QA Supervisor

Danish Crown A/S; Rochdale; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Danish Crown UK is seeking a proactive QA specialist to own site quality assurance, ensuring compliance with BRCGS and HACCP, and driving continuous improvement across the factory.

You will lead the QA team, plan audits, monitor KPIs, analyse results, and mentor production colleagues to uphold food safety standards. This role offers operational autonomy and growth within a collaborative organisation.

Qualifications

• Proven QA/technical experience within a food factory environment.
• Strong leadership and mentoring capabilities.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead, schedule and mentor the QA team while overseeing daily activities, schedules and sampling programmes.
• Monitor, analyse and trend compliance KPIs and test results to manage non-conformances.
• Ensure adherence to BRCGS, HACCP and food safety legislation through audits and risk assessments.
• Assist in preparing for internal, third-party and regulatory audits and manage visits.

Skills

QA experience

Leadership

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Food Hygiene Certification

Tools

MS Office

KPI Reporting

Job description

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Take ownership of shop-floor quality control and technical analytical reporting in an impactful role that safeguards food safety and drives continuous improvement across our site.

What you will be doing

You will join our busy technical department to take ownership of managing our site QAs, ensuring compliance with site policies, procedures and customer standards across a dynamic site environment.

• Leading, scheduling and mentoring the QA team while supervising daily technical activities, factory schedules and sampling programmes.
• Monitoring, analysing and trending compliance KPIs, environmental swabbing and test results to proactively manage non-conformances and customer complaints.
• Maintaining site adherence to BRCGS, HACCP, customer codes of practice and food safety legislation through regular process audits, risk assessments and validation tasks.
• Assisting in preparing for and executing internal, third-party, customer and regulatory audits, with the capability to manage visits independently.
• Fostering a strong food safety culture across the business through regular interviews, quarterly meetings and collaborative coaching with production teams.

What you will bring

We are looking for a dedicated, flexible and proactive team member who can plan their work effectively and deliver high-quality results. You will combine analytical precision with strong interpersonal skills to lead teams, solve problems and build good relationships across departments in a fast-paced environment.

• Experience: Proven QA/technical experience within a food factory environment, including conducting internal audits, managing non-conformances and holding independent capability during external BRCGS audits.
• Soft Skills: Excellent communication skills, effective leadership and mentoring capabilities, alongside the flexibility to multitask and work well under pressure to meet tight deadlines.
• Hard Skills: Food Hygiene certification, strong knowledge of HACCP, food legislation, basic food microbiology and proficiency in Microsoft Office applications for KPI trending and report writing.

Joining our team gives you daily operational autonomy over your workload while making a direct impact on site-wide quality standards, food safety and continuous improvement across processes.

Working alongside collaborative production and operations teams, you will develop deep technical expertise across all site processes in a varied and supportive environment. It is an ideal role for someone who takes pride in their work, wants to sharpen their leadership and audit capabilities and wants to grow within an inclusive, ambitious organisation.

About us

Danish Crown UK is a business built on trust, teamwork and ambition. We exist to deliver food that people believe in, and we know that takes strong leadership and collaborative cultures.

Our leadership principles guide us. We act for the good of the whole organisation. We hire brilliant people and help them grow. We are ambitious, curious and open to new ideas. We build trust by accepting mistakes as part of development. We believe real leadership is earned through example, not title.

Whoever joins us will help create a workplace where people feel safe to speak up, share ideas, challenge old ways of working and stretch themselves to achieve more. If that sounds like an environment where you would thrive, we would love to hear from you.