Overview
Quality Specialist – FMCG
Quality Specialist – Our client, a leading FMCG organisation based in South Tipperary, is seeking a Quality Specialist to join their dynamic and fast‑paced Quality team. Reporting to the Quality Manager, the successful candidate will play a key role in executing internal controls, supporting auditing activities, and ensuring full compliance with industry Food Safety standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct internal audits, including structural, traceability, and document control reviews
- Maintain, review, and update site HACCP plans
- Validate the site’s quality management systems on a daily basis
- Review and update documentation, SOPs, and check sheets
- Investigate customer complaints and ensure timely close‑out
- Lead and support quality improvement projects
- Facilitate and assist with customer traceability requests
- Ensure compliance with legislative, BRC, NSAI/HSE, and customer standards
- Carry out product sampling and investigate non‑conformances through to close‑out
- Conduct hygiene reviews across the site
- Verify final product labels for accuracy and compliance
- Report supplier non‑conformances and follow up as required
- Participate in 3rd‑party audits and manage resulting non‑conformance close‑outs
- Collaborate closely with QA team members to ensure ongoing product safety
- Ensure all finished products meet required food safety and quality specifications
The ideal candidate will possess:
- A minimum recognised Diploma in a food discipline or a B.Sc. in a science-related field
- At least one years’ QA/QC experience within a food manufacturing environment (preferred)
- Strong self‑motivation and the ability to work independently
- A collaborative mindset and strong team‑working skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication abilities
- Basic computer literacy
- Strong problem‑solving skills and sound decision‑making ability
- High attention to detail and a commitment to accuracy