KatKin's Opportunity
What we do at KatKin
For uncompromising cat parents who want the best, KatKin goes hardcore for cat health. We make the UK’s only fresh cat food: 100% human-quality meat, gently cooked, and frozen for freshness.
Where the competition cuts corners, catfishes customers and puts profits over health, we put cat wellbeing first. No shortcuts. No secret recipes. We’re cutting the fluff, thinking fresh and channelling hardcore love into industry-wide change. So cats live long and cat parents can love hard without compromise.
Why You’ll Love Working With Us
We’re all-in for cats, and it shows: our energy will blow you away from day one. You’ll be surrounded by knowledgeable scientists, big creative thinkers, astute business brains, and a whole team of hardcore cat parents. All on a mission to make hardcore love the new standard in cat care – with a fresh take on every product in the cat industry.
The Role
Located in Haverhill, the KatKin Kitchen is where our fresh, 100% human-quality meat food is gently cooked and frozen. We are looking for exceptional full-time Quality Auditors to join our Technical team in delivering a first-class technical service across food safety, quality, legislative and customer requirements.
Reporting directly to our QA Manager and working alongside our highly motivated technical and food manufacturing team you will be the champion for all things food safety and quality related on site.
Key ownership areas
* Be responsible for day-to-day aspects of food safety and product quality to meet or exceed all customer, regulatory and company standards
* Ensuring daily / weekly / monthly QA scheduled tasks (i.e. GMP, calibrations, audits and sampling) are completed on time and any subsequent actions are followed up
* Assisting in the maintenance of site documentation and product traceability
* Driving levels of accountability for food safety culture across the site
* Ensuring the site is always audit ready and working to a high standard
* Able to show problem-solving qualities
* Proactive approach to daily and long-term issues as they arise
* To ensure the recipes are meeting the specification requirements
* Self-motivated and able to work to tight deadlines under pressure
* Committed to continuous improvement within their environment
* Well organised and able to react to the needs of the business
* Supportive and committed to the manufacturing team and all other areas of the business
* Work to good hygiene and housekeeping practices set out by the company, keeping your work area clean and tidy
* Ensure the product is of excellent quality, complete quality checks as you go
Who we are looking for:
* Minimum of 6 months experience in a FMCG food manufacturing site
* Comfortable with agricultural animal food production (chicken, beef, pork, fish, turkey, lamb, duck)
* Experienced knowledge of health and safety/food safety systems & legislation: Food Safety and Hygiene Level 2 minimum
* Highly organised and able to prioritise your workload within a pressurised environment
* Strong communicator and able to communicate with internal teams
* Ability to reliably commute or relocate to CB9 7FD
Nice to haves
* Graduate in Food Science, Agronomy, Biology
* Strong IT skills, able to use Google Suite
What We Offer
* Career defining opportunity in being instrumental to scaling our new state of the art food manufacturing site
* No egos and a small close-knit team
* 25 days of holiday every year plus your birthday off excluding bank holidays
* Enhanced Paternity/Maternity leave
* Discount on KatKin fresh meals
* Comprehensive AXA Employee Assistance plan including optical and dental
* Yearly personal development budget
* Company pension
* Newly built, state of the art kitchen site with lunch making facilities
* Free tea, coffee, and fruit
* Free on-site parking
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