Join a globally recognised food company and play a key role in ensuring the highest quality standards
We’re looking for a Quality Assurance Specialist to support compliance, food safety, and continuous improvement across multiple sites.
Reporting to the Senior Quality Assurance Manager, you’ll collaborate with teams across the business to uphold industry regulations, company policies, and internal auditing requirements.
- Ensuring adherence to the product testing schedule, recording and analysing results to identify trends, and escalating any out-of-spec findings.
- Overseeing environmental monitoring, allergen, and water testing, investigating any issues, and supporting corrective actions.
- Preparing documentation and leading traceability exercises for external audits.
- Conducting internal audits to ensure compliance with industry regulations, policies, and food safety standards.
- Identifying quality and food safety risks, working with departments to implement corrective and preventative actions (CAPA).
- Communicating effectively with operational teams to address quality concerns.
- Delivering Food Safety and Quality training as needed.
- Conducting environmental swabbing and tracking trends.
- Contributing to site meetings and business quality projects to drive improvements.
The ideal candidate will:
- A degree (or equivalent) in Food Science, Microbiology, or a related discipline (preferred)
- Possess knowledge of HACCP and BRC
- Experience with participation in audits
- Ability to work with flours and flavourings while following appropriate PPE requirements
If you’re interested in this opportunity, contact Rob on 01733306030 or email rob@coulterelite.co.uk
Coulter Elite Resourcing is an independent recruitment consultancy with a head office in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, supplying permanent, temporary, and contract personnel from office junior through to the highest levels of management both locally and nationally. Our areas of recruitment are Commercial, FMCG, Engineering, Technical, and IT. We endeavour to reply to every application we receive, however, due to the volume of applications sometimes we are unable to do this. If you have not heard back from us within 7 days of your application, please accept our apologies that you have on this occasion been unsuccessful.