Quality Auditor

Salary: £(phone number removed)

Working Pattern:
Monday to Friday, Site-based role, 7:00am-7:00pm / 7:00pm-7:00am, 3 on - 3 off with a 2-week rotation between days and nights

This BRC accredited food manufacturing business is looking for a proactive and personable Quality Auditor to join their team.

The person will play a key role in supporting the site's food safety and quality systems, ensuring that processes, documentation and production standards consistently meet internal, legal and retailer requirements. Working closely with Production, Hygiene and Technical teams, you will help maintain strong factory standards through auditing, monitoring and proactive investigation.

This is a hands‑on technical role with strong visibility across the factory floor, ideal for someone who is confident raising issues and committed to protecting food safety and product quality.

• Conduct internal audits across the site including GMP, CCP / OPRP, allergen control, foreign body prevention, glass & hard plastics, hygiene, process audits and traceability
• Support and maintain the HACCP system, ensuring controls are consistently followed
• Log non-conformances and carry out root cause analysis to support corrective actions
• Carry out positive product release checks, including visual, measurement and sensory assessments
• Review factory food safety documentation including CCP and OPRP paperwork
• Conduct basic laboratory testing including pH testing, ATP swabs and microbiological swabs where required
• Support complaint investigations and wider quality improvement activities across the site
• Monitor raw material quality and highlight any issues through the non-conformance process
• Work closely with production teams to maintain food safety, quality and hygiene standards
• Prepare and report quality data to support daily, weekly and monthly performance monitoring

• Opportunity to join a collaborative technical team within a fast‑paced food manufacturing environment
• Exposure to major UK retailer food safety and compliance standards
• Participation in daily meetings, providing visibility across the wider operation
• Ongoing training and development, including support to learn site‑specific processes and CCP controls
• The opportunity to develop your career within the wider technical and quality team

• Experience working within food manufacturing environments
• HACCP Level 2 or Level 3 qualification
• Experience conducting internal audits across food safety and quality systems
• Strong understanding of GMP, food safety controls and traceability processes
• Comfortable investigating issues and supporting root cause analysis
• Confident communicating findings and raising potential risks where necessary

This is more than a quality auditing role. It is an opportunity to play an important part in protecting food safety, supporting operational teams and ensuring the highest standards are consistently maintained across the factory.

If you are a proactive technical professional who enjoys investigating issues, raising standards and working closely with production teams, we would love to hear from you.