Quality Assurance

Take ownership of food safety and quality standards while helping ensure products are delivered right first time, every time. Role Overview As a Technical Advanced Operator, you'll play a key role within the Technical team, supporting the delivery of safe, legal, and high-quality products across the site. Working closely with Production and Technical colleagues, you'll help maintain compliance with customer, company, and regulatory standards while promoting a culture where food safety and quality are at the heart of everything we do. Key Duties

• Ensure production areas and equipment are operating to the required food safety, hygiene, and performance standards before production begins.
• Verify products consistently meet customer specifications, legal requirements, and internal standards.
• Inspect incoming raw materials and ingredients to confirm compliance with site specifications.
• Monitor and calibrate weighing and temperature monitoring equipment, escalating issues where required.
• Check product labelling to ensure accuracy and compliance.
• Carry out routine quality, food safety, and process audits in line with site procedures.
• Identify, investigate, and report non-conformances, supporting effective corrective actions.
• Collect product samples for laboratory analysis and testing.
• Support production teams with the accurate completion of quality and food safety records.
• Carry out process control checks throughout production to ensure product specifications are maintained.
• Promote a right-first-time culture and support continuous improvement across the operation.
• Communicate any issues that may impact product quality, food safety, or production performance. Ideal Candidate
• Level 2 Food Hygiene qualification or equivalent.
• Experience within a food manufacturing, quality, technical, or compliance environment.
• Knowledge of quality auditing and process verification activities.
• Understanding of food safety, product quality, and manufacturing standards.
• Experience working within chilled, frozen, or food production environments would be advantageous.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to identify and investigate issues.
• Able to prioritise workloads and manage multiple activities effectively.
• Good communication skills and confidence working with production teams.
• Competent using Microsoft Office and electronic recording systems.
• Strong literacy and numeracy skills with a focus on accuracy.
• A proactive approach and commitment to maintaining high standards across the site. Why Join Us? This is an excellent opportunity to develop your technical and quality assurance experience within a fast-paced food manufacturing environment. You'll work closely with both Technical and Production teams, gain exposure to key food safety and compliance processes, and play an important role in maintaining the standards our customers expect. In return, you'll benefit from competitive pay, career development opportunities, company pension, life assurance, health and wellbeing support, an online benefits hub, referral programme, canteen facilities, and on-site parking. About Sofina Sofina Foods is more than just a food company. It's a place where you can grow your career, learn new skills, and make a positive impact. With a wide range of meat and seafood products that delight consumers worldwide, Sofina Foods is always looking for talented and passionate people to join its team of over 13,000 employees across 40 sites in Canada and Europe. At Sofina Foods, you will be part of a culture that values innovation, quality, sustainability, and customer satisfaction. You will work with diverse and delicious products that are sourced responsibly and sustainably from over 50 different protein sources from 5 continents. Our vision is to be the most successful food company in the world. If you are looking for a rewarding and exciting career in the food sector, Sofina Foods is the place for you.