Quality Systems Coordinator

Are you passionate about food quality, compliance, and continuous improvement? Do you want to play a key role in ensuring excellence in one of the UK’s most loved dairy brands?

At Yeo Valley, we’re proud to produce delicious, organic dairy products while caring for our people, our cows, and the planet. We’re now looking for a Quality Systems Co-ordinator to join our dedicated team at our Cannington site, supporting the Quality System Manager in maintaining and enhancing our quality management systems. This role covers duties commonly conducted by a Quality Systems Technologist or Technical Administrator.

 What You’ll Be Doing:

• Supporting the maintenance and continual improvement of site Quality Systems (QMS)

• Assisting with internal and external audits (e.g. BRCGS, customer, and regulatory bodies)

• Coordinating document control, non-conformance reports (NCRs), and corrective/preventive actions (CAPA)

• Reinforcing site HACCP and food safety plans in collaboration with technical and operations teams

• Helping to ensure all systems align with food safety legislation and customer requirements

• Establishing training, communication, and implementation of quality procedures across site teams

Internal audit training is a mandatory requirement for this role, as you will play an active part in the site’s internal audit programme. You’ll also support the Quality Manager in the day-to-day running of quality systems and processes, helping to monitor and report on site quality KPIs and ensuring continuous improvement is embedded across the business.

Essential:

• Science based degree or demonstrable / relevant food industry experience
• HACCP level 3
• Food Safety Level 3
• Good understanding of food processing parameters and controls
• Internal audit qualification and worked experience
• A passion for data & competent in Microsoft tools
• Competent and confident trending data and producing KPI’s.

We’re independent, British and proud to be making the highest quality yogurts, desserts and ice cream under the Yeo Valley brand and for many of the UK’s major retailers. Operating from four dairies and two logistics centres in Somerset and Devon, we employ over 1700 staff and produce more than 25% of the UK’s packaged yogurt.

We’re sure you don’t need convincing, but there’s a whole host of benefits that we offer including:

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays 
• non-contributory pension scheme
• life cover
• healthcare cash back plan
• cycle to work scheme
• subsidised Yeo Valley products and services
• preferential rates with our partners
• annual bonus (as part of the Employee Benefit Trust, based on company performance for the year)
• learning and development opportunities; we’re committed to ensuring all of our employees have the chance to grow

Our closing dates are a guide for when the application window should close, although we may close the advert sooner if we can. So, we recommend you get your application in straight away – and don’t miss the opportunity to join us!

Unfortunately, we’re not able to provide employment sponsorship to candidates at this moment in time.

Please note that Yeo Valley do not accept speculative agency applications; we will only accept applications from preferred suppliers that have been submitted to us via our recruitment portal at the point of instruction.