Quality Auditor - Nights

Shift Pattern - Night shift working Saturday to Tuesday 18:00 - 04:30

Rate of pay - £16.95 Per Hour, overtime paid at 1.25 hours after 48 hours

Why Greencore?

Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we're one of the UK's leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make every day taste better.

As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we're proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn. Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

Here at Manton Wood, we have a team of around 1,700 colleagues. We produce sandwiches and wraps for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Co-op, Asda, Morrisons, Boots, Aldi and Lidl. Our Manton Wood site has a gym, restaurant with hot food and a staff shop available to all our colleagues.

What you'll be doing

• To ensure their line's compliance and adherence to relevant Technical and Operational processes and procedure

• To support the line in maintaining the highest standards of product safety, quality, and demonstrating effective compliance with all legal requirements

• To comply with the site's management systems and all aspects of the company operations that have an influence on the quality and safety of the products we provide to our customers

• These systems draw on the relevant aspects of the quality manual, to ensure the products supplied are safe and legal in accordance with current legislation including HACCP

• Sample, test, audit and monitor to verify that all processes, procedures and products are being manufactured in a safe and compliant manner

• Conduct verification checks to ensure equipment is suitably calibrated to comply with required standard

• Collect all relevant samples, with adherence to procedures and protocols, to ensure quality, safety and legality of products sampled

• Provide education and training to operational colleagues and other teams to ensure compliance with all relevant technical standards

• Ensure that a safe working environment exists for all colleagues and that as a minimum the department meets the standards set out in the safety, health and environment policy

• Support the production line in its adherence to CCPs

• Ensure allergen segregation procedures are followed for; raw materials arriving at the line, through use and on return to Prep. Verify materials coming to the line comply with key safety parameters; shelf-life, temperatures

• Complete line technical documents, such as weight check sheets

• Verify materials coming to the line comply with key legal parameters, traceability information, labelling, product and material weights

• Complete and record on-line quality taste panels

• Verify correct production methods / procedure adherence; products specification and QAS document are in use on-line

• Complete process confirmation activities around allergen and non-allergen cleandowns

• Escalation of Quality issues

• Complete LCM 3% compliance checks

• Verify materials coming to the line comply with key quality parameters, such as visual appearance

• Support the line with collect and return of correct production and cleaning tools

• Product and equipment handling on their lines

• Other tasks may be required

What we're looking for

• GCSE or equivalent standard; numerate and literate

• Basic Computer literate for standard office practices

• Health and Safety - level Two

• Food hygiene - level Two

• CCP training including HACCP principles for Manufacturing Unit

• Internal Audit Process; Understanding and Experience

• Allergen Awareness; Understanding of risk

• GMP; Knowledge of techniques

• Non-conformance reporting techniques

• Microbiological awareness - understanding of basic of food safety

These may be trained or developed. These do not all need to be in place at recruitment.

We're not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity. If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.

What you'll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits

• Holidays

• Pension up to 8% matched

• Life insurance up to 4x salary

• Company share save scheme

• Greencore Qualifications

• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform

• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Please note due to high numbers of applications this role maybe closed before the posted closing date.

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