Quality Auditor

Allied Bakeries are owned by Associated British Foods. ABF is a diversified international food, ingredients and retail group with sales of £20.1bn and 138,000 employees in 56 countries. It has significant businesses in Europe, Africa, the Americas, Asia and Australia. Our sister companies in ABF UK Grocery produce products under many market-leading household brands, including Jordans, Ryvita, Pataks, Blue Dragon & Silver Spoon.

We are proud of our brands: we make top 10 UK grocery brand Kingsmill as well as Allinson’s, Bürgen and Sunblest. You’ll know us best through our white, wholemeal and seeded market-leading loaves, as well as Kingsmill 50/50, the nation’s favourite Healthier White, and our delicious pancakes, crumpets, hot cross buns and other bakery products.

The success of our business depends on us having the right people on the team. We are incredibly passionate about our business, but it isn’t for the faint‑hearted – it’s pacey and demanding so our people need to have a positive attitude and to want to work inclusively. We take massive pride in what we do, not least in how colleagues based in our bakeries and depots have one of the best safety performance records in the industry.

Our Grocery Service Centre, based near Liverpool, is a hub for transactional activity across multiple ABF companies within the ABF Grocery division. Supporting some of our well‑known brands such as Kingsmill, Pataks, Blue Dragon, Jordans, Ryvita and Silver Spoon, among others. We deliver Shared Service activities across a wide range of disciplines including Customer Services, Consumer Care, Finance, Payroll, HR and IS.

If you’re looking to join a business that is passionate, encourages you to be the best you can be, and values its people, we’d love to hear from you.

Location:

Stevenage

Salary: £31,000 per annum

We have an exciting role in our Technical Team at our Stevenage Bakery where you will be responsible for establishing and maintaining product quality and food safety through process monitoring, auditing, problem solving and communicating to individuals at all levels within the organisation. As part of your role, you will monitor and audit the manufacturing processes within the manufacturing environment in order to provide qualitative and quantitative analysis of the processes, from there develop and recommend action plans to improve the processes.

Safety First! To support and be actively involved in improving and maintaining a safe working environment by ensuring that team members and employees are fully aware and comply with all Health and Safety standards, company and legal requirements.

• To carry out HACCP validation and verification checks
• Ensuring product is manufactured having taken all reasonable precautions to prevent Foreign Body contamination of all descriptions
• Create and deliver appropriate training
• To carry regular audits and follow up on corrective actions
• Support in managing Food Safety incidents

• To carry out process audits as defined within the ABSS requirements
• Complete audits of finished product quality
• Sampling of products to ensure Product Quality and shelf life
• Maintaining the QSM
• To carry out environmental monitoring and working with the Hygiene department to implement corrective actions

• To collate daily weights information and ensure any corrective actions required are carried out
• To review checkweigher performance daily and arrange for any remedial/corrective actions to be carried out

• To continuously analyse and look for trends in all areas of the technical team scope
• To feedback regularly and suggest and implement solutions that arise
• To be involved in project work as required
• To initiate CI projects to improve systems or solve problems

• Will have previous experience of working in a technical department preferably in a Food Manufacturing environment
• Experience leading project involving multi-disciplinary teams is desirable.
• Team player with excellent organisation and planning skills.
• Ability to influence and communicate effectively at all levels.
• Professional approach and a self‑starter and willing to learn new…