Quality Auditor - Nights

Posted 02 May 2025
Salary 15.09
LocationWisbech
Job type Permanent - Full Time
Discipline Production
Reference032989
Job FunctionOperations
Expiry date 02 June 2025

Job description

Night shift QA Monday to Friday 19:00 to 03:00

£15.09ph

Why Greencore?

We are a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make every day taste better.

We supply all of the major supermarkets in the UK. We also supply convenience and travel retail outlets, discounters, coffee shops, foodservice and other retailers. We have strong market positions in a range of categories including sandwiches, salads, sushi, chilled snacking, chilled ready meals, chilled soups and sauces, chilled quiche, ambient sauces and pickles, and frozen Yorkshire Puddings. We have 16 world-class manufacturing sites and 17 distribution centres in the UK, with industry-leading technology and supply chain capabilities. We generated revenues of £1.8bn in FY24 and employ 13,300 people. We are headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

For further information go to www.greencore.com or follow Greencore on social media.

Here at Wisbech, we have a team of 525 colleagues and manufacture premium chilled ready to cook meals for major retailers such as Sainsbury’s, Aldi and Co-op.

 

What you'll be doing 

As Quality Assurance on nights, you will verify that raw material preparation, manufacturing production and product storage/distribution is compliant with food safety, legal and customers’ quality standards.

What you’ll be doing;

  • 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 standards
  • 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 Health Safety and Environment policy
  • Follow daily schedule of work
  • Escalation of non-conformances in a timely manner to the appropriate manager

What we’re looking for;

Educated to GCSE or equivalent standard with numeracy and literacy skill

*       Able to work with basic computer programmes such as Microsoft Office applications

*       Holds a Health and Safety level two and a food hygiene level two qualification

*       CCP training including HACCP principles for Manufacturing Unit

*        Experience and understanding of internal audit processes

*        Has an understanding of allergen awareness and the associated risk

*       Has a knowledge of GMP techniques

*       Understands non-conformance reporting techniques

*       Microbiological awareness – understanding of basic of food safety

*       Has and understanding of basic disinfection principles, basic legal labelling practice and basic weight legislation

 

What you’ll get in return

  • Holidays
  • Pension
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Employee appreciation events
  • Company share save scheme
  • Greencore Qualifications
  • Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
  • Canteen
  • Onsite staff shop
  • Free onsite car park

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