Quality Assurance Specialist

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Posting Date: 17 Apr 2025

Location:

Northampton, GB

Entity / company: Carlsberg Marston’s Brewing Company

Quality Assurance Specialist

Job Title: Quality Assurance Specialist

Location: Northampton Brewery – NN1

Job Length: Permanent – Full Time

Competitive Salary with extensive benefits:

• Product allowance – alcoholic & non alcoholic choices available
• Company bonus scheme
• Life Assurance
• Access to 24/7 GP services
• Company pension contribution
• Generous holiday
• Access to a range of high street discounts

Carlsberg Britvic is the largest multi-beverage supplier in the UK and is home to some of the most iconic and popular beers & soft drinks, including Carlsberg Danish Pilsner, 1664, Poretti and Brooklyn to ale favourites such as Hobgoblin and Wainwright. For soft drinks, Carlsberg Britvic’s brands include J2O, Robinsons, Tango and London Essence along with the licence rights to the Pepsi portfolio in the UK including Pepsi MAX, 7UP, Lipton Iced Tea and Rockstar Energy.

With a strong national footprint, the Carlsberg Britvic business includes 6 production facilities and 16 logistics depot’s servicing customers up and down the UK. As these two historical businesses have come together, the one common goal remains, and that is ensuring our people succeed.

If you are interested in joining our journey, we are now recruiting for a Quality Assurance Specialist.Reporting to the Operational Quality Manager this role will play a key part of our success journey, and you will have the opportunity to be involved in all aspects of quality and food safety at our Northampton Brewery - from packaging materials and bright beer filling through to the warehouse, supporting all processes, policies and operations relating to the filling, packing and palletisation for all quality streams packaged.

Role Responsibilities:

• Drive improvements to Quality processes within the Production department using key Lean principles.
• Conduct, organise and take part in audits to ensure adherence to all relevant procedures and policies.
• Lead cross functional improvement initiatives and implement any agreed corrective action plans.
• Represent Quality at daily Production meetings, contributing expertise and any action plans needed for upcoming implementation.
• Establish appropriate hygiene standards, aligned with group GMP standards.
• Develop and improve Standard Operating Procedures/One Point Lessons and Troubleshooting Guides relevant to the Quality Department.
• Provide training and coaching to embed Quality knowledge across Production.
• Align with Procurement regarding the evaluation and monitoring of packaging material performance versus specification.
• Work closely with packaging material suppliers to ensure compliance to specification.
• Co-ordinate collation of local and group reporting metrics, including KPI’s.
• Involvement in all new plant, process or product trials and implementation, carrying out full risk assessment to provide pre-requisite requirements, critical control points, quality control points, training and communication etc.
• Participate in HACCP reviews for relevant areas.
• On call for escalation on a rota basis.

Experience and Key Attributes:

• Previous experience within a brewing, food manufacturing, drinks industry with a fast-paced packaging line
• Committed to developing a high-performance team and culture, focusing on continuous improvement
• IT Literate. Previous SAP experience preferred
• Auditing experience would be beneficial
• Self-motivated with strong organisational skills
• Intermediate HACCP and an understanding of BRC, ISO 9001 and 22000
• Experience with Lean Skills/ 5S/ Root Cause Analysis/ Gemba Kaizen and SPC
• Management of small-scale research projects and trials

This is an exciting time to join our newly formed business – with their incredible individual history’s, innovation of products and some of the UK’s most iconic brands, Carlsberg Britvic strives to deliver the best service to our customers and consumers. We aim to make a difference, bringing together two diverse companies, our global reach enables opportunity, growth and a chance to work with some fantastic people.

Interested in finding out more? Apply today and a member of the recruitment team will be in touch!

Application Process:

We read applications continuously, and vacancies may be filled anytime, so please apply as early as possible.
We look forward to receiving your application

CMBC is a new company, fuelled by highly engaged, empowered and passionate employees who will go above and beyond to deliver best in class customer service and help grow our portfolio of brands and business. With their entrepreneurial spirit, these employees take personal accountability and initiative to act and find solutions. Our employees work hard and have fun, enjoying supportive relationships that extend across the whole business.