We are looking for a QA/QC Officer
At Verstegen, you ensure that food safety isn't just theory, but a daily reality. As a QA/QC Officer, you'll clearly identify the risks of thousands of raw materials and translate them into control measures that have been proven effective. You'll embed these risks in analyses, specifications, and procedures, moving smoothly throughout the entire supply chain: from purchasing and production to sales. With clear arguments, you'll win over teams, prevent problems down the line, and ensure processes run faster and more efficiently.
Do you see this challenge as your puzzle? We'd love to talk further.
You'll join the FSQ team (30 colleagues) in Rotterdam, where you'll become part of the subteam. This subteam consists of four experienced specialists who are jointly responsible for identifying the risks of more than 3,000 raw materials and processes. You'll be part of a close-knit and highly skilled team, where you'll collaborate, keep each other on their toes, and lend a hand when needed.
You'll make food safety a daily practice. You'll clearly identify risks and translate them into workable standards on the ground. You'll liaise throughout the entire supply chain, from suppliers and purchasing to production and logistics, ensuring quality isn't a handbrake but an accelerator.
- Assess risks at raw material and process level, determine and ensure control measures.
- Request information, assess specifications and release suppliers and raw materials together with purchasing.
- Develop and monitor measurement plans, and follow up on deviations with well-thought-out CAPAs.
- Record matters within procedures and work instructions and ensure that audit and customer requirements are demonstrably in order.
- Lead projects with stakeholders and justify choices to colleagues.
You combine a sharp understanding of food safety with a practical approach. You quickly identify risks, know how to substantiate them, and get colleagues on board without any confusion. This way, you transform rules into workable standards.
- HBO work and thinking level (e.g. Food Technology/Food Safety) with solid knowledge of HACCP and GIRA (preferably an experienced HBO graduate with a practical drive).
Demonstrable QA/QC experience in a food or process environment and accustomed to complexities involving numerous raw materials and suppliers.
- Able to translate sharp risk analyses into measures on the ground and demonstrably implement them.
- You are persuasive on the basis of content, switch smoothly between operator and management and build support for decisions.
- Excellent knowledge of the Dutch language, both spoken and written, as documentation, procedures and meetings are all in Dutch.
- Hands-on mentality and visible presence in operations. Persistent when necessary and pragmatic in finding solutions.
- Pre: experience with larger players/A-brands or private label, familiar with audits/customer requirements and preferably living in the Rotterdam region.
For generations, we've been supplying the highest quality herbs, spices, sauces, and marinades. But what truly makes us unique is our drive to make a difference. To leave the earth a little better than we found it. Because that mentality leads to higher quality. And not just of our delicious pepper, cinnamon, chili, or star anise. Verstegen is a Rotterdam-based family business with over 550 colleagues. You'll work in a social environment where everyone matters. From raw materials to finished product, we make everything ourselves. We're known for our high quality and positive work atmosphere. We roll up our sleeves and get things done.
At Verstegen, you'll have the space to truly build something. No rigid policies, but an organization that strives for growth in safety and sustainability. You'll find yourself in an environment where people work hard, but also where there's room for initiative, development, and job satisfaction. Together, we make things a little better every day.
- Salary from €3,976 to €5,303 gross per month.
- 8.33% holiday allowance and €900 end-of-year bonus.
- 26 days of vacation and the possibility of 10 additional days per year.
- Good pension plan.
- Travel allowance of €0.23 per km.
- Opportunities for growth and training.
- Discount on the entire Verstegen range.
- Bicycle plan, company fitness and a pleasant working atmosphere.
