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Cranswick Poultry is a specialty producer of delicious, cooked poultry ingredients and is a leading innovator in the industry. We create exciting, original products that meet the needs of today’s busy consumers. Working closely with customers, our bespoke chicken products offer creative and flavorsome lunchtime solutions.

The main purpose of the role is to assist Technical Management in the operation of the systems to ensure compliance to internal, third party and retailer requirements and perform periodic documented examination and verification of activities, records and processes of any given quality system to determine the effectiveness and dependability of such system. The auditor monitors all quality standards for business’s manufactured products.

The key elements of the role are:

  • To promote, monitor and maintain a high standard of hygienic practice and quality, and ensure good manufacturing practice within the factory.
  • Monitor finished product against agreed specifications. To take appropriate corrective actions as required and escalate as appropriate.
  • Carrying out microbiological swabbing and the collection of microbiological samples to the specific regimes.
  • Conducting accompanied hygiene audits with the departmental hygiene teams.
  • Calibration of factory equipment to the specific regime.
  • Titration of factory cleaning chemical strengths to the specific regime.
  • Assisting with site fabrication audits and conducting the site glass/brittle materials audits.
  • Checking incoming raw materials against agreed purchasing specifications, to take appropriate corrective actions as required and escalate as appropriate.
  • Input to constantly develop and improve the factory quality systems.
  • To communicate any GMP breaches as appropriate.
  • To promote high levels of food hygiene standards across site.
  • To assist 3rd Party or Retailer visits and to ensure that the site is prepared for all known visits.
  • To drive improvements, by working with all departments, to reduce complaints and other non-conformances.

Full Job Description is available upon request