Quality Assurance Manager

Your impact

As QEHS Lead, you are responsible for setting up, monitoring, and continuously improving our quality, safety, health and environmental policy. You combine operational responsibility with a strategic role towards R&D and innovation. Thanks to your expertise, our products remain safe, sustainable and of top quality.

ROLE

Quality & Food Safety

• You are the owner of the entire quality system (HACCP, BRC/IFS) and you continuously elevate it. Your scope ranges from accurately managing all product specifications in customer portals to flawless ingredient traceability and CAPA follow-up: you hold all the strings.
• You see external audits as an opportunity to shine. You coordinate them seamlessly and ensure that any action points become real improvements on the production floor—not just items on a to-do list.

Safety & Environment

• You make Safety and Environment tangible. You don’t just create an annual action plan; you build a safe and sustainable work environment.
• You organize impactful trainings and, as Environmental Coordinator B, you monitor waste and energy streams.

Hygiene

• Impeccable hygiene is not a checklist, but the foundation of our premium desserts. You fully take ownership of this domain.
• You design and optimize cleaning plans, dig into the technical side to validate our CIP cycles, and—most importantly—bring it all to life on the shop floor.
• Through your convincing training sessions, you ensure every colleague not only knows but also embraces the crucial role of hygiene.

R&D and Innovation

• You believe that standing still means falling behind, and you initiate product improvements based on insights from quality controls, customer contacts, and complaint handling.
• You use this input to support recipe development and ensure our recipes are continuously fine-tuned.

Reporting and KPIs

• Numbers are not a goal for you, but powerful tools.
• You create clear monthly QESH reports and dive into deviation analyses.
• By managing and analyzing lab results, you are the first to spot trends and translate these insights into concrete improvement actions on the production floor.

PROFILE

• Preferably you have a Master’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., Biosciences, Bio-Engineering, Industrial Sciences) and at least 3 years of experience in a QA/QC or QESH role within the food industry.
• You have knowledge of HACCP, BRC/IFS, ISO 22000.
• You possess certificates for Prevention Advisor Level 2 and Environmental Coordinator B, or you are motivated to obtain these in the short term.
• As an analytical thinker, you understand complex data and quickly recognize trends in, for example, lab results. Your accuracy and structured approach ensure flawless documentation and follow-up.
• You are a proactive and independent professional who takes ownership. Thanks to strong communication skills, you can both convince and train internal stakeholders.
• You communicate excellently in Dutch and have a good command of English.