Quality Technician

Job Description

Interim QA Support – 8 Weeks Minimum (Food Manufacturing)

Salary:
Day Rate

Location:
Greater London

Work Pattern:
Monday – Friday (Business Hours)

A well-established food manufacturing business is seeking a detail‑oriented Interim QA/QC Technician to join its Quality and Technical team. This is an excellent opportunity for a food industry professional who is passionate about food safety, quality assurance, compliance, and continuous improvement.

Working closely with the Technical and NPD functions, you will play a key role in ensuring products are manufactured to the highest food safety and quality standards while supporting audits, compliance activities, and quality systems across the site.

• Ensure compliance with food safety standards, quality systems, and internal procedures.
• Maintain and oversee technical and production documentation, ensuring records are accurately completed, signed off, and securely filed.
• Monitor food safety controls throughout production, ensuring adherence to HACCP, GMP, hygiene, and quality requirements.
• Carry out CCP verification activities, including metal detector, sieve, and compliance checks.
• Conduct internal audits and inspections, identify non‑conformances, and support corrective and preventative actions.
• Coordinate equipment calibration, maintenance documentation, and routine cleaning schedules.
• Manage product and environmental sampling programmes, including arranging external laboratory testing.
• Deliver food safety, GMP, hygiene, allergen, and SOP training, including inductions and refresher sessions.
• Support customer, third‑party, and regulatory audits, ensuring documentation and traceability records are audit ready.
• Perform routine GMP, hygiene, technical, and foreign body audits across the site.
• Monitor product changeovers, allergen controls, cleaning verification, and labelling compliance.
• Conduct product quality assessments, including sensory, physical, and chemical testing.
• Ensure maintenance sign‑off procedures are completed before equipment is released back into production.
• Promote PPE compliance, hygiene standards, and a strong food safety culture throughout the business.
• Review supplier documentation, Certificates of Analysis (CoAs), specifications, and audit reports to ensure ingredient compliance.
• Provide support to NPD activities and assist with wider technical team responsibilities when required.

• Previous experience within a QA, QC, Technical, or Food Safety role in food manufacturing.
• Good understanding of HACCP, GMP, food hygiene, and quality management systems.
• Experience conducting audits, inspections, and compliance checks.
• Strong attention to detail and excellent record‑keeping skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities.
• Good communication skills with the confidence to train and support colleagues.
• Experience supporting customer, third‑party, or regulatory audits would be advantageous.
• Knowledge of allergen management, traceability, and food safety legislation is desirable.

If you have a passion for food safety, quality assurance, and maintaining high standards within a manufacturing environment, we would be keen to hear from you.