Quality Assurance Technician

Recruitment Specialist at Geary\’s Bakeries

Quality Assurance Technician

Shift Pattern: 4 On / 4 Off, 6PM – 6AM, NIGHT SHIFT

The Role

QA Technicians are the key ingredient to our recipe for success at Geary’s. You’re responsible for monitoring our processes against site procedures through regular auditing and supporting inter‑departmental teams, providing clear and accurate advice. In maintaining our due diligence, you ensure our bread is not only delicious but also meets food safety, product integrity and quality requirements.

• Creating and maintaining accurate, audit‑ready, site and product specific documentation to guide our teams in meeting required standards.
• Reviewing all production paperwork, confirming information in real time, that it is completed accurately and in full.
• Identifying any areas of improvement or additional training needs related to paperwork completion.
• Conducting legal compliance verification checks on site‑wide equipment (such as temperature probes, scales and fridges) against a defined schedule, escalating any out‑of‑spec results and assisting in investigation and corrective action implementation.
• Conducting GMP/Glass and Hard Plastic and Fabrication audits to ensure hygiene levels are maintained, working with department leads to assess compliance and improve standards where necessary.
• Reporting audit findings within the Internal Audit Procedure.
• Completing PQE sessions to confirm product conforms to food safety, quality and customer requirements.
• Conducting sampling and swabbing against site risk‑assessed schedules; leading investigations when out‑of‑spec result is received to confirm cause and corrective and preventative measures as outlined in non‑conformance procedure.
• Acting as subject‑matter expert for CCP controls, weight controls (in line with Weights and Measures Act 1985) and food safety and quality standards, delivering training and support to colleagues on all areas where necessary.

About Us

At Geary’s, we’re on a crusade to make proper bread more accessible to more people. We’re passionate about re‑imagining the way Great Britain thinks about their everyday loaf. This passion is at the heart of everything we do, and has guided us since 1906. We operate from two, soon to be three, sites on a 24/7 operation and are made up of over 650 people—friendly, diverse and outgoing, passionate about making a difference to the bakery industry.

Benefits

Our brilliant benefits include free delicious bread, a Cycle to Work scheme, BUPA, Death in Service and up to £500 referral bonus.

About You

At Geary’s, we look for people who show up every day to do their best. We’re a passionate, friendly team and look for the same qualities in our new recruits. We firmly believe your attitude and approach is just as important (if not, more so) than the skills and experience on your CV.

What we’re looking for

• Experience within a manufacturing environment is essential.
• Excellent understanding of Food Safety, Health and Safety and HACCP.
• Great communication skills.
• Task‑oriented and a completer finisher.
• A passion for raising standards and sharing knowledge.
• IT skills (ability to use the full Office package, including Excel).
• Flexible approach to working hours (occasional cover for other shifts/sites may be required).

All applicants must have the right to work in the UK, at point of interview, and for the tenure of employment contract. As part of the recruitment process, you will be asked to provide documented evidence of your eligibility to work in the UK.