Quality Assistant

Come and join the leading #avoexperts 🥑

Westfalia Fruit is a leading multinational supplier of fresh fruit and related value-added products to global markets. Through our vertically-integrated supply chain we grow, source, ripen, pack, process and market quality avocadoes & fresh produce – 365 days a year & across the globe.

With the largest avocado-growing footprint in the world, we are recognised as the leading #avoexperts and considered as the supplier of choice to both retail & wholesale customers whom we serve from sales offices in the UK, Europe, North America, Latin America & Southern Africa.

We’re looking for a Quality Assistant to join our team in Wingene, Belgium.

As a Quality Assistant, you will play a key role in maintaining our food safety, quality, and compliance standards across production. Working closely with the Quality Lead and Quality Manager, you'll support daily quality assurance activities, monitor production processes, investigate and follow up on non-conformances, and help ensure our products consistently meet customer and regulatory requirements.

You'll be responsible for carrying out quality checks, hygiene inspections, and validations, maintaining accurate quality records, supporting supplier and incoming goods controls, and assisting with customer quality enquiries and documentation. You'll also contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, provide quality and hygiene training, and work collaboratively with production and cross-functional teams to promote a strong quality culture.

Responsibilities include:

• Carry out CCP checks and monitor critical production and quality control processes.
• Verify production records, investigate deviations, and follow up on corrective actions.
• Conduct hygiene inspections, validations, calibrations, and support pest control monitoring.
• Manage reference samples, laboratory submissions, and maintain accurate quality records.
• Record, investigate, and track non-conformities through to resolution.
• Participate in HACCP and Food Fraud teams, supporting food safety and compliance initiatives.
• Deliver hygiene and quality awareness training to colleagues.
• Respond to customer quality enquiries, complaints, and prepare quality documentation, including questionnaires and corrective action reports.
• Maintain supplier information, complete supplier evaluations, and perform incoming inspections of raw materials and packaging.
• Collaborate with production teams to drive continuous improvement and ensure compliance with food safety, customer, and regulatory standards.

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in food and laboratory technology, agro-food industry, chemistry or equivalent experience.
• Knowledge of quality systems and quality management in the food industry, food safety and HACCP
• Fluent in Dutch and English, both written and spoken
• Proactive, hands-on, and self-motivated, with the initiative to identify issues and take action.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organisational skills, with excellent attention to detail.
• Confident and assertive communicator, able to build relationships, influence others, and challenge non-compliance when required.
• Resilient, adaptable, and committed to continuous improvement and maintaining high standards of quality and food safety.
• Passionate about quality, with a consistent and reliable approach to driving a positive quality culture.

Desirable

Fluency in French is a plus

• You work full-time with flexible hours and working from home days.
• The extensive package of extra-legal benefits includes many vacation days, hospitalization and group insurance, a mobile phone, 9.5 euros meal vouchers, bike leasing and eco vouchers.
• You get a versatile job with impact, a lot of independence, and growth opportunities.
• You can take home dips,  and many other avocado treats.
• Even outside the workplace, the #guacsquad is a close-knit and fun group. From the annual team building to jogging in the forests of Wingene, playing padel, or the legendary football tournaments. And of course, the fun lunch breaks and after work drinks.

SYROS DNA

• I MAKE IT HAPPEN
• I TAKE OWNERSHIP
• FOCUS TO GET THINGS DONE GOOD AND FAST
• I AM THE CUSTOMER.
• CELEBRATE EVERY SUCCESS, big or small.

Please note that this position does not have a specific closing date. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible as we will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis and the advert may be removed at any time.

We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.