Quality Auditor - Maidstone, United Kingdom - Grupo Bimbo UK Ltd

Grupo Bimbo UK Ltd

Verified Company

Maidstone, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Location:
Aylesford, Maidstone

Working Pattern:
Sunday to Thursday 9am - 5pm

Reports To:
Quality Manager

Come join the World's largest Bakery business that prides itself on producing tasty products to the highest standards of food safety and quality in a safe yet busy multi-cultural environment.

Job Purpose:
To ensure the company meets customer and legislative food safety and quality requirement.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Managing corrective and preventative actions for nonconformances, carry out root cause analysis and ensure NCs are closed within the timescale and verify the effectiveness.
Ensure that QMS documentation is audited for accurate completion, maintained, and controlled via the document control procedure.
Ensure that all deviations from specification are reported, actioned, documented via the Nonconformance Procedure, or agreed via the Concession procedure.
To complete and investigate customer complaints including preparation, the investigation, reporting the key actions and following up, including sending communication to the customer.
Ensuring independent process and product checks are completed in each area according to the schedule and relevant actions taken if out of the limits or specification given.
Complete and organize the taste panel and/or buyback sessions and that any out of specification results are followed up diligently.
Ensure Shelflife samples are collected accurately and tested at end of life for mold or organoleptic against the organoleptic schedule.
Play active role in 3rd party and customer audits (present information to the auditor)
Conducting traceability exercises (present information to the auditor) to internal and external auditors.
To complete GMP audits including preparation, the audit, reporting the key actions and following up.
Glass & Hard Plastic register verification including follow up.
To complete CCP audits including preparation, the audit, reporting the key actions and following up.
To complete Internal Audits including preparation, the audit, reporting the key actions and following up.
An understanding of the Bakery HACCP system.
To know all Critical Control Points and the associated process for checking them.
To identify Food Safety risks i.e. foreign body, chemical or microbiological risks and to either take the appropriate corrective/preventative action or ensure it is reported accurately to the business.
To train and verify the training of the CCP's to relevant team members.
To understand and implement the Allergen awareness, procedures and controls.
To maintain and meet the analysis schedule for using the appropriate systems and sampling.
To maintain and meet the current Nutritional schedule using the appropriate systems and sampling.
To maintain and meet the current Allergen Testing schedule using the appropriate system.
To ensure that all costs associated with the Laboratory testing are documented accurately.
To identify key Bakery Pests on site, reporting the key actions and following up.
To help drive the training through mentoring and being the quality and food safety expert on shift.
Drive standards and actively provides coaching to promote the food safety/quality culture within the business.

Skills and Qualifications:

Some quality assurance experience and/or relevant qualifications (food science, science, food safety).
Some experience of FMCG environment preferred.
The ability to organize and prioritize own workload
Hands on approach to improvement technical knowledge throughout the general plant population.
Methodical and logical approach to improvements, with a keen eye for detail.
Proactive and flexible approach to work and training
Good communication skills