Quality Assurance Technician

🍞 Quality Assurance (QA) Technician - Food Manufacturing

📍 Wigan | 💷 £25,000 - £27,000 | Site-based | Rotating shifts

If you're the kind of person who spots a label error from 3 metres away
, thinks "that doesn't look right" before anyone else does, and gets a weird amount of satisfaction from a properly completed QA record… I need to talk to you.

I'm recruiting for a Quality Assurance Technician role at a busy, established food manufacturing site in Wigan
. This is a hands-on QA position working closely with Production to make sure everything leaving site is safe, compliant, and exactly as it should be
.

You'll be part of the team that keeps standards high, customers happy, and audits calm (no last-minute chaos please).

• £25,000 - £27,000

• Site based (Wigan)

• Rotating shift pattern:

  • Shift 1: 6:00-14:30 Mon-Thurs | 6:00-13:30 Fri

  • Shift 2: 8:00-16:30 Mon-Thurs | 7:30-15:00 Fri

  • Shift 3: 11:30-22:00 Mon-Weds | 11:30-21:00 Thurs

You’ll be supporting quality and food safety across the site, including:

• Keeping QA paperwork accurate and up to date (the details matter here!)

• Monitoring product/site quality, hygiene standards and food safety controls

• Supporting investigations and customer complaints (root cause + corrective actions)

• Helping reduce waste and prevent non-conforming product

• Supporting customer visits and technical audits when needed

• Being a calm, organised presence when others are flapping

• 2+ years QA experience in manufacturing (food is ideal)

• HACCP + Food Safety qualifications (essential)

• Confident with documentation, inspections and quality checks

• Comfortable working rotating shifts

• Sharp eye for detail and the confidence to challenge issues early

📌
Important note: this employer cannot offer visa sponsorship
, so you’ll need full right to work in the UK.

If you’re open to hearing more, drop me a message or apply and I’ll send full details over.