Quality Assurance Support
Location: Waterford, Ireland
Job type: Full-time permeant
The Role
Our client is seeking an experienced Quality Assurance Support professional to join their food manufacturing team. Reporting directly to the QA Manager, this role will support the day-to-day Quality Assurance programme across the site, ensuring products, processes and documentation consistently meet food safety, quality, regulatory and customer requirements.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone with previous QA experience within food manufacturing who enjoys a varied role combining documentation, production checks, supplier management, auditing and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the day-to-day Quality Assurance programme across the site.
- Maintain, review and update quality documentation and SOPs, ensuring they remain aligned with operational and certification requirements.
- Coordinate supplier approvals, assessments and ongoing monitoring, ensuring compliance with agreed quality and product requirements.
- Review and approve raw material and packaging specifications and technical documentation, working closely with suppliers to ensure information remains accurate and up to date.
- Prepare and maintain accurate batch production records.
- Coordinate document change control procedures.
- Conduct and document regular product inspections throughout production, including batch release.
- Carry out and document routine production process checks and hygiene inspections, including hard plastics audits.
- Maintain the product sampling schedule, including environmental monitoring.
- Log and investigate quality issues and follow up on corrective and preventative actions.
- Support regulatory, customer and third-party audits.
- Work closely with production and other internal teams to maintain and continuously improve quality and food safety standards.
The Ideal Candidate
The successful candidate will have:
- Previous experience in Quality Assurance within a food manufacturing environment.
- Good knowledge of HACCP, food safety standards and quality management systems.
- Experience maintaining, updating and controlling quality documentation.
- A third-level qualification or degree in Food Science, Food Technology or a related discipline would be highly advantageous.
- Strong attention to detail and excellent organisational skills.
- The ability to identify quality issues, investigate root causes and follow up on corrective actions.
- Good communication skills and the confidence to work with production teams, suppliers and other stakeholders.
- A proactive approach to quality and food safety.
- The ability to work independently while also contributing effectively as part of a wider team.
How to Apply:
If you are interested and meet the above criteria, please apply with your CV to Hannah at Hannah.sullivan@hartleypeople.com or give a call on 051 878 813
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