At Highland Spring Group, we’re proud of what we do, who we are, and the natural-source water we share with our customers. Every drop of Highland Spring comes from the majestic Ochil Hills, where we carefully protect 2,500 acres of natural, organic and untouched land.
We’re looking for a Quality Leader to join our Technical team at our Ochils site. This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys taking ownership, solving problems, improving standards and working with others to make sure our products continue to meet the highest expectations for quality, food safety and compliance.
You’ll play an important role in maintaining site and Group Technical requirements, supporting our Quality Management System, leading allocated quality projects and helping drive continuous improvement across the site.
What you can expect:
In this role, you’ll help ensure our products are safe, legal, authentic and consistently high quality. Your responsibilities will include:
- Investigating complaints, quality incidents and quarantines, identifying root causes and supporting effective corrective and preventative actions.
- Maintaining the Ochils Quality Management System and supporting document control.
- Managing and improving quality checks, including kiosk and SOP requirements.
- Leading allocated quality projects that support site and Group objectives.
- Reviewing kiosk data and identifying trends or improvement opportunities.
- Completing GMP, traceability and shop floor compliance audits.
- Supporting customer complaint responses and quality-related information requests.
- Creating and maintaining retailer quality attribute sheets.
- Collating technical data and Group information when required.
- Completing scheduled TACCP horizon scanning.
- Deputising for the Quality Manager and Technical Services Manager when needed.
About you:
We’re looking for someone who takes pride in their work, enjoys being part of a team and cares about doing things properly. You’ll be confident working with systems, standards and procedures, and you’ll be comfortable turning requirements into practical ways of working for the site.
You’ll ideally bring:
- Experience in a similar quality or technical role, ideally within the food or drink industry.
- A good understanding of food safety, quality systems and compliance requirements.
- The ability to interpret accreditation standards and customer codes of practice, then translate them into workable site procedures.
- Strong attention to detail and confidence handling documentation, data and audits.
- A practical, collaborative approach to problem-solving.
- Experience with retailer specifications, artwork sign-off systems or food labelling requirements would be beneficial.
- A degree in Food Safety, Food Management, Food Science or a related subject would be helpful, but it is not essential.
- Food Hygiene and HACCP training would also be advantageous, but we welcome candidates with relevant experience and a willingness to learn.
Our values guide how we do things at Highland Spring Group:
We’re a Team — we support each other, listen, problem-solve and work together to make things happen
We’re Proud — we take ownership, continuously improve and take pride in our products, our brand and our work
We Care — we respect each other, care about our customers, protect our environment and believe everyone should have a voice
This role would suit someone who is organised, curious and proactive; someone who is comfortable asking questions, sharing ideas and helping others do a good job.
If you could be our next Quality Leader, please apply today.
Please note, this role is Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week.
Skills Required
- Experience in a similar quality or technical role, ideally within the food or drink industry.
- Good understanding of food safety, quality systems and compliance requirements.
- Ability to interpret accreditation standards and translate them into workable site procedures.
- Strong attention to detail and experience handling documentation, data and audits.
- Practical, collaborative problem-solving approach.
- Experience with retailer specifications, artwork sign-off systems or food labelling requirements.
- Degree in Food Safety, Food Management, Food Science or related subject.
- Food Hygiene and HACCP training.
What We Do
Highland Spring Group is the UK’s largest producer of natural source waters. Established in 1979, our range includes; Highland Spring and Hydr8 and we employ over 400 people at our two sites in Scotland. The mission of our business is to provide healthy hydration in an environmentally sustainable way. One of the many things that makes us special is our protected, organically accredited catchment area - stretching across over 2,500 acres of the beautiful Ochil Hills in Perthshire, Scotland, The land has nothing but nature on it and allows the rainfall to filter naturally over many years through the rock to depths of up to 300 feet before making it’s way to our bottling plant and into bottles in it’s natural source condition
