Quality Assurance Specialist (Maternity Leave Coverage)

🌱 Our Mission

We make it easy for everyone to build healthy habits and eat more fruit and vegetables by creating innovative products that are highly nutritious, sustainable and delicious.

🚀 How We Do It

Just 1 in 10 US adults eats the recommended minimum of 5 cups of fruits and vegetables every day. We're helping solve that problem with convenient, organic, and mouth-watering products.

We transform fresh, organic fruits and veggies into handy single-serving meal moments such as:
🥤 Instant Smoothies

🍵 Protein Drinks
🍓 Delicious Snacks

👷‍♂️ Job Overview

• We’re looking for a Quality Assurance Specialist to join our team and ensure the highest standards of food safety, compliance, and product quality at kencko.


• You will collaborate closely with the Quality, R&D, and Production teams, supporting audits, validating equipment and processes, and making sure our products meet internal and external standards.

📩 This Quality Specialist role reports to the Head Of Quality Assurance.

🛠️ Responsibilities

• Evaluate data and evidence from production and laboratory, detect deviations from standards, investigate root causes, and assess the implementation of corrective and preventive actions.


• Control, evaluate, and approve suppliers, including validation of technical sheets for new ingredients.


• Elaborate, review, and update product technical sheets, ensuring compliance with internal and external standards.


• Elaborate and manage supplier complaints, ensuring appropriate investigation, documentation, and resolution.


• Oversee calibration of equipment and validate new equipment and quality control processes to guarantee accuracy, reliability, and compliance.


• Conduct and analyse product stability tests, monitoring results and reporting findings to relevant teams.


• Assist with internal and external audits, including regulatory and certification bodies. 


• Provide training to colleagues on food safety, quality standards, and product defects;


• Support internal quality and food safety audits across departments such as packing, FF, and warehouse.


• Support R&D and Production teams in implementing quality and food safety measures.


• Contribute to new projects and daily routines within the Quality team, ensuring continuous improvement and compliance with all standards.
  

💡 Experience You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Food, Chemical or Biological Engineering, Nutrition, Biology, Chemistry, or related field.


• 3+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, Regulatory, or Quality Management in food industries or related sectors.


• Experience with FDA and HACCP (mandatory), ISO 9001, ISO 22000, IFS, BRC and USDA (nice to have).


• Excellent English communication skills (written and spoken).


• Experience in the validation of equipment, processes, or quality systems is a plus.


• Previous experience with lyophilization or flash freezing processes is a plus
  

🎁 What We Offer

• Fixed Term contract (maternity leave replacement);


• Private health insurance, company pays 100% premium for employee;


• 25 days of paid time off per year;


• 9.60€ per day for a meal allowance;


• Monthly transportation pass fee;


• A casual, dynamic, ambitious, and fun work environment;


• Free nutrition consults;


• Steep discount on kencko products; and


• Be part of a B-Corp team that is shaking-up the nutrition industry for the better.

📨 Submit your application in English

Ready to join a team that’s making healthy easy, fun, and planet-friendly? 🌍🍓
We’re excited to hear from you!