QA Food Safety & Quality Systems Lead

Join McCormick, a global leader in flavour, as our QA Food Safety & Quality Systems Lead, where you’ll play a key role in ensuring our products meet the highest standards of safety, integrity, and quality. This position provides leadership for the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of Food Safety, Food Defence, and Quality Systems at our Polish Plant.

• Manage and maintain Food Safety, Food Defence, and Quality Systems programs, including HACCP, allergen management, pest control, environmental monitoring, and internal audits.
• Ensure compliance with McCormick Corporate Quality Assurance policies, customer standards, and relevant legal regulations.
• Lead internal audit programs and coordinate external (customer and certification) audits, ensuring site readiness and timely closure of findings.
• Maintain and update quality documentation, procedures, and records in line with corporate and regulatory requirements.
• Analyse quality KPIs and audit results, identify trends, and drive improvement initiatives.
• Support root cause analysis and implementation of corrective and preventive actions (CAPA).
• Deliver training and guidance to site teams to strengthen food safety and quality awareness.
• Actively contribute to continuous improvement projects and promote a strong quality culture across the site.

• Master’s degree in Food Technology, Microbiology, Biotechnology, or a related discipline.
• Relevant experience in a food manufacturing industry or similar (packaging, pharmaceuticals or cosmetics preferably), ideally in Quality Assurance or Food Safety.
• Solid understanding of HACCP, GMP, GHP, and BRC or ISO 22000 standards.
• Experience in conducting internal audits and managing quality system documentation.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail and a proactive approach.
• Good communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally.
• Fluent in Polish and English, both written and spoken.

Agencies:
McCormick as needed will work with external recruitment vendors through our Agency Portal. Unless previously contacted, McCormick does not accept unsolicited resumes from external recruiting agencies.

McCormick & Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, colour, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy/ies.