We are looking for a Quality Assurance Business Partner to join the Frontier team, based at Newmachar, on a full-time, fixed-term basis for 12 months. This role does include travelling and overnight stays on a regular basis as we are a national business covering the whole of the UK.

The successful candidate will help the business to maintain its Quality assurance certification together with ensuring compliance and verification to food and feed safety standards.

This will be performed by managing on site procedures, the supplier approval system process, auditing, training, liaising with consumers on terms and conditions and performance and ensuring the Quality Assurance procedures are maintained.

The Benefits

• Competitive salary
• 25 days holiday per calendar year with option to purchase up to 5 more days (subject to meeting eligibility requirements)
• Dedicated Learning & Development team to support you and your career
• Employee Assistance Program providing 24 hours support & advice in areas such as health and wellbeing for yourself, your family & friends (up to 5 people in total)
• Increased Maternity, Paternity & Adoption leave benefits for eligible employees
• Life Assurance scheme and pension plan with employer contributions of up to 7%
• Up to two days paid volunteer leave per year (only applicable to permanent employees)
• The opportunity to join our employee network groups including LGBTQ+, Menopause wellbeing, Neurodiversity and Womens network groups.
• Cycle to Work Scheme, employee retail discount scheme and free eye test vouchers

About You

• Internal Auditors qualification or relevant experience in food or feed
• Full driving license
• Proven experience of working within an auditing role highly desirable
• HACCP Level 2 high desirable
• Food/Feed Safety experience
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft office
• Excellent administrative and organisational skills
• Proven attention to detail
• A natural and engaging communication style, demonstrating a passion and excellence for customer contact, developing trusting relationships both internally and externally
• Ability to work on own initiative, making decisions, managing own workload and time
• An effective team player
• A polite, friendly, and professional person who is solution focussed and passionate about getting things right first time despite challenges and obstacles

Your Role

As a Quality Assurance Business Partner your role will involve:

• Completing audit reports, implementing, monitoring, following up corrective actions and implementing preventative procedures where required
• Writing/updating and implementing procedures in line with current certification requirements and customer demands
• Collaboration with stakeholders and being involved in companies meetings
• Maintaining specific HACCPs with review and maintenance
• Monitoring suppliers based on performance and key criteria
• Delivering training on food and feed requirements
• Full use and promoting, encouraging and educating on the use of the QA Frontier database system to the wider business

We encourage candidates to submit their applications as early as possible and not to wait until the published closing date as applications will be reviewed and interviews may be booked in before that date.

We reserve the right to remove this advert or close it to further applications at any point during the recruitment process.

About Us

Frontier is a successful and growing business. We are the largest crop production and grain marketing company in the UK, with over 1,000 employees and a turnover of more than £1.5 billion.With a vision to be the first-choice employer in UK agriculture, we are committed to delivering a culture where people are at the heart of our success.

Our business approach is underpinned by our core values Integrity, Customer First and Expertise or ICE. These values support our whole philosophy and way of working and we are always looking to attract talented individuals with either industry knowledge or specialist skills that will help us deliver consistently to these values.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We have a clear commitment to equality of opportunity and diversity encouraging fairness and equality of treatment for all. As such we encourage applications from all backgrounds.

We recognise the value of a workforce in which people from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to introduce fresh ideas and contribute to the business goals. xbpsjku

We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive environment with inclusive employment policies, such as progressive flexible working and parental policies.