Quality Assurance Technologist

​The Rewards and Benefits on offer:

• A full time and permanent role from day one!

• A competitive basic salary!

• Excellent company culture

• Generous holiday allowance

• An opportunity within a growing and successful business

• Immediate starts available

• Fantastic work culture

MTrec’s new client opportunities:

MTrec recruitment are representing our industry leading manufacturing client based in the heart of Midlothian. The business is a well-established company and are looking to expand their talented quality team by recruiting a full time and permanent QA Technologist.

If you meet the person specification below, apply now for an immediate response!

The Job you will do:

• Drive continuous improvement across quality, cost control, waste reduction, and efficiency

• Ensure compliance with company policies, procedures, and safe working practices

• Complete customer questionnaires and prepare product specifications

• Support communication with suppliers, customers, and certification bodies on quality matters

• Coordinate audits and maintain accreditation standards

• Perform stock checks on quarantined materials

• Inspect retained samples and approve product release where required

• Conduct in-process quality checks across production

• Prepare compliance and analysis certificates

• Carry out laboratory testing (e.g., yield, seal strength, friction, solvent levels)

• Prepare and dispatch customer samples

• Produce internal and customer reports

• Lead root cause investigations and implement corrective actions

• Manage customer complaints and response processes

• Hold quality review meetings and analyse trends in issues

• Conduct hygiene inspections and glass audits

• Maintain housekeeping and hygiene standards

• Deliver training on quality and hygiene procedures and keep records

• Support quality management systems, including traceability, recalls, supplier issues, and internal audits

About you:

• Good organisational and time management skills

• Ideally you will be from a food manufacturing background or similar.

• It is essential you are experienced with BRCGS and HACCP

• High standards of personal conduct and professional performance

• Effective written and verbal communication skills

• Good team player; ability to work as part of a team and alone on own initiative

• Ability to think and plan ahead

• Reliable and flexible to manage changing priorities

• Accurate with good attention to detail

• A positive, proactive and constructive approach to problem solving