Key Operative – Quality Control

Food Manufacturing | Shift-Based Role

🔎 Are you a quality-focused person who knows what good looks like?

Are you experienced in food manufacturing or production and have a strong eye for detail?

Do you take pride in maintaining high standards and have the confidence to speak up when something isn’t right?

We’re currently recruiting for a Key Operative – Quality Control to join a busy food manufacturing operation.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who wants to take on greater responsibility on the production floor and play an important role in ensuring food safety, quality and compliance standards are maintained throughout the shift.

🚀 What makes this role different?

This isn’t simply a role where you’ll carry out quality checks.

You’ll become a key point of responsibility for quality and food safety across the production floor, working closely with production, technical and hygiene teams to identify issues, maintain standards and ensure problems are dealt with quickly.

You’ll also have the opportunity to support and guide production colleagues, including helping to train new employees and agency workers on relevant quality and hygiene procedures.

🛡️ What will you be responsible for?

Your responsibilities will include:

• Taking ownership of quality and food safety standards throughout your shift.

• Ensuring production activities comply with site quality procedures, food safety standards and customer specifications.

• Monitoring HACCP controls, CCP checks and quality procedures.

• Carrying out regular quality checks across production lines.

• Checking finished products against approved specifications and customer requirements.

• Identifying and escalating quality or food safety concerns.

• Supporting investigations and corrective actions when issues occur.

• Assessing incoming raw materials and ingredients against required standards.

• Collecting and preparing samples for testing and laboratory analysis where required.

• Monitoring production processes to ensure quality and compliance are maintained.

• Maintaining accurate quality records, inspection reports and traceability documentation.

• Supporting the monitoring of quality KPIs, including product compliance, waste and process deviations.

• Supporting production teams in maintaining food safety and quality standards.

• Helping train new employees and agency workers on quality and hygiene procedures.

• Maintaining excellent housekeeping and hygiene standards across the production floor.

• Identifying opportunities to improve processes, reduce waste and strengthen compliance.

The role involves working closely with Operations, Technical and Hygiene teams to address quality issues and continuously improve standards.

👷 What are we looking for?

We’re looking for someone who can take responsibility and isn’t afraid to challenge standards when necessary.

You’ll ideally have:

• Previous experience within a production or food manufacturing environment.

• Experience or knowledge of quality control, food safety or compliance.

• Excellent attention to detail.

• The confidence to take responsibility and support colleagues.

• Good written and verbal communication skills.

• The ability to work effectively in a fast-paced production environment.

• The ability to identify and respond to operational or quality issues.

• A reliable and proactive approach.

• A genuine commitment to maintaining high production standards.

• Relevant qualifications, training or experience in a similar role.

⭐ Ready to take the next step?

If you have experience in food manufacturing and are ready to take on a role where your decisions and attention to detail directly contribute to product quality and food safety, this could be the opportunity for you.

You’ll be joining a team where maintaining standards is everyone’s responsibility – but where you’ll play a particularly important role in making sure those standards are consistently met.

📩 Apply today

If you’re interested in finding out more about this Key Operative – Quality Control opportunity, get in touch today.

Apply now and take the next step in your manufacturing career.

JDRBelfast