QA Auditor (12 months FTC)

Quality Assurance Auditor (12 months FTC) 

We’re looking for a QA Auditor to join our Technical team at our Nottingham site on a 12 months fixed-term contract, covering maternity leave, and play a key role in maintaining the highest standards of food safety, quality, legality and customer compliance.

About The Compleat Food Group

At The Compleat Food Group, we’re proud to be a food business built on purpose and passion. Formed in 2021, we’re on a mission to create Food to Feel Good – great quality, tasty and affordable food that people love to eat.

We’re home to some of the UK’s most exciting and loved food brands, including Wall’s Pastry, Pork Farms, Wrights, The Real Yorkshire Pudding Co., unearthed, Vadasz, Squeaky Bean, Palace Culture, and Harvey & Brockless. Alongside our branded portfolio, we’re a leading supplier of delicious own-label pastry, sweet bakery, party food, olives and antipasti, added-value egg products, continental meats, dips and sauces and plant-based food to the UK’s major retailers, as well as across foodservice.

With over 6,000 talented colleagues across 17 sites, and an annual turnover of £1.3bn, we’re united by a shared ambition to shape the future of food for the better.

We are backed by European private equity firm PAI Partners.

Location: Nottingham

Hours: Monday – Thursday: 8:30am – 5pm & Friday: 8:30am – 4pm

Salary:  up to £30,000 per annum DOE

Contract duration: 12 months

Purpose:

As a QA Auditor, you’ll provide professional and effective technical and quality support to the factory, helping to drive high standards of food safety and GMP across the site.

You’ll play an important role in ensuring our quality systems are followed and business requirements are met, while building strong and positive relationships with customers, suppliers and colleagues.

Key Duties, Responsibilities & Accountabilities:

Maintain and enhance relationships with all departments, fostering teamwork and effective communication.

• Communication & Teamwork skills developed.
• Detailed communication records available for site use at all times.

Conduct daily factory walk rounds, working closely with the operations team to meet and maintain high GMP standards. This includes performing in-depth hygiene inspections on equipment, leading to improved factory standards and valuable feedback from the operations team.

• Daily walk rounds carried out.
• Improved factory standards.
• Feedback from the operations team.

To support the production teams and other departmental functions in resolving quality issues. Detailed investigations are crucial for timely issue closure and a reduction in quality incidents.

• Detailed investigations completed as necessary.
• imely closure of issues
• Reduction in quality incidents
• Carry out daily taste panels as part of reviewing the quality of products.
• Taste panels carried out on time
• Products reviewed prior to panels and issues feedback to operations team as necessary
• Carry out routine tasks such as swabbing, air plates and product sampling in line with schedules in place, send to Lab and investigate OOS results.
• Sampling/testing carried out to schedule
• OOS Reports completed
• Carry out Pre Despatch Verification (PDV) checks.
• 4 hours checks carried out on time
• Reduction in issues due to accurate checks

Support the investigation into customer complaints including ability to carry our full traceability exercises.

• Completed complaints investigation reports
• Recall of product traceability

Support on site audits by third parties.

• Good audit results

Carry out temperature monitoring and measurement for onsite temperature systems as required.

• Timely checks
• Completed records

Carry out scheduled calibration checks e.g. scales, belts etc.

• Checks carried out to schedule

Carry out and report scheduled internal audits and close of corrective actions.

• Audits carried out on time
• Close out of actions

Pick up ad hoc tasks and requests through the technical management team e.g. traceability exercises, investigations.

• Reports completed
• Prevention of issues recurring

Pick up ad hoc projects as requested and take part in project teams.

• Project delivery

Support NPD and commercial in new launches through line set ups for labelling, coding, X rays, check weigher, Metal detection.

• Completed checks prior to launch

Champion a health and safety culture to meet all requirements across the site. Promote safe working practices ensuring safety during packaging trials.

• Promote safe working across site and advise manager immediately on unsafe working practices
• Work safely during packaging trials

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Previous QA experience in a food production facility
• Ability to use computer programmes including word, excel and related technical IT packages
• Allergen awareness-implications
• Food Safety Level 2
• Good communicator

Why Join Us?

At The Compleat Food Group, we believe our people are the heart of our success. That’s why we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your lifestyle, wellbeing and career growth:

Financial & Lifestyle Benefits:

• Salary Sacrifice Schemes – including Electric Vehicles, Home & Tech, Cycle to Work, and SMART Pension
• Annual leave with the option to purchase extra
• Holiday Discounts via our online retail platform
• Access to enhanced retail discounts online and in-store
• Free product handouts across our sites, so you can sample and enjoy our delicious products first hand
• EV charging points – available at selected sites

Health & Wellbeing:

• 24/7 access to Grocery Aid for free financial, emotional, and practical support
• Physical Wellbeing Hub – free on-demand exercise classes, gym discounts
• Free diet & nutrition advice with access to thousands of healthy recipes
• Online wellbeing support – from mindfulness to lifestyle resources
• Financial wellbeing tools – including mortgage calculators, budgeting tools, and financial aid

Career Growth & Development:

• Access to a personalised online learning platform (LMS)
• Formal and informal training opportunities tailored to your role
• Performance Development Plans and regular Career Conversations
• Company Mentoring Scheme  to add depth and really support your career journey
• Recognition through Club Compleat rewards

Community & Culture:

• 2 paid volunteering days per year to give back to causes that matter to you
• Charity initiatives and fundraising events
• Team socials to connect and celebrate together
• Employee networks & support groups – including Women @ Compleat
• New baby gift for new parents

What You Should Know About How We Recruit

At The Compleat Food Group, we believe great teams are built on difference. We create an inclusive, respectful environment where everyone feels safe, supported, and are able to be themselves at work.

We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to Fairness, Equity, Inclusivity, and Respect. If you need a reasonable adjustment at any stage of our recruitment process, just let us know, we’ll support you — confidentially and with care.

We hire the best people for our roles, not the same people. Whoever you are, wherever you’re from, we focus on what you do and the impact you could make in our business. Our recruitment process is fair, accessible, and designed to give everyone an equal chance.

You’ll also find benefits that support people at every life stage, plus active internal networks — including Women @ Compleat, LGBTQIA+, and Neurodiversity