Role: Quality Auditor
Salary: £30,000
Work pattern: 3pm – 12am (Monday – Friday)
Location: Northamptonshire
About the role
An exciting opportunity to join a well-established food manufacturing business based in Northamptonshire as a Quality Auditor as a member of their site technical team. This role will focus on ensuring food safety, quality, and to maintain compliance standards.
Responsibilities
- Provide guidance to Operations on Food Safety, Quality, Legality, and Integrity.
- Conduct audits (CCP, GMP) to ensure compliance with standards.
- Monitor product quality, assembly, and adherence to factory specifications.
- Manage raw material intake, status control, and report non-conformances.
- Maintain product status and stock accuracy within systems.
- Carry out microbiological, allergen, protein, and DNA sampling and testing.
- Submit and manage laboratory samples, including re-testing of out-of-spec results.
- Perform cleaning validation and hygiene verification activities.
- Maintain QA databases, logs, and documentation accurately.
- Produce reports for audited areas as required.
- Ensure compliance with BRC, GMP and internal quality standards.
Experience and Skills
- Experience in food manufacturing production.
- Strong knowledge of HACCP, GMP and CCP.
- Strong knowledge of food safety and quality standards.
- Strong knowledge of BRC standards.
- Strong communication skills.
- Raw materials expertise.
- Strong decision-making skills.
- Knowledge of internal auditing (BRC).