Quality Auditor Supervisor
An exciting opportunity has arisen as part of a rapidly developing convenience food-to-go manufacturer due to the fast organic growth of the business. We now wish to support our vision and mission further by the appointment of a new Quality Auditor. The company is a private family-owned food-to-go manufacturer in London supplying retail clients and foodservice operators with a range of chilled ready to eat products.
The role
To ensure product quality assurance, legality, safety and authenticity throughout the process of manufacturing
To ensure all products produced are safe, legal and authentic and meet customer requirements and expectation.
To ensure GMP are fully complied
Essential Skills
Excellent attention to detail
Min Level 3 HACCP training
Experience in food safety, legality, quality and authenticity aspects of food
Desirable
A bachelor Food degree or equivalent education.
Main Responsibilities:
Monitoring product quality along the production lines to the agreed specifications.
To carry out GMP audits
Ensuring the production line staff adhere to good manufacturing & good hygiene practices, including line clean downs / product change-overs / allergen control.
Ensuring mixes and finished products are produced as per specification and traceability paperwork is always completed.
To carry out regular on line product weight and quality checks for each product type, providing feedback to the team and ensuring appropriate corrective action is taken.
Ensuring appropriate resources are available for the team including product specifications, portioning and personal protective equipment.
To ensure that Critical Control Points (CCP’s) are adhered to by all production staff and any failures are reported to the Technical/Quality Management and the relevant corrective actions implemented.
To carry out metal detection verification and complete rejected metal log documentation according to procedure and report any non-conformances to Technical/Quality Management.
To carry out random checks in the allocation/labelling area to ensure that product labels, date coding, product label placement as well as packaging seals are correct.
To verify chiller/freezer temperatures against displayed temperatures.
Dealing with customer complaints.
To provide holiday cover for QAAs when they go on holidays.
To conduct internal and external GMP audits with the assistance of other area managers.
Conducting taste panel and communicate to management team.
To assist in staff training and ensure induction and training systems are maintained.
To support the New Product Development in ensuring the appropriate accreditation of the suppliers, development of specifications and the launch of products.
To collect micro samples for finished products, raw materials, WIP products, shelf life, water and carry-out swabbing on floors, drains, equipment and hands, and do air plates according to micro schedule. To ensure that all samples are registered and sent to laboratory for testing;
To ensure out of micro results are retested according to the procedure in the place;
To document all process deviations and non-conforming products by raising non-conformances, concession, hold note and supplier non-conformances and follow all those for proper corrective actions. All process deviation and non-confirming products must be recorded on the relevant logs;
To deal with daily troubleshooting;
To ensure that shift handover will be done properly and shift report will be completed accurately; and
To ensure all daily documents and paperwork are checked, verified and filed.
To conduct daily/weekly/monthly audits and checks. To ensure that all issues and non-conformances raised during the audits and routine checks are raised with relevant department’s heads and all corrective actions are followed and implemented.
To organise taste panels to ensure attendance is at a high level from the required departments.
To ensure the taste panel issues are reported and to ensure that taste panel results are entered into the database.