Quality Assurance Technician

This is an exciting opportunity to join Refresco as a QA Technologist, where you'll help ensure our products meet the highest quality standards. You'll be involved in quality improvement activities, audits, investigations, sampling, traceability exercises and training support, working closely with site teams to drive continuous improvement and maintain a strong quality culture

• Drive quality improvement initiatives across the site, supporting a right-first-time culture and helping teams deliver exceptional product quality.
• Investigate quality issues and customer complaints, identifying root causes and implementing effective corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Conduct GMP, hygiene and quality compliance audits, ensuring high standards are maintained across all operations.
• Support product testing and quality monitoring activities, analysing results and escalating findings to drive continuous improvement.
• Lead traceability exercises and quality reviews, helping maintain robust processes and high levels of product consistency.
• Deliver training and coaching to operational teams, building quality awareness and supporting colleagues to achieve best practice standards

We're looking for a proactive and detail-focused individual who is passionate about quality. Experience within a food, drink or FMCG manufacturing environment would be beneficial, but this role could also suit someone looking to start their career in Quality. You'll have strong problem-solving skills, a keen eye for detail, and the confidence to investigate issues and support effective solutions. Whether you have relevant qualifications or practical industry experience, you'll enjoy working in a fast-paced environment as part of a team committed to continuous improvement and product excellence

Ultimately, we encourage everyone to role model our core values of agility, responsibility, passion, excellence, and entrepreneurship as we believe these are what has made Refresco successful so far.

Find out more about the Refresco Values here: https://www.refresco.co.uk/uk/about/our-values

If you fit this profile and are excited by this opportunity, we would be delighted to hear from you!

Refresco is the global independent beverage solutions provider for Global, National and Emerging brands, and retailers with production in Europe, North America, and Australia.

Refresco offers an extensive range of product and packaging combinations from juices to carbonated soft drinks and mineral waters in carton, PET, Aseptic PET, cans, and glass.

Refresco continuously searches for new and alternative ways to improve the quality of its products and packaging combinations in line with consumer and customer demand, environmental responsibilities, and market demand

Refresco is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and has more than 13,500 employees. www.refresco.com.

Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We're a global business and currently produce 12 billion litres of soft drinks from 64 manufacturing plants in 12 countries and we're only just getting started.

We're the proud owners of six drinks manufacturing sites within the UK. Our UK business provides a great place to work for over 1,800 employees, who produce private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers.

Whether it's packed in cartons, bottles or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards. Our products get where they need to be when they need to get there to meet the needs of our high-profile customers.

Refresco believes that equal opportunity for all is fundamental to our company's values and all our applicants can expect fairness and transparency in our recruitment process.