Quality Assurance Supervisor

Dunbia Group; Bedford; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food processing company in Bedford is seeking candidates for a role in Food Safety and Quality. The position involves ensuring product quality, conducting inspections, and maintaining health and safety standards. Ideal candidates will have experience in fast-paced environments and excel in multitasking and detail orientation.

Qualifications

• Experience in a fast-paced food manufacturing environment is required; meat processing knowledge is a plus.
• Understanding of Health and Safety requirements.
• Good standard of English is essential.

Responsibilities

• Ensure quality standards are adhered to by collaborating with FSQ and Operations teams.
• Identify and resolve quality issues before product dispatch.
• Carry out inspections and maintain quality records.

Skills

Attention to detail

Multitasking

Organisational skills

Interpersonal skills

Job description

Overview:

We are actively seeking applications from individuals keen to take up a career within one of Europe’s leading food processing companies. This is an opportunity to join well-established teams in Food Safety and Quality (FSQ), and Operations.

Working hours: 40 per week, Monday to Friday 6am to 3pm

Pay: £13.42 rising to £15.16 per hour after probation

Responsibilities

The successful candidate will work within departments on the shop floor, collaborating with the FSQ and Operations teams to ensure FSQ procedures are followed to the highest standards, delivering products of the highest quality to our customers.

Key Duties (but not limited to):

• Ensure quality issues are minimised, not repeated, and ideally do not occur.
• Identify issues prior to dispatch.
• Support the follow-up of corrective actions, ensuring non-conformances are investigated with root cause analysis, and corrective strategies are implemented.
• Set and monitor daily KPIs, including:
• Taking daily micro samples.
• Carrying out various pre-start checks throughout the factory, including sterilizers.
• Performing label and weight checks for consistency.
• Conducting daily contamination checks as appropriate.
• Fully completing, recording, and storing all quality records.
• Performing hygiene inspections.
• Collecting and logging product samples and environmental swabs.
• Carrying out internal site audits as per schedule and following up on findings.
• Maintaining full traceability throughout the process.

Qualifications

Experience and Qualification:

• Experience in a fast-paced food manufacturing environment; meat processing experience is desirable.
• Ability to prioritise, multitask, and remain calm under pressure to meet strict deadlines.
• Understanding of Health and Safety requirements.
• Excellent interpersonal, organisational, time management, and attention to detail skills.
• A good standard of English is essential due to the tasks involved.

INDMP

No company sponsorship is available to overseas applicants for this position.