Quality Controller

Quality Controller Location: Bristow's of Devon, Marsh Lane, Crediton, EX17 1ET Salary: £12.71 per hour Hours: Full-time, Permanent – 40 hours per week Working Hours: Monday to Friday, 6:15am – 3:00pm Join Our Sweet Team! We're looking for an experienced Quality Controller to join our friendly team at Bristow's of Devon in Crediton. As part of an exciting period of growth and change, you'll play a vital role in ensuring the highest standards of food safety, quality and compliance across our confectionery production. From our famous handmade fudge to traditional bon bons and nostalgic hard-boiled sweets, quality is at the heart of everything we do. If you have experience in food manufacturing, a passion for quality, and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, we'd love to hear from you. What You'll Be Doing As our Quality Controller, you'll support our production teams by ensuring all products meet food safety, legal and quality standards. Your responsibilities will include: • Carrying out daily quality assurance checks and temperature verifications. • Monitoring production standards in line with company expectations. • Completing weekly GMP audits and reporting trends. • Conducting environmental swabbing and water sampling in line with schedules. • Sampling and inspecting raw materials, packaging and finished products. • Maintaining food safety, quality and production documentation. • Investigating non-conformances and implementing corrective and preventative actions. • Managing quarantine and rejection processes for non-conforming products. • Organising weekly product tasting sessions and leading quality review meetings. • Identifying opportunities for continuous improvement and supporting the Head of Technical. • Acting as deputy for the Head of Technical when required. • Supporting the wider Technical team with additional duties as needed. What We're Looking For Essential: • At least 1 year's Quality Assurance experience within the food industry. • Minimum Level 2 HACCP qualification. • Minimum Level 2 Food Safety qualification. • Excellent attention to detail and strong analytical skills. • Good written and verbal communication skills. • Ability to work independently and as part of a team. Desirable: • Level 3 HACCP or Food Safety qualification. • Experience using Microsoft Office, particularly Excel. Benefits • Company pension • Employee discount • Free on-site parking • Casual dress • Referral programme • Bereavement leave If you're passionate about quality, enjoy working with food, and want to be part of a business with a proud heritage and exciting future, we'd love to receive your application.