Skip to main content
Post your CV and find your next job on Indeed!

Taste Testing jobs

Sort by: -
    • Support NPD trials and product launches, including testing, shelf-life assessment, and taste panels.
    • Complete sampling activities to schedule, including…
    • View all Bakkavor jobs - Boston jobs - Quality Assurance Auditor jobs in Boston
    • Salary Search: QA Auditor salaries in Boston
    • See popular questions & answers about Bakkavor
    • Assist with the preparation of kitchen made samples as required to support the chefs/product developers in preparation for internal panels, nutritional testing…
    • Conduct sampling of products to asses taste profile across a wide range of food categories.
    • SGS’s Food industry services help ensure food safety, quality, and…
  • Ashurst Perkins Coie - Winter Vacation Scheme 2026 Reading about us is a great start — but nothing compares to experiencing life at Ashurst Perkins Coie first…
    • Work with Senior Innovations Technologist and/or NPD Manager on Customer Briefs to assisting in the preparation and dispatch of samples.
  • View similar jobs with this employer
    • You will ensure robust sensory testing and analysis supports key business decisions across innovation, product improvement, cost optimisation and quality.
    • From running practical bakery trials and understanding how ingredients behave, through to challenging formulations and helping troubleshoot customer…
  • View similar jobs with this employer
    • Carrying out testing procedures, checking work against quality standards and maintaining excellent hygiene and housekeeping.
    • Hours: Full Time, 12 Months Fixed Term*.
    • We’re looking for an experienced Data Engineer who’s comfortable working with real independence and knows the AWS data…
    • Experience using laboratory testing equipment and/or ERP systems.
    • Support organoleptic assessments, including aroma, taste and appearance.
    • Develop and implement detailed logistics plans for transportation, storage and set up of hospitality equipment at racetracks and testing sites.
    • The IT Technician provides first and second-line technical support across the Medichecks Group, helping to ensure that IT services, devices, systems, and user…
    • Complete product testing including taste, pH, Brix, alcohol and specific gravity testing where required.
    • Carry out routine quality checks, inspections and…
    • Participate in daily taste panels and conduct final inspections including completing QAS on samples.
    • Ensuring micro biological testing and swabbing regimes are…
  • View similar jobs with this employer
    • Carrying out testing procedures, checking work against quality standards and maintaining excellent hygiene and housekeeping.

Job Post Details

QA Auditor - job post

Bakkavor
3.2 out of 5 stars
Boston PE22 9PN
Permanent
You must create an Indeed account before continuing to the company website to apply

Job details

Job type

  • Permanent

Location

Boston PE22 9PN

Benefits

Pulled from the full job description

  • Employee discount
  • Life insurance
  • Company pension

Full job description

Quality Auditor


Salary: Competitive salary
Benefits: Company share save scheme, Competitive matched pension up contributions, Life insurance up to 4x salary
Location: Old Leake (PE22 9PN) Near Boston
Ways of Working: Site Based
Hours of work: 3’s & 2’s (Blue shift) – 06:00 – 18:00
Contract Type: Permanent


Why Greencore?


Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we’re one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make every day taste better.


As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we’re proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US.


Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn.


Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food, both our own and from trusted partners, to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.


Our site in Old Leake, just outside Boston, Lincolnshire, specialises in chilled Italian ready meals and modern deli products for a dedicated customer. The site employs around 700 people and operates in a fast-paced production environment.


What you’ll be doing


In this busy and hands-on role as a Quality Auditor, you’ll audit, monitor, and continuously improve quality systems and procedures across site operations. Working closely with operational teams, you’ll provide practical technical support while maintaining and promoting quality and food safety standards in line with Greencore, customer, and legal requirements, with guidance from the QA Supervisor or Manager.


Role Accountabilities


  • Audit compliance with QMS, GMP, and HACCP, raising clear non-conformances and driving corrective actions to closure
  • Apply an inquisitive audit mindset to identify root causes and reduce repeat non-conformances
  • Conduct traceability audits, efficiently retrieving data and presenting findings clearly
  • Complete sampling activities to schedule, including microbiological, nutritional, swabs, and organoleptic testing
  • Prepare, facilitate, and trend taste panels, escalating out-of-specification results and recommending improvements
  • Calibrate factory measurement equipment to schedule and manage out-of-tolerance actions
  • Support investigations into complaints, incidents, and out-of-specification results through audits and data analysis
  • Support NPD trials and product launches, including testing, shelf-life assessment, and taste panels
  • Provide day-to-day technical support to factory teams, audits, and customer visits
  • Contribute to Technical KPI delivery through audits, investigations, and proactive improvement actions
  • Work safely at all times, promoting strong health, safety, and environmental standards


What we’re looking for


  • A strong understanding of quality systems, GMP, HACCP, and traceability within a manufacturing environment
  • A proactive, detail-focused approach with a natural curiosity to challenge and improve standards
  • Confidence working hands-on on the factory floor, providing clear and practical technical guidance
  • Ability to audit effectively, identify root causes, and drive corrective and preventative actions
  • Strong communication skills, able to engage confidently with colleagues at all levels
  • A collaborative mindset, working effectively within cross-functional teams
  • Good organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities to deadlines
  • Commitment to continuous improvement and personal development
  • A positive, resilient approach aligned to Greencore values


We’re not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.


If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.


What you’ll get in return


  • Competitive salary and job-related benefits
  • Holidays
  • Competitive matched pension up contributions
  • Life insurance up to 4x salary
  • Company share save scheme
  • Greencore Qualifications
  • Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
  • Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
  • Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies


Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on-the-job training and development opportunities to further your career.


#LI-EG1


#CVL


“We reserve the right to close this advertisement before the stated closing date.’’


Greencore and its recruitment partners never charge candidates any fees at any stage of the hiring process. Any request for payment relating to a job opportunity should be considered fraudulent.

Let Employers Find YouUpload Your Resume