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Quality Assurance Specialist (Maternity Leave Coverage)

Kencko Foods

Kencko Foods

Quality Assurance
Lisbon, Portugal
Posted on Oct 17, 2025

🌱 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!