Vitacress
Technical Quality Auditor Nights
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Technical Quality Auditor (Nights)
Join a Business Where Quality Matters
📍 Location: SMB 🕕 Shift Pattern: 4 On, 4 Off | 6:00pm – 6:00am 💰 Salary: £36,962.38 per annum 📄 Contract: Permanent
About the Role
Passionate about quality, food safety, and continuous improvement?
At Vitacress, we’re committed to delivering fresh, high-quality products that our customers and consumers can trust. We’re looking for a Technical Quality Auditor to join our Night Shift Team and ensure the highest standards of food safety, quality, and compliance across our entire operation.
This is an excellent career opportunity for someone with experience in food manufacturing, quality, or compliance who wants to grow within a fast-paced, high-performance business.
Responsibilities
As a Technical Quality Auditor, you’ll be instrumental in:
- Maintaining and improving quality standards throughout the production process, from raw material intake to finished product.
- Ensuring products consistently meet legal requirements, customer expectations, and company standards.
- Promoting a strong culture of food safety and quality across the site.
Key DutIES:
✅ Conducting audits and inspections against:
- Quality Management Systems (QMS)
- Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
- Good Hygiene Practices (GHP)
- HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) requirements
✅ Assessing products throughout the entire production process, from raw materials to finished goods, to ensure compliance.
✅ Identifying, investigating, and reporting any quality issues or non-conformances.
✅ Supporting root cause analysis and implementing corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
✅ Analysing audit trends, customer complaints, and non-conformance reports to drive continuous improvement.
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✅ Completing traceability exercises and mass balance checks to ensure accuracy and compliance.
✅ Carrying out calibration checks on quality-related equipment.
✅ Collaborating closely with Production, Technical, and Management teams to maintain and enhance site standards.
✅ Championing food safety, product quality, and ongoing improvement across the operation.
Requirements
Essential Criteria:
✔ Detail-oriented with a passion for quality and food safety. ✔ Confident, proactive, and unafraid to challenge standards when necessary. ✔ Highly organised with strong time-management and analytical skills. ✔ Comfortable working independently while also contributing effectively as part of a team. ✔ Excellent communicator with good IT skills for reporting and data analysis. ✔ Committed to maintaining the highest standards and driving continuous improvement daily.
Desirable Experience:
⭐ Previous work in food manufacturing or FMCG (Fast-Moving Consumer Goods). ⭐ Knowledge of food safety, quality assurance, auditing, or compliance processes. ⭐ Understanding of HACCP, GMP, and food safety standards. ⭐ Experience in investigating quality issues and supporting corrective actions.
Benefits of Joining Vitacress
At Vitacress, quality isn’t just a goal—it’s the foundation of everything we do. Joining our Technical team means becoming part of an organisation that:
🌱 Invests in your professional development, helping you develop expertise in technical and food safety practices.
🌱 Offers hands-on exposure to auditing, compliance, and Quality Management Systems in a real-world environment.
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🌱 Provides the chance to work alongside experienced Technical and Operational teams in a collaborative, supportive culture.
🌱 Allows you to contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, shaping the future of the business.
🌱 Offers a long-term career path within a respected, rapidly growing, and trusted food manufacturing company.
Our Values
🌟 Always Deliver Quality – We’re proud to consistently exceed expectations for our customers and consumers. 🤝 Do the Right Thing – We operate with integrity, respect, and accountability in every decision. 🚀 Nurture the Future – We continuously develop our people, processes, and business to ensure sustainable growth.
Ready for Your Next Challenge?
If you’re passionate about food safety, quality assurance, and making a real impact in a dynamic manufacturing environment, we’d love to hear from you.
Apply today and become part of a trusted team dedicated to delivering uncompromising quality from field to fork.
📍 Vitacress Salads, based in St Mary Bourne, Andover, is one of the UK’s leading salad and watercress suppliers. From our horticultural farms to our processing plants, we deliver a field-to-fork operation, ensuring the highest standards at every stage. We grow, wash, pack, package, and distribute for leading UK retailers.
At Vitacress, we take pride in pioneering responsible practices—growing produce responsibly, empowering our employees, and building lasting customer relationships. Whether you’re inspired by our authentic brand culture, modern facilities, outstanding team, or career growth opportunities, you’ll find your place with us.
Join us and become a trusted partner in shaping the future of fresh food. 🌱
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