Quality Assurance Auditor - Days in Blagdon

At Yeo Valley, we're about more than just making great food – we're here to Nurture & Nourish People & Planet by Making Great Food the Right Way. Forever. As a co-owned business, we invest in our people, encourage growth, and believe in doing things properly.

As Quality Assurance Auditor you'll be responsible for supporting a continuous improvement based Food safety and Quality culture across the site in line with the business Technical strategy and policy. You'll ensure that we have consistent operating procedures that cover all tasks and that co-owners have received the training required to be able to confidently meet the safety and quality standards we require. You'll be an integral member of the Site Technical Team, reporting into the site Quality Manager. You will work with both the operations and engineering teams to identify and implement continuous improvement from a technical bias.

Key responsibilities:

• Identifying all tasks required that are critical to food safety, legality and quality in each department on site, ensuring a standard operating procedure is in place for each.
• Auditing co-owners to ensure they have been trained in the necessary procedures and can confidently demonstrate the knowledge necessary to meet standards.
• Work cross functionally to review and revise operating procedures where gaps are identified.
• Work with co-owners to fill knowledge gaps that are identified.
• Review and revise the site training database to reflect co-owners skills and training.
• Provide holiday and absence cover for the Quality Assurance Technologist.
• Assisting with site visits and audits pertaining to this role.
• Supporting the Quality Manager as required.

Passionate and proud about our products and processes, you will be always looking for ways to improve our delivery on site KPI's and work closely with all key stakeholders to drive improvements across site.

Sounds interesting, what do I need?

Essential:

• Demonstrable experience within a relevant role within the food industry.
• Strong communication and influencing skills.
• Good IT skills, ability to manipulate and present information effectively.
• Good standard of English.

Desirable:

• A recognised audit qualification.
• Training qualification.
• Relevant food safety and HACCP qualifications.
• Knowledge of BRC accreditation and retailer standards.

Why should I join the family?

We’re independent, British and proud to be making the highest quality yogurts, desserts and ice cream under the Yeo Valley brand and for many of the UK’s major retailers. Operating from four dairies and two logistics centres in Somerset and Devon, we employ over 1700 staff and produce more than 25% of the UK’s packaged yogurt.

We’re sure you don’t need convincing, but there’s a whole host of benefits that we offer. It goes without saying that you'll have access to free parking, top of the range personal protection equipment (PPE). You'll also receive the following:

• Competitive holiday allowance.
• Non-contributory pension scheme.
• Life cover.
• Healthcare cash back plan.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Subsidised Yeo Valley products and services.
• Preferential rates with our partners.
• Learning and development opportunities; we’re committed to ensuring all of our employees have the chance to grow.

Our closing dates are a guide for when the application window should close, although we may close the advert sooner if we can. So, we recommend you get your application in straight away – and don’t miss the opportunity to join us! Unfortunately, we’re not able to provide employment sponsorship to candidates at this moment in time. Please note that Yeo Valley do not accept speculative agency applications; we will only accept applications from preferred suppliers that have been submitted to us via our recruitment portal at the point of instruction.