Vitacress
Technical - Quality Auditor SMB
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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
Passionate About Quality, Food Safety and Continuous Improvement?
At Vitacress, we're committed to delivering fresh, high-quality products that our customers can trust. We're looking for a Technical Quality Auditor to join our Night Shift Team and help ensure the highest standards of food safety, quality, and compliance across our operation.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone with experience in food manufacturing, quality, or compliance who is looking to develop their career within a fast-paced and growing business.
The Role
As a Technical Quality Auditor, you will play a key role in maintaining and improving quality standards throughout the production process, from raw material intake through to finished product.
You'll be responsible for ensuring that products meet legal, customer, and company requirements while promoting a strong culture of quality and food safety throughout the site.
What You'll Be Doing
✅ Conducting Audits And Inspections Against
Quality Management Systems (QMS) Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Good Hygiene Practices (GHP) HACCP requirements
✅ Assessing products throughout the production process, from raw materials to finished goods
✅ Identifying, investigating, and reporting quality issues and non-conformances
✅ Supporting root cause analysis and implementing corrective actions
✅ Analysing trends from audits, inspections, complaints, and non-conformance reports
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✅ Completing traceability exercises and mass balance checks
✅ Carrying out calibration checks on quality equipment
✅ Working closely with Production, Technical, and Management teams to maintain site standards
✅ Championing food safety, product quality, and continuous improvement
What We're Looking For
We're Looking For An Individual Who Is
✔ Detail-oriented with a passion for quality
✔ Confident, proactive, and able to challenge standards when necessary
✔ Highly organised with strong time-management skills
✔ Comfortable working independently and as part of a team
✔ A strong communicator with good IT skills
✔ Committed to maintaining high standards and driving continuous improvement
Desirable Experience
⭐ Previous experience within a food manufacturing or FMCG environment
⭐ Knowledge of food safety, quality assurance, auditing, or compliance processes
⭐ Understanding of HACCP, GMP, and food safety standards
⭐ Experience investigating quality issues and supporting corrective actions
Why Join Vitacress?
At Vitacress, quality is at the heart of everything we do. Joining our Technical team means becoming part of a business that invests in its people and encourages professional development.
We Offer The Opportunity To
🌱 Develop your technical and food safety expertise
🌱 Gain exposure to auditing, compliance, and quality management systems
🌱 Work alongside experienced Technical and Operational teams
🌱 Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives across the business
🌱 Build a long-term career within a respected and growing food manufacturing company
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Our Values
🌟 Always Deliver Quality
We take pride in consistently delivering the highest standards for our customers and consumers.
🤝 Do the Right Thing
We act with integrity, respect, and accountability in everything we do.
🚀 Nurture the Future
We continuously develop our people, processes, and business to achieve sustainable success.
Ready for Your Next Challenge?
If you're passionate about food safety, quality, and making a real impact in a dynamic manufacturing environment, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply today and become part of a team dedicated to delivering quality from field to fork. 🌱
Vitacress Salads, based in leafy St Mary Bourne, Andover is one of the principal salad and watercress suppliers in the UK. With our own salad leaf farms, we take immense pride in delivering a field to fork operation. We grow, wash, pack and distribute salad and watercress for retailer own brands and our own brand Steve’s Leaves. We take pleasure in ensuring the best possible standard and we will empower you to do the same. From the way we grow our products, to the relationships we maintain with customers, everyone knows exactly what is going on. We are authentic and grounded. At the centre of everything is a trust that you can feel every day at work. From the salads that are grown on site; to the investment in facilities and the growth of the business; to growing and nurturing out talented employees, growing is truly at the heart of what we do. Join us and become a trusted partner in our business.
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