Quality Assurance Technician
Farne Salmon & Trout Ltd
Tuesday - Saturday 0600-1400
£29,355.00 per annum
Company Overview
Farne Salmon & Trout, based in the picturesque Borders of Scotland, is a leading salmon processing company dedicated to producing the finest smoked salmon. With a core workforce of approximately 700 employees, we are committed to excellence, sustainability, and creating a positive working environment rooted in our core values of responsibility, performance, people, environment, customers, and communication.
Summary
Are you passionate about food safety, quality, and maintaining the highest standards? We’re looking for a proactive and detail-focused Quality Assurance Technician (QA) to join our technical team and play a key role in ensuring product compliance, food safety, and quality standards are consistently achieved across our production areas.
Reporting to the Technical Managers / Compliance Manager, you’ll provide hands-on support within production, carrying out inspections, verification activities, and real-time quality assessments. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys working in a fast-paced manufacturing environment and wants to contribute directly to product quality, customer satisfaction, and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
- Carry out food safety and quality inspections, checks, validations, and verification activities across production areas.
- Provide hands-on technical support and guidance to Production teams, ensuring compliance with food safety, quality, and GMP standards.
- Conduct swabbing, sampling, visual assessments, and other verification activities, escalating any issues promptly.
- Investigate and support corrective actions relating to food safety, quality, or process concerns.
- Support foreign body investigations and use a risk-based approach to resolve issues effectively.
- Complete and maintain accurate documentation, records, and computer-based logs.
- Assist with audits, HACCP activities, allergen control, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Work collaboratively with Production, Hygiene, Engineering, and NPD teams to drive standards and improve performance.
- Use SAP/Core systems to support traceability, stock management, and product compliance activities.
Qualifications
- Experienced within a food manufacturing environment, ideally high-care or high-risk.
- Knowledgeable in food safety, HACCP, GMP, and quality verification processes.
- Confident working hands-on within production environments.
- Detail-oriented with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- A strong communicator who can engage professionally with teams across the business.
- Proactive, organised, and capable of working effectively in a fast-paced environment.
- A collaborative team player with a continuous improvement mindset.
If you are passionate about maintaining the highest standards of quality in a dynamic environment, we invite you to bring your expertise to Farne Salmon & Trout. Join us in our journey towards excellence—your next career move awaits!
Pay: £29,355.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
Work Location: In person
