Quality & Food Safety Auditor Supervisor

Overview

Are you passionate about food quality and making a real impact?

As Quality and Food Safety Auditor Supervisor, you’ll help ensure every product we make is safe and meets the standards our customers expect.

You’ll lead the PM and night-shift teams, auditing ingredients, processes and products while prioritising tasks to keep the team on schedule and compliant.

You’ll be a collaborative, people-focused leader with a sharp eye for detail, able to stay focused and deliver under pressure.

As part of Technical—the ‘Conscience of the Business’—you’ll protect our customers and our business by upholding the quality and food-safety standards we’re proud of.

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.

Qualifications/Personal Qualities

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.