QA Supervisor

Our Vacancies; Northampton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading convenience food company is looking for a QA Supervisor to join their team in Northampton. This role involves ensuring that all materials and finished products meet safety and quality standards. Responsibilities include auditing, training staff, investigating complaints, and working closely with hygiene teams. Candidates should have experience in food manufacturing, a Level 2/3 food safety certification, and the ability to work night shifts. The position offers competitive salary, pension, and employee benefits.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Pension up to 8% matched

Life insurance up to 4x salary

Company share save scheme

Greencore Qualifications

Employee discount platform

Access to Wellbeing Centre

Enhanced parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Able to work nights.
• Ideally educated to Higher National Diploma level and/or experience within a similar role in food manufacturing.
• Experience of managing a team and leading people.
• Holds a Level 2/3 food safety certification.
• Basic knowledge of weight legislation and allergen awareness.
• Experienced working with computer systems.
• Understanding of internal audit process and technical key performance indicators.
• Has CCP training including HACCP principles.
• Experience and knowledge of good manufacturing practice (GMP).
• Demonstratable non-conformance reporting techniques.
• Basic knowledge of hygiene principles and legal labelling practice.

Responsibilities

• Support the QA team to verify that all materials are safe and conform to specifications.
• Complete audits and key performance indicators.
• Train the team on new processes and procedures.
• Investigate customer complaints and provide data for resolution.
• Organize organoleptic panel for consistent quality.
• Ensure a safe working environment for colleagues.
• Support management of QA team and ensure task completion.
• Monitor micro results and initiate investigations.
• Work closely with the hygiene team for audits.

Skills

Ability to work nights

Experience in food manufacturing

Team management

Food safety certification

Knowledge of allergens

Computer systems experience

Understanding of internal audits

HACCP training

Knowledge of GMP

Non-conformance reporting

Microbiological awareness

Knowledge of hygiene principles

Education

Higher National Diploma

Job description

Why Greencore?

We’re one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better.

Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we’re one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better.

As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we’re proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn.

Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

Here at Northampton, we operate one of the most impressive facilities in Europe, based across a campus of 5 manufacturing units, and we have a team of around 2,000 colleagues making high quality premium products every day. We are the sole supplier of sandwiches, wraps, rolls and sushi for Marks & Spencer.

What you’ll be doing

This is a 12-month Maternity Cover

Shift Pattern: Nights, Saturday - Wednesday (starts Friday night 21:30 and finishes Wednesday morning 06:00)

As QA Supervisor on nights you will support the QA team to verify that all materials including finished products are safe and conform to all relevant specification, legislation and customer requirements.

• Complete audits and key performance indicators and monitor the consistency of outputs across the team for compliance purposes
• Train the team to ensure that new process and procedures are adopted
• Building production team capability to improve communication and understanding of technical standards
• Investigating customer complaints or any non-conformance raised internal or externally to provide data which informs resolution
• Organise organoleptic panel to ensure consistent quality
• Ensure that a safe working environment exists for all colleagues and that as a minimum the department meets the standards set out in the Health Safety and Environment policy
• Supporting the management of QA team, ensuring tasks are completed in line with schedules and trackers.
• Monitoring of micro results and initiating any investigations as required.
• Working closely with the hygiene team to ensure swabbing and hygiene audits are completed in line with schedules

What we’re looking for

• Able to work nights
• Ideally educated to Higher National Diploma level and/or experience within a similar role in food manufacturing
• Experience of managing a team and leading peopleHolds a Level 2/3 food safety certification
• Basic knowledge of weight legislation and allergen awareness/ practical management of allergens
• Experienced working with computer systems
• Understanding of internal audit process and technical key performance indicators
• Has CCP training including Hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP) principles for Manufacturing Unit
• Experience and knowledge of good manufacturing practice (GMP)
• Demonstratable non-conformance reporting techniques
• Microbiological awareness – understanding of basic of food safety
• Basic knowledge of hygiene principles and legal labelling practice

What you’ll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
• Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.