Quality Auditor Team Leader

Overview

As Quality Auditor Team Leader, you guide and support a shift team of Quality Auditors to ensure audits, checks, and investigations meet timely, high-quality standards. You collaborate with Production, Technical, Hygiene and Engineering to keep products safe, compliant, and high quality. You will lead non‑conformance investigations, manage GMP and hygiene audits, and oversee testing schedules for materials, products, and the environment. You will develop the team through coaching and performance management while driving improvement across the site. This role anchors Samworth Brothers’ commitment to quality, safety and continuous improvement.

Pay / Benefits

• company pension scheme
• health and well-being support
• employee discount scheme
• annual pay reviews
• profit related pay
• extended leave

Responsibilities

• Lead and organise Quality Auditors to ensure audits on schedule
• Ensure non-conformances are understood, corrected and followed up
• Investigate customer complaints, out-of-spec results, and micro/chemical issues
• Complete GMP, traceability, hygiene and fabrication audits and report findings
• Manage testing schedules for raw materials, products and environment
• Support validation, HACCP improvements and internal audits
• Keep calibration records up to date and arrange external calibration when needed
• Support team development through coaching, guidance and performance management

Key requirements

• Experience in quality or technical roles in the food industry
• Understanding of BRC, retailer standards, HACCP and food safety
• Experience supervising, coaching or leading others
• Strong communication and ability to influence across teams
• Positive, supportive attitude and strong work ethic

• leadership
• communication
• influence across teams
• GMP
• HACCP
• traceability

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