Quality & Food Safety Auditor Supervisor

Overview

The Quality and Food Safety Auditor Supervisor ensures the food we make is safe for our customers.

The QFSA supervisor will lead the PM shift team and the night shift team to audit our ingredients, processes and products.

You will be accountable for the performance of the team on shift, prioritising tasks to ensure compliance to schedules.

You'll need to be a people-person with great team-working skills as well as being diligent and focused in attention to detail.

You'll need to enjoy working in a demanding environment and be able to stay focused with tight deadlines to work to.

This team is part of the technical department, which can be described as the ‘Conscience of the Business’.

It has a core remit of keeping the business and our customers safe by ensuring quality of our food meets the standards we are proud to achieve.

This position is a fixed PM shift: 1.45pm to  9.45pm, Monday to Friday.

£37825.32 per annum + shift allowance + bonus + benefits

Who we are

apetito is the UK’s leading food supplier to the health and social care sectors serving more than 1,300 care homes, health care and education settings.

Our meals are expertly crafted by our dieticians and chefs, and then frozen to lock in the goodness.

Wiltshire Farm Foods, our sister company, is the UK’s largest ready meal supplier cooking and delivering over 330 different delicious frozen ready meals across the UK.

Responsibilities

• Ensure food safety, quality, and compliance standards are consistently achieved across site.
• Carry out audits and inspections in line with BRC and HACCP requirements.
• Investigate quality issues and customer complaints, identifying root causes and implementing solutions.
• Manage food safety and quality non-conformances, driving corrective and preventative actions.
• Support traceability exercises and product investigations when required.
• Monitor product quality against agreed specifications and standards.
• Assess risks associated with raw materials and incoming goods.
• Manage supplier quality concerns, concessions, and product rejections.
• Support the operation and compliance of food safety monitoring and detection systems.
• Coordinate testing activities and maintain accurate quality documentation.
• Promote a strong food safety culture through training, inductions, and coaching.
• Work closely with production and technical teams to continuously improve quality performance.

About you

Essential:

• Experience working in a food manufacturing/ quality environment
• Experience supervising a team:
  • Motivating
  • Monitoring performance
  • Working to KPIs
• SAP experience
• Strong IT skills
• Attention to detail
• Compliance ethos

Desirable:

• Degree, or equivalent, in relevant subject
• BRCGS experience
• Auditing skills/ experience

This role is not eligible for sponsorship under the skilled worker route as it does not meet the minimum requirements set out under the UK Immigration Rules.

Company Benefits

• Competitive salary – accredited Living Wage employer
• 25 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays
• Option to purchase up to 5 additional days holiday per year
• Discretionary annual bonus scheme
• Pension scheme - employer matched contributions up to 4%
• Life assurance scheme worth at least 1x annual salary
• Subsidised canteen
• Free parking
• Free turkey or voucher at Christmas
• apetito perks scheme including salary sacrifice options and retail discounts

Our Values

As a family-owned business, we take great pride in being a company that makes a real difference and is dedicated to creating outstanding meals to be proud of.

We develop a range of products designed to enhance health and well-being for all our customers.

We are driven by a passion for service and dedicated to feeding some of the UK’s most vulnerable people.

We proudly support British food and farming, focusing on using the best ethical and sustainable produce in alignment with our goal to reach Net Zero by 2040.

Our ethical standards are recognised by the ETI and we are an accredited Living Wage employer.Learn more about apetito’s commitment to a more sustainable future.

We embrace inclusion, empowering individuals from diverse backgrounds.

Our commitment to making a real difference extends to customers, communities, and staff and we're on a mission to build an inclusive workplace where everyone reaches their full potential.