Quality Technologist

Redfox Executive Selection Ltd; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading player in the fresh produce industry is seeking a highly motivated Quality Technologist. This home-based role entails maintaining product quality, supporting growers, and ensuring compliance. The ideal candidate will have strong interpersonal skills, experience in Soft Fruit, and a willingness to travel across the UK, ideally with experience working with major retailers like Tesco. A fully expensed company car is included.

Benefits

Fully expensed company car

Qualifications

• Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• Excellent organisational and time management abilities.
• Experience of Soft Fruit.
• Willingness to travel within the UK and occasionally abroad.
• Experience working with major UK retailers, ideally Tesco.

Responsibilities

• Maintain product quality and compliance with suppliers and packhouses.
• Provide technical support and conduct audits.
• Manage fruit quality through site visits and communication.
• Analyse data and report trends to influence decisions.
• Collaborate with teams to deliver quality objectives.
• Help minimise product claims and rejections.

Skills

Interpersonal and negotiation skills

Organisational and time management abilities

Flexibility to adapt to changing priorities

Experience in Soft Fruit

Experience with major UK retailers

Job description

Overview

A leading player in the fresh produce industry is seeking a highly motivated Quality Technologist to join their technical team. This role is perfect for someone passionate about delivering excellent product quality, supporting growers and packhouses, and ensuring compliance with legislative and customer standards.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with suppliers and packhouses to maintain product quality and compliance.
• Provide technical support, conduct audits, and create action plans to drive improvements.
• Proactively manage fruit quality through regular site visits and communication.
• Analyse data and report on trends to influence supplier and commercial decision-making.
• Collaborate with internal teams and customer technical managers to deliver on quality objectives.
• Help minimise product claims and rejections while supporting the customer and supplier plans.

Key Requirements

• Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills, with the ability to engage internal and external stakeholders.
• Excellent organisational and time management abilities, capable of working under pressure.
• Flexibility to adapt to changing priorities and support the wider technical agenda.
• Experience of Soft Fruit.
• A willingness to travel within the UK and occasionally abroad.
• Experience working with major UK retailers - ideally Tesco.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in ensuring high-quality standards in the supply chain and to support the delivery of exceptional products to customers.

This is a home-based role and includes access to a fully expensed company car as you will be expected to travel frequently throughout the UK.

For a confidential chat about this role or any other vacancies we have, please give Ian Reed a call at Redfox or get your application in via this website without delay quoting ref: 5879IR