Quality Assurance Technician – Join a Growing Team
Are you ready to start the New Year with a role that brings challenge, purpose, and real opportunity for impact? This full-time permanent position, based in Co. Monaghan, offers the chance to take ownership within a high-performing technical team.
What we offer:
Full Time Permanent Position
Location: Monaghan
Working hours: Monday to Friday, 8am-5pm, NO WEEKENDS
Salary: €40'000-50'000 DOE
Benefits: Work with a globally recognised Irish food brand, Be part of a collaborative and experienced team, career development opportunities
What You'll Be doing:
In this hands-on role, you'll be right at the centre of maintaining and strengthening the site's food safety and quality culture. Your day-to-day responsibilities will span a mix of system management, continuous improvement, problem-solving, and cross-functional teamwork.
* Play a key role in maintaining and enhancing the company's food safety framework, ensuring systems like HACCP, SOPs, and prerequisite programmes are consistently followed and improved.
* Keep standards on track by assessing site performance and working closely with the Quality & Technical Manager to ensure all regulatory, customer, and certification expectations are being met.
* Lead internal audits from start to finish, share insights with teams across the site, and support departments in closing out actions effectively.
* Take ownership of targeted improvement projects, managing timelines and involving the right people to drive successful outcomes.
* Use Lean thinking daily, helping teams understand root causes, solve issues sustainably, and embed better ways of working.
* Spot potential risks before they become problems, act quickly to address them, and oversee corrective and preventative actions to support ongoing improvement.
* Monitor Quality KPIs, identify trends, and collaborate with production colleagues to solve issues at source.
* Manage customer complaint investigations and external non-conformances with a thorough and structured approach.
* Work alongside Production and Maintenance to set expectations, troubleshoot, and ensure high standards are upheld across operations.
What You'll Bring
* A recognised third-level qualification in Food Science or a related discipline.
* 3+ years' experience in a QA or QC role within food manufacturing.
* Solid knowledge of auditing, food legislation, HACCP, BRC or other GFSI standards, and quality management tools.
* A strong analytical mindset with the ability to solve problems quickly and effectively.
* Experience driving improvements and delivering lasting results.
* A proactive, positive, team-oriented approach with plenty of initiative.
* Great communication skills and the confidence to engage with people across all departments.
* Strong organisational abilities and the energy to thrive in a fast-paced, hands-on environment.
* Good IT and Excel skills for reporting, analysis, and documentation.
Ready to make 2026 your year of growth?
If you're looking for a role where your expertise will be valued, your ideas will drive real improvements, and your career can truly move forward, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply today