QA Supervisor

Greencore Group plc; Northampton; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and job-related ben

Competitive matched pension provisions

Life insurance up to 4x salary

Company share save scheme

Greencore Qualifications

Exclusive Greencore employee discount

Wellbeing Centre access

Enhanced parental leave and menopause

Job summary

Greencore Group plc in Northampton is seeking a QA Supervisor on a fixed-term basis to support the QA team in ensuring safety and conformity of all materials and finished products to specifications, legislation and customer requirements.

As QA Supervisor you will lead audits, KPI tracking, train staff, build production team capability, investigate non-conformances, and coordinate organoleptic panels while upholding health, safety and GMP standards across a busy food manufacturing site.

Qualifications

• 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/practical management of allergens
• Experience and knowledge of good manufacturing practice (GMP)
• Has CCP training including Hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP) principles for Manufacturing Unit
• Demonstratable non-conformance reporting techniques
• Microbiological awareness - understanding of basic of food safety
• Basic knowledge of hygiene principles and legal labelling practice

Responsibilities

• Complete audits and KPI monitoring for compliance
• Train the team to adopt new processes and procedures
• Build production team capability and communication of technical standards
• Investigate customer complaints or non-conformances and provide data for resolution
• Organise organoleptic panel for consistent quality
• Ensure safe working environment and health and safety standards
• Support QA management and ensure tasks align with schedules
• Monitor micro results and initiate investigations
• Collaborate with hygiene team for swabbing and hygiene audits

Skills

QA leadership

HACCP principles

GMP knowledge

Allergen awareness

Food safety

Auditing

Microbiological awareness

Hygiene audits

Education

Higher National Diploma

Job description

As QA Supervisor (FTC) 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
• 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/ 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

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 every day 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., At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together we make every day taste better.

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Competitive matched pension contributions
• 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