Raw Materials Quality Auditor (FTC) We're Proud to be Bakkavor Salary: £27,000.00 Location: Old Leake (Boston PE22 9PN) Shift: 5 on 2 off Hours: 08:30 - 17:00 Why join us? We're proud to offer you a career with options to explore and pursue. Where you'll be supported to work hard, push further and show resilience. As a valued Technical Manager, we'll support your ambition, reward your resilience, and encourage you to rise to challenges and create a career you can be proud of too. What we do We're the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry - supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. About the role Ensure that customer, business unit and legal requirements for raw materials and supplier quality assurance are achieved through monitoring and assessing the quality of raw materials (including packaging) entering the business. Accountabilities: Technical Standards: Assess all incoming deliveries against a pre-determined raw material specification. Quality Management System: Maintain accurate records of all raw materials (including packaging) entering the site including the upload of information to the relevant systems. Quality Management System: Carry out microbiological, nutritional, quality and chemical sampling against a pre-determined schedule and report progress in a timely manner. Ad hoc sampling for site investigations may also be required. KPI'S: With guidance from Line Manager, coordinate day to day activities to deliver improvement of Technical KPIs Audit: Participate in Technical audits including customer and Group Technical, ensuring all relevant raw material information is available and completed in the required timescale. Audit: To audit compliance against Quality Management Systems, GMP and HACCP controls, raising all non-conformances against relevant standards with objective evidence, effectively communicated to enable the operational teams to take the appropriate and necessary corrective action & to follow up and monitor completion of actions. Communication: Develop relationships with suppliers by ensuring all non-conformances are communicated in a timely manner. Will monitor whether responses have been received and review the action plans to ensure root cause has been considered. Customer Management: Ensure that all customer complaints in relation to raw materials are investigated satisfactorily and corrective actions are agreed and documented. Investigation findings will be reported to the site Quality/Systems Manager. KPI's: Will log non-conformances associated with raw materials identified through intake checks, factory issues and/or customer complaints in order that supplier performance can be monitored and trended. Health & Safety: To operate in a safe working manner and support the site/business on continuous improvement relating to heath, safety and the environment What you'll receive As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team Apply now to find out more LI-JG1 Bakkavor We are the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, and our presence in the US and China positions the Group well in these high-growth markets. We leverage our consumer insight and scale to provide innovative food that offers quality, choice, convenience, and freshness. Around 18,000 colleagues operate from 44 sites across our three markets supplying a portfolio of over 3,000 products across meals, pizza & bread, salads and desserts to leading grocery retailers in the UK and US, and international food brands in China. Category: Technical Location: Boston, GB, PE22 9PN Date: 14 Feb 2025 Req ID: 23698