QA Auditor
| Posting date: | 20 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £27500-30500 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 July 2025 |
| Location: | Bourne, PE10 0AT |
| Company: | Bakkavor |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 25044-43469622 |
Summary
We're the biggest name you've never heard of. You've probably eaten our food
- you just didn't realise it. We make innovative fresh products, with around 18,500 colleagues working across the UK, US and China.
Quality Auditor
We're proud to be Bakkavor
Salary: Competitive
Location: Bourne, Lincolnshire, PE10 0AT (Site based role)
Ways of Working: Site based
Hours of work: 4 on 4 off / 06:00 – 18:00
Contract Type: Permanent
Why join us?
We’re proud to offer you a career with a global leader in the fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to give everyone the opportunity and support to develop and progress their career. To nurture talent, fuel ambition and work with resilience and purpose to achieve the highest possible standards.
About the role.
As one of our QA Auditors, you will audit, monitor, improve and evaluate quality systems and procedures and provide technical support for the operational teams as well as maintaining and promoting technical and quality standards in line with business needs and customer requirements will be a key focus.
Role Accountabilities:
- To audit compliance against Quality Management Systems, GMP and HACCP controls, raising all non-conformances against relevant standards with objective evidence.
- Understanding the site traceability system to complete audits to demonstrate compliance and retrieve information for investigation purposes.
- Take samples (micro, nutritional, swab and organoleptic) against specific schedules and communicate the progress in a timely manner.
- Prepare and facilitate taste panels in accordance with procedure
- ensuring that all results are accurately recorded and communicated to site.
- Calibration of measurement equipment in accordance with schedules and procedures.
- Support NPD trials and product launches, assisting in micro testing and product life assessment to ensure products are manufactured to the correct standard as necessary.
- Providing technical support and advice to the factory team in the event of customer visit or audit.
About You.
Ideally you will have some professional experience within a similar Technical/QA role in a food environment, but skills can be taught and if you have the enthusiasm and drive to develop within quality assurance this is an excellent first role.
Understanding the chain of custody within the food environment and a background of working on small to mid-sized quality improvement projects, such as implementing new procedures and defining new supporting documentation
- will be key.
- A stakeholder pension scheme
- Personal accident Insurance
- Free independent mortgage advice
- Employee assistance programme
- A range of voluntary benefits
- Holiday purchase scheme
- Additional life assurance
- Dental & hospital cash plans
- Discounted tutoring for children
- Access to financial learning tools
- Affordable loans via your salary
- Proud to be and loyal service awards.
Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions.
- you just didn't realise it. We make innovative fresh products, with around 18,500 colleagues working across the UK, US and China.
Quality Auditor
We're proud to be Bakkavor
Salary: Competitive
Location: Bourne, Lincolnshire, PE10 0AT (Site based role)
Ways of Working: Site based
Hours of work: 4 on 4 off / 06:00 – 18:00
Contract Type: Permanent
Why join us?
We’re proud to offer you a career with a global leader in the fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to give everyone the opportunity and support to develop and progress their career. To nurture talent, fuel ambition and work with resilience and purpose to achieve the highest possible standards.
About the role.
As one of our QA Auditors, you will audit, monitor, improve and evaluate quality systems and procedures and provide technical support for the operational teams as well as maintaining and promoting technical and quality standards in line with business needs and customer requirements will be a key focus.
Role Accountabilities:
- To audit compliance against Quality Management Systems, GMP and HACCP controls, raising all non-conformances against relevant standards with objective evidence.
- Understanding the site traceability system to complete audits to demonstrate compliance and retrieve information for investigation purposes.
- Take samples (micro, nutritional, swab and organoleptic) against specific schedules and communicate the progress in a timely manner.
- Prepare and facilitate taste panels in accordance with procedure
- ensuring that all results are accurately recorded and communicated to site.
- Calibration of measurement equipment in accordance with schedules and procedures.
- Support NPD trials and product launches, assisting in micro testing and product life assessment to ensure products are manufactured to the correct standard as necessary.
- Providing technical support and advice to the factory team in the event of customer visit or audit.
About You.
Ideally you will have some professional experience within a similar Technical/QA role in a food environment, but skills can be taught and if you have the enthusiasm and drive to develop within quality assurance this is an excellent first role.
Understanding the chain of custody within the food environment and a background of working on small to mid-sized quality improvement projects, such as implementing new procedures and defining new supporting documentation
- will be key.
- A stakeholder pension scheme
- Personal accident Insurance
- Free independent mortgage advice
- Employee assistance programme
- A range of voluntary benefits
- Holiday purchase scheme
- Additional life assurance
- Dental & hospital cash plans
- Discounted tutoring for children
- Access to financial learning tools
- Affordable loans via your salary
- Proud to be and loyal service awards.
Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions.