Role title: Quality Auditor PM Shift
Salary: Competitive
Shift: 2 PM to 10 PM (with Flexibility)
Location: Estate Road, Grimsby

About us:
We are a company that takes pride in our people as it is our people who are at the centre of everything that we do.
We have multi-category expertise with a focus on quality and innovation. We deliver what customers need and consumers want with expert taste and growth mindset.
Our business began with meat, and we've developed and extend a market-leading expertise within Seafood, with unmatched quality globally. We're always investing in new technology to deliver more value, efficiency and consumer-led innovative solutions.

What we are looking for:
We are looking for a professional and experienced Quality Auditor to join our growing Technical team. As a Quality Auditor you will drive compliance and improvement across all site processes and products by supporting in the production of safe and legal products. The right candidate will maintain and continually improve the site technical standards set internally, by Hilton Food Group and our retail customers and to be ambassadors in driving the Quality Culture across site.

Key responsibilities as a Quality Auditor will be to:
- Deputise for the QA Supervisor in periods of absence.
- Mentor & support the training of key production staff in food safety procedures.
- Drive food safety & GMP standards across low risk and high risk areas (ER2 only), supporting the listeria management plan.
- Manage the set up and programming of MD's, X-rays (where applicable), & checkweighers for new and current products ensuring optimum settings for the products.
- Support in the investigation and data gathering for internal incidents allowing for robust risk assessments and preventative actions.
- Support the coding, label management and verification processes. Highlighting issues immediately to the relevant department and ensuring additional processes are in place to ensure accuracy.
- Conduct cross checks across production paperwork and verification of CCP records ensuring that errors/ training issues, are highlighted and shared across shifts and that any deviations are fully investigated back to root cause, to support continuous improvement and minimise reoccurrences.
- Ensure compliance to both the factory and product sampling plan, ensuring samples (including water) and swabs are taken/collected as required and accurately logged on the relevant laboratory system.
- Conduct 'Value adding' GMP, post hygiene & compliance audits that demonstrate both compliance and continuous improvement across site.Ensure there is clear communication of both results and action plans across the factory floor.
- Conduct CCP audits and to cascade and share the results to the wider teams within the DRM meetings.
- Support in the update and issuing of internal specifications and the approval of new specifications as part of the NPD process.
- Support in the updating of production/Technical documentation and issuing out to relevant departments ensuring the correct version is always in use.
- Be part of the sites HACCP and TACCP teams
- Support the implementation of customer codes of practise, ensuring internal ways of working accurately reflect them.
- Ensure compliance to the allergen verification and segregation controls/procedures across site.
- Quarantine non-conforming stock, both systematically and physically in accordance with site procedures and processes.
- Issue & authorise concessions where deviations from process can not be controlled. Adopting root cause analysis to ensure these deviations do not become standard practise and ensuring major deviations are escalated for approval.
- Support the Quality Management in completion of the annual validations against the defined schedule.
- Conduct the monthly Glass and hard plastic checks. Highlighting areas of non-compliance both to the relevant department and within the DRM
- Conduct traceability exercises in accordance with the pre-defined schedule. Capture learnings and share findings with the wider team. Be part of the team involved in delivering this information during external audits and customer visits.
- Provide the relevant documentation required to support the full investigation of customer complaints, including process traceability paperwork identifying any factory corrective and preventative actions. Ensure this information Is returned in a timely manner that allows complaint response within the required timelines.
- Conduct compliance and improvement audits against both BRC and customer codes of practise in accordance to the required schedule. Ensure results are published and the non-conformances closed within the defined timeline.
- File QA paperwork in a manner that aids accurate retention and quick and easy retrieval. Online process checks to be verified.
- Support Continuous improvement projects both across the Technical/Quality department and across the wider business
- Attend NPD trials and produce reports that highlight learnings and potential improvements to be taken forward into the next trials. Share these findings both with the NPD team and within the DRM's.
- Attend the DRM's sharing Technical KPI's as appropriate.
- Participation in and leading of the sites Quality improvement processes i.e. spec checks, foreign body awareness. Capturing and cascading the results.
- Attendance at the site taste panels. Supporting their running in times of absence.
- Feed into the Shift hand over log, ensuring learnings, issues etc are clearly captured and shared with the next shift.

Required experience/expertise to succeed as a Quality Auditor will include:
- QA experience across a fast-moving chilled environment
- Experience of working to retailer codes of practise
- Experience in QA systems, both implementing and continually improving them.

What you get in return:
- Great package with competitive holiday allowance
- Life assurance of minimum two times yearly salary
- Opportunities for development and internal promotion
- Share Save scheme
- Free car parking on site
- Subsidised canteen
- Enhanced Maternity/Paternity

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