Quality Technician (1 year FTC)

Cranswick Country Foods; Yaxley; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food manufacturing company is seeking a Quality Technologist in Yaxley, England for maternity cover. You will perform critical food safety and quality checks, maintain high standards of cleanliness, and assist in site quality initiatives. The ideal candidate will have Food Safety Level 2 certification, strong attention to detail, and teamwork skills. Offering £14.89 p/h, pension enrollment, and opportunities for progression.

Benefits

Company pension enrolment

Retail discounts

Free onsite parking

Access to canteen facilities

Death in service insurance

Qualifications

• Experience within a technical QA or QC based role.

Responsibilities

• Complete food safety, quality, and legal checks.
• Ensure accurate record keeping meeting required standards.
• Comply with GMP requirements, ensuring cleanliness.
• Escalate and record any issues regarding standards.

Skills

Good literacy and numeracy skills

Works to a high degree of accuracy

Ability to work well in a team

Education

Food Safety Level 2

Job description

Overview

Cranswick Country Foods Poultry is hiring at our brand new, purpose-built processing facility in Eye, Suffolk. This is a great opportunity for anyone looking to start or progress their career in the food industry and work for one of the largest integrated poultry businesses in the UK, playing your part in helping us feed the Nation!

As part of our exciting expansion project we are recruiting for QT maternity cover – fixed term contract. This position is Quality Technologist (QT) or sometimes referred to as PC for our backshift working Monday – Friday 17:10-01:40.

Responsibilities

• Complete agreed food safety, quality, due diligence and legal checks, on time in full at quality, meeting or exceeding site and customer requirements. These are to include Start up, temperature, X Ray, metal detection and label verification
• Ensure accurate record keeping in line with required standards demonstrating attention to detail
• Complying to site standard GMP requirements, including all areas of the factory, warehouse, workstations, equipment, walkways and locker rooms. Clean as you go to site standards
• To ensure a timely escalation to the team supervisor of any situations that fall out of the required site or customer standards and ensuring that any corrective actions are recorded and followed through to conclusion
• To actively participate in site quality and technical initiatives to ensure that the product produced is on time, in full, at quality
• Assist the QA team, with customer site visits and other third party audits

What you will need

• Food Safety Level 2
• Good literacy and numeracy skills
• Experience within a technical QA or QC based role
• Works to a high degree of accuracy
• Works well in a team

Pay and benefits

• Salary – £14.89 p/h (including attendance bonus)
• Company pension enrolment
• Access to our Cranswick hub, with retail discounts and a range of other perks
• Share of the profits with our discounted ShareScheme
• Potential opportunities to learn new skills and progress through one of the UK’s leading food manufacturing companies
• Death in service insurance
• Free onsite parking and canteen facilities

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Closing Date: 20th of December 2025 (please note that should we receive significant interest, this closing date may be brought forward)