Description
Job Description:
As a Quality Engineer at Oatly, you will drive and coordinate quality and food safety work at the Vlissingen site, ensuring compliance with food legislation, BRC and internal Oatly standards.
The role includes close collaboration with AMC and other co-packers, where you are Oatly's main quality interface. You follow up deviations, drive corrective actions and support quality improvements across the supply chain. You also work hands-on with daily quality activities, quality data and training, turning insights into tangible improvements in quality and food safety.
Key Responsibilities:
- Driving quality and food safety compliance at site and across the interface with AMC and other co-packers
- Acting as the quality link between Oatly and external production partners
- Identifying, analyzing, and resolving quality deviations and non-conformities
- Performing structured root cause analysis and ensuring effective corrective and preventive actions
- Analyzing quality losses, trends, and recurring issues using data from production, LIMS, and ERP systems
- Actively contributing to optimization and continuous improvement projects, with focus on quality robustness, food safety, waste reduction, and process stability
- Supporting OPEX and cross-functional initiatives with quality and process expertise
- Uses LIMS to review, interpret, and trend laboratory results
- Develops, maintains, and follows up quality documentation at site
- Trains and coaches operators and staff in HACCP, hygiene, quality standards, and process-related quality risks
- Supports basic understanding and assessment of CIP systems, hygienic design, and cleaning/processing validation
Who You Are:
To be successful in this role, you have a solid background in food manufacturing and hands-on quality work, and you feel at home in a production environment where you move naturally between day-to-day operations and more long-term quality topics.
You are curious and not afraid to ask questions to understand what is really happening. You help create a culture where people speak up, report issues and learn from failures – focusing on fixing problems rather than placing blame. At the same time, you are confident in your role as a guardian of compliance and food safety. You communicate clearly, can say no when needed, and do not allow unclear messaging when it comes to quality. You stay flexible, adapt to changing priorities and are always open to learning.
Must-haves for the role:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering (preferably food, chemical or similar)
- Experience working with food or pharmaceutical quality systems
- Strong, hands-on experience with HACCP and GFSI standards (e.g. BRC)
- Solid understanding of food manufacturing processes and quality risks
- Proven ability to analyze deviations and non-conformities using structured root cause analysis
- Data-driven mindset, with experience working with quality data, lab results and trend analysis
- Strong communication skills and the ability to train and educate colleagues in quality and food safety
- Dutch and English, very good verbal and written level
Benefits:
- 30 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
- An awesome office (with amazing cappuccinos)
- Cost-free pension plan
- Bike plan
- Vitality allowance
- Corporate benefits
- Tools to maintain mental and physical wellbeing
Last day of application: 28th of May, 2026.