Quality Supervisor
Job Purpose
The Quality Supervisor is responsible for maintaining and monitoring food safety, quality, hygiene, and legality standards within a fresh produce packhouse. The role ensures all packed products meet legal requirements, customer specifications, and third-party assurance standards, with particular focus on high-risk fresh produce, short shelf-life control, and chilled-chain integrity.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor food safety and quality across intake, storage, packing, labelling, and dispatch operations
- Conduct in-process and finished product quality checks,
- Verify temperature control of produce, chillers, packhouse areas, and outbound vehicles
- Ensure compliance with retailer specifications, customer codes of practice, and quality standards
- Support and maintain the site HACCP system
- Investigate, document, and report non-conformances
- Monitor Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) across production
- Verify cleaning schedules, chemical usage, and sanitation effectiveness
- Support pest control monitoring and corrective actions
- Support shelf-life monitoring and quality retention assessments
- Verify traceability and mass-balance records from intake to dispatch
- Ensure accurate labelling, date coding, grower identification, and country of origin
- Assist with mock recalls and traceability exercises
- Support compliance with BRCGS, retailer, internal, and customer audits
- Maintain accurate, real-time, auditable food safety and quality records
Skills & Competencies
Essential:
- Strong understanding of fresh produce food safety and quality control
- Working knowledge of HACCP, GMP, and UK food safety legislation
- High attention to detail with a structured, methodical approach
- Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced, seasonal environment
- Confident communicator, able to challenge non-compliance appropriately
Desirable:
- Experience with UK retailer specifications
- Internal auditing experience
- Experience with short shelf-life products
Qualifications
Essential:
- Level 2 Food Safety & Hygiene
Desirable:
- Level 3 Food Safety & Hygiene
- HACCP Level 2 or Level 3
- Internal Auditor qualification
- Degree or qualification in Food Science, Food Technology, or related discipline
Experience
- Previous experience in a quality, food safety, or technical role within a fresh produce or food packing environment
- Experience in soft fruit packhouse operations highly advantageous
- Experience working in chilled, high-volume production environments preferred
For further information, please contact Luan Harrison at MorePeople on 01780 480530