Quality Assurance Auditor

Position: Quality Assurance Auditor - Days
Shift Pattern - Day shift - Sunday to Thursday - 6am to 2:30pm
Rate of pay - £14.74 Per Hour

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, soups, 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 Manton Wood, we have a team of around 1,700 colleagues. We produce sandwiches and wraps for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Co-op, Asda, Morrisons, Boots, Aldi and Lidl. Our Manton Wood site has a gym, restaurant with hot food and a staff shop available to all our colleagues.

What you'll be doing

To ensure their line's compliance and adherence to relevant Technical and Operational processes and procedure
To support the line in maintaining the highest standards of product safety, quality, and demonstrating effective compliance with all legal requirements
To comply with the site's management systems and all aspects of the company operations that have an influence on the quality and safety of the products we provide to our customers
These systems draw on the relevant aspects of the quality manual, to ensure the products supplied are safe and legal in accordance with current legislation including HACCP
Sample, test, audit and monitor to verify that all processes, procedures and products are being manufactured in a safe and compliant manner
Conduct verification checks to ensure equipment is suitably calibrated to comply with required standard
Complete all necessary documentation ensuring that it is kept accurate and ready for internal and external audits and highlighting when non-conformance requires corrective action
Maintain ongoing communications with the operations team and other relevant functions ensuring they are fully aware of quality assurance activities, results and trends
Collect all relevant samples, with adherence to procedures and protocols, to ensure quality, safety and legality of products sampled
Provide education and training to operational colleagues and other teams to ensure compliance with all relevant technical standards
Ensure that a safe working environment exists for all colleagues and that as a minimum the department meets the standards set out in the safety, health and environment policy
Support the production line in its adherence to CCPs
Ensure allergen segregation procedures are followed for; raw materials arriving at the line, through use and on return to Prep.

Verify materials coming to the line comply with key safety parameters; shelf-life, temperatures
Complete line technical documents, such as weight check sheets
Verify materials coming to the line comply with key legal parameters, traceability information, labelling, product and material weights
Complete and record on-line quality taste panels
Verify correct production methods / procedure adherence; products specification and QAS document are in use on-line
Complete process confirmation activities around allergen and non-allergen clean downs
Escalation of Quality issues
Complete LCM 3% compliance checks
Verify materials coming to the line comply with key quality parameters, such as visual appearance
Support the line with collect and return of correct production and cleaning tools
Product and equipment handling on their lines
Support the Line controller in challenging colleague compliance to key GMP and personal hygiene standards; such as PPE wearing
Previous experience within a Quality Auditor role would be an advantage however we can offer full support and training

What we're looking for
We're not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.

GCSE or equivalent standard; numerate and literate
Basic Computer literate for standard office practices
Health and Safety - level Two
Food hygiene - level Two
CCP training including HACCP principles for Manufacturing Unit
Internal Audit Process;
Understanding and Experience
Allergen Awareness;
Understanding of risk
GMP;
Knowledge of techniques
Non-conformance reporting techniques
Microbiological awareness - understanding of basic of food safety
Basic disinfection principles
Basic legal labelling practice
Basic weight legislation

These may be trained or developed. These do not all need to be in place at recruitment.

We're not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We…