Symrise AG
QA Specifications Technologist (m/f/d)
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About Us
Symrise is a global supplier of fragrances and flavors, cosmetic active ingredients as well as functional ingredients. Its customers include perfume, cosmetics, food and beverage manufacturers, the pharmaceutical industry and producers of dietary supplements and pet food.
With sales of around €4.9 billion in the 2025 financial year, the company is one of the world's leading providers. The Group, headquartered in Holzminden, Germany, has more than 100 locations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, Asia, the USA and Latin America.
Together with its customers, Symrise develops new ideas and market-ready concepts for products that form an indispensable part of everyday life. Economic success and corporate responsibility are inextricably linked.
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Your Role
As part of the Quality team, this role is responsible for ensuring that all inspection, testing, and food safety processes for raw materials and finished products are correctly defined, maintained, and compliant. The position plays a key role in safeguarding product quality by aligning SAP inspection plans with HACCP principles, customer requirements, and internal standards, while actively supporting audits, supplier approvals, environmental monitoring, and continuous improvement across the site.
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Your key responsibilities:
- Create, maintain, and update SAP inspection plans for raw materials and finished products, ensuring alignment with HACCP categories, customer requirements, the company contaminant matrix, and food safety standards.
- Ensure ongoing compliance with internal, customer, and external standards (ISO 9001, ISO 14001, FSSC 22000), supporting audits, traceability exercises, and certification activities.
- Manage supplier-related quality activities, including raw material approval in the Supplier DMS system and maintenance of Kosher and Halal material data.
- Own routine quality and food safety controls, including environmental monitoring (swabbing), factory inspections (hygiene, GMP, glass, traceability), CCP audits, and verification of corrective actions.
- Maintain analytical equipment through routine calibration and servicing, coordinating with external service providers and ensuring accurate recordkeeping.
- Support cross-functional teams by contributing to customer questionnaires, HACCP activities, customer complaint investigations (including root cause analysis), and collaboration with Regulatory Affairs, Production, Supply Chain, Development, laboratories, and suppliers.
- Act as deputy for QC Technicians and the QA Supervisor when required and fulfil additional site responsibilities such as Zone Fire Warden duties.
- Ensure all mandatory training and retraining requirements are completed and kept up to date.
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Your Profile
- Experience within the food industry.
- Science or Food Technology qualification (or equivalent).
- HACCP Level 2 certification.
- Strong understanding of Food Safety, Quality systems, and audit requirements.
- Experience working with SAP inspection plans is an advantage.
- Structured, detail-oriented working style with strong documentation skills.
- Confident communicator able to work with cross-functional and external stakeholders.
What can you expect?
- Become part of our open and transparent culture. It will give you the opportunity to flourish and to develop inspiring experiences that contribute to the health and well-being of consumers in 160 countries around the world. Putting our employees in the focus fuels our strong company growth above market rates and makes us an excellent place to develop your career.
- Come join us and embark on a fascinating journey with Symrise.
If you feel that you fit the above criteria, then please apply by using our online application system. Your application will be treated confidentially.
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