Quality Specialist

Quality Specialist for a leading organization in plant-based food ingredients

As a member of the European Quality Assurance team, you play the role of Quality Specialist. You will assist the European Operations' quality department in implementing the quality plan and ensuring adherence to pertinent regulations and standards.

The role is new, and it is therefore important that you enjoy building processes, and working methods and that you are responsive and flexible.

The organization

The international organization strives for a sustainable and healthy world The organization is active in marketing vegetable oils and fats used as intermediate products for the food industry

Your Responsibilities 

• Supervise, follow-up, and interpret changes and support the implementation and maintenance of product-related certification standards such as FSSC 22000, BRC, organic, kosher, halal as well as European food legislation;
• Support and monitor risk assessments such as HACCP, food defense, and food fraud;
• Support in developing procedures and implementation of activities continuing to improve all quality-related activities;
• Provide quality-related training material;
• Review, analyze, and prepare reports, guidelines, and standard practices for data documentation and analysis.

• At least 4 years of experience in similar tasks, as it is important that you can settle into the work quickly;
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in any Food/Quality related education;
• Solid knowledge of regulatory and certification standards such as FSSC 22000 or BRC and relevant tools, methods, and concepts of quality assurance, e.g. Root Cause Analysis, Management of Change, Statistical Process Control, and validation;
• Experience working with  MS Office, SAP, tableau;
• Fluent in English and Dutch both spoken and written;
• You take responsibility for your performance, you are driven in your way of working, have strong attention to detail, and can deal with complexity;
• You are structured, disciplined, have great analytical skills, and enjoy working with numbers;
• Social skills are also a must, as you will be interacting with people from different cultures and backgrounds, as well as functions.

Salary will be around € 4000 - € 5000 gross a month based on 40 hours workweek.

What will happen when you apply? Within four working days we will let you know whether you are qualify for the position. If you do we will schedule an interview (digital or live). In this interview, we will inform you about the vacancy, the company and the procedure. If we both agree this is a fitting opportunity we will introduce you to our client and continue to guide you through the whole application process. The Independent Recruiters Group has a large team of specialized recruitment consultants. Every recruiter has a strong focus regarding his/her own field of expertise. This makes them the ideal sparring partner for both you, as the candidate, and the client.