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Quality Assurance Specialist
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Salary: GBP28,000 - GBP31,000 + Enhanced Company Pension
Location: Redditch
Shift: Monday to Friday 3:00pm - 11:30pm
Company Overview
Our client is a well-established manufacturing business operating within a highly regulated environment. With continued investment in its people, systems, and facilities, the company offers excellent long-term career opportunities within a quality-focused operation. Due to continued growth, they are looking to strengthen their Quality team with the appointment of a Quality Assurance Specialist.
The Role
As a Quality Assurance Specialist, you will play a key role in maintaining food safety, quality, and compliance standards across a busy manufacturing operation.
Working closely with Technical, Production, and Operational teams, you will ensure quality systems are adhered to, support investigations, conduct audits, and help drive continuous improvement initiatives across the site.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct internal audits covering GMP, hygiene, traceability, product quality, documentation, and manufacturing processes, ensuring corrective actions are completed effectively.
- Investigate quality, food safety, and compliance issues, including customer complaints, non-conforming products, and process deviations.
- Support the management and verification of quality control equipment and systems used within production.
- Manage non-conformance, concession, and quarantine processes, ensuring issues are resolved within agreed timescales.
- Support validation activities, internal audits, traceability exercises, and continuous improvement projects.
- Provide guidance and support to operational teams to promote high standards of food safety, quality, and compliance.
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Requirements
- Minimum 2 years experience within a food manufacturing, Quality Assurance, Technical, or Production environment.
- Food Safety qualification (Level 2 or above).
- Internal auditing experience.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office applications.
- Strong communication and organizational skills.
Desirable
- Experience within a high-care or regulated manufacturing environment.
- Qualification in Food Science, Food Safety, Food Quality, or a related discipline.
- HACCP qualification (Foundation Level or above).
- Formal Internal Auditor training.
Benefits
- 30 days annual leave
- Enhanced company pension scheme.
- Life assurance scheme (4x annual salary).
- Additional employee benefits package.
- Ongoing training and professional development opportunities.
- Opportunity to join a growing and stable manufacturing organization.
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Hunter Selection Limited is a recruitment consultancy with offices UK wide, specialising in permanent and contract roles within Engineering and Manufacturing, IT and Digital, Science and Technology, and Service and Sales sectors.
Please note as we receive a high level of applications we can only respond to applicants whose skills and qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010.
For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.
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