At a Glance
- Tasks: Support quality improvement and ensure products meet safety and compliance standards.
- Company: Join Refresco, a global leader in beverage solutions with a vibrant team culture.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay, annual bonuses, 28 days leave, and wellness perks.
- Other info: Great career growth opportunities in a supportive and innovative workplace.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on product quality while learning in a dynamic environment.
- Qualifications: A proactive mindset; experience in quality or FMCG is a plus but not essential.
The predicted salary is between 30000 - 40000 £ per year.
Bridgwater, Somerset
2 days, 2 nights 7am-7pm, and 7pm-7am
Permanent
Reward & Benefits
- Annual bonus and annual pay review
- 28 days annual leave + bank holidays
- Purchase up to an additional 3 days holidays
- Life assurance
- Employee referral scheme – earn a bonus for referring your friends or family
- GroceryAid – a support service offering financial, legal, wellbeing and practical support, advice and counselling
- Cheers – access to our award‑winning benefits platform offering discounts, free perks, and well‑being tools for all employees
- Free onsite parking, and discounted products
About the Role
To support the quality improvement and right first time agenda so that products are legally and safely manufactured in compliance with customer and internal Company specifications and standards. To provide advice on recipe formulation and batch correction.
Here are your key tasks and responsibilities:
- Quality improvement support — Contribute to site quality projects, including training operations teams and monitoring effectiveness.
- Auditing & compliance — Complete GMP, hygiene, internal, and operational QC audits; report nonconformances and ensure corrective actions are implemented.
- Investigations — Support investigations into consumer complaints and nonconforming items, identifying root causes and preventing recurrence.
- Sampling & traceability — Take and manage samples per the site quality plan and complete traceability exercises as scheduled.
- Quality governance — Facilitate quality panels/boards and ensure analytical equipment is calibrated and serviced on schedule.
- Training & data accuracy — Assist with new‑starter/refresher training and complete accurate, timely data entry; support first production runs and line trials.
About You
The ideal candidate will bring a proactive, driven and solutions‑focused mindset, demonstrating strong initiative and a confident, hands‑on approach to problem‑solving. While some quality experience or exposure to the FMCG industry is beneficial, full training is provided, so a go‑getter attitude, resilience, and a willingness to learn are key. You should be genuinely interested in food and drink. The ideal candidate will be comfortable working independently as well as collaboratively within wider cross‑functional teams, contributing positively to continuous improvement and operational quality standards.
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.
If you fit this profile and are excited by this opportunity, we would be delighted to hear from you!
About Refresco
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. 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.
