Quality Auditor | £27,973 base salary | Night shift | Chichester
We’re excited to be recruiting a Quality Auditor to join our team at the Merston Factory, in Chichester Food Park!
In this role, you’ll play a key part in safeguarding both food safety and product quality, ensuring our systems, processes, and procedures meet the highest standards. You’ll carry out audits, champion best practice in GMP, and make sure we not only meet but exceed internal, customer, and industry requirements. You’ll also take ownership of closing out any non-conformances, driving continuous improvement across the site.
Shift pattern
We operate a days only shift pattern covering 7pm to 7pam, night shift. You will work a total of 14 days over a 28-day period. Typically you would be working as follows:
Week 1 - Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday
Week 2 - Wednesday & Thursday
You will earn £2,323 on top of your annual salary for working the night shift.
What you get from us Base salary of £27,973
Night shift allowance
Overtime available
Employer matched pension up to 5%
Health cash plan
Flexible benefits including; Corporate gym discounts, shopping discounts, enhanced maternity & paternity policy and many more
Access to online GP & life assurance
Responsibilities
Key responsibilities Ensure that the product quality & safety standards are always maintained and that the product that is manufactured meets the customer’s specification and is legally compliant in all aspects
Ensure that our factories are always audit ready and the strict GMP standards are maintained throughout the manufacturing site
Conduct scheduled auditing of safety, legality and GMP standards of the site
Carry out regular documented checks on all areas and lines of manufacture and packing, including paperwork checks to ensure correct completion
Carry out validation and verification of processes according to schedule
Monitor lines during production and report any issues in relation to quality or product safety
Carry out sampling, checks, tests, swabbing and other conformance requirements according to required schedules, including logging of samples into laboratory system
Conduct documented investigations and close out non-conformances, using root cause analysis
Prepare, audit and file paperwork for lines & mixing room
Set up and conduct daily quality assessments, including feedback and trending for operational team
Control & documentation of on hold and other non-conforming products
Experience required QA or similar experience working within the food industry, ideally experience in short shelf-life products
Food safety Level 2
HACCP
Basic understanding of Microbiology
Knowledge of GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) and Food Safety compliance
Working knowledge of Auditing techniques
Computer literate, good oral and written communication skills
Nature’s Way Foods is the leading manufacturer of prepared salads, coleslaw and “food-to-go” for supermarkets and retailers, and as such we work closely with farmers across Europe. But there’s lots more to us than the products we make.
Our culture is inclusive, and our people are diverse spanning 39 different languages. We operate four manufacturing facilities capable of producing over 400m units per year. It is an exciting time to join Nature’s Way Foods as we are growing rapidly and there are genuine opportunities to progress within the organisation.
Interested?
Click apply, submitting an up-to-date CV. We look forward to hearing from you.
At Nature's Way Food, we believe that diversity and inclusion are key to driving innovation and achieving excellence. We are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to reach their full potential. We are dedicated to building a diverse team that reflects the communities we serve and the world we live in.
Join us in our mission to create a more inclusive and fairer world. Together, we can become best at fresh.
