an important role in ensuring our quality systems are followed and business requirements are met, while building strong and positive relationships with customers, suppliers and colleagues.

Maintain and enhance relationships with all departments, fostering teamwork and effective communication.

• Detailed communication records available for site use at all times.

Conduct daily factory walk rounds, working closely with the operations team to meet and maintain high GMP standards. This includes performing in-depth hygiene inspections on equipment, leading to improved factory standards and valuable feedback from the operations team.

• Daily walk rounds carried out.
• Improved factory standards.
• Feedback from the operations team.

To support the production teams and other departmental functions in resolving quality issues. Detailed investigations are crucial for timely issue closure and a reduction in quality incidents.

• Detailed investigations completed as necessary.
• Timely closure of issues
• Reduction in quality incidents
• Carry out daily taste panels as part of reviewing the quality of products.
• Taste panels carried out on time
• Products reviewed prior to panels and issues feedback to operations team as necessary
• Carry out routine tasks such as swabbing, air plates and product sampling in line with schedules in place, send to Lab and investigate OOS results.
• Sampling/testing carried out to schedule
• OOS Reports completed
• Carry out Pre Despatch Verification (PDV) checks.
• 4 hours checks carried out on time
• Reduction in issues due to accurate checks

Support the investigation into customer complaints including ability to carry our full traceability exercises.

• Completed complaints investigation reports
• Recall of product traceability

Support on site audits by third parties.

Carry out temperature monitoring and measurement for onsite temperature systems as required.

• Timely checks
• Completed records

Carry out scheduled calibration checks e.g. scales, belts etc.

• Checks carried out to schedule

Carry out and report scheduled internal audits and close of corrective actions.

• Audits carried out on time
• Close out of actions

Pick up ad hoc tasks and requests through the technical management team e.g.…