Quality Assurance Specialist

The Role & the Team 

Join Roquette and help shape the future of Quality across our food additive and pharmaceutical excipient manufacturing sites in Stade and Bomlitz! 

As a Quality Assurance Specialist, ideally based in Stade, you will play a key role in strengthening our Quality culture, supporting manufacturing operations and driving continuous improvement across both sites. 

Working closely with Production, Quality Control, Engineering and Site Leadership teams, you will contribute to ensuring compliance, operational excellence and the successful deployment of strategic Quality initiatives. 

Our Team 

You will join a close-knit and collaborative team of 5 Quality professionals, where teamwork, knowledge sharing and continuous improvement are key drivers of success.  

Our Quality team works hand in hand with Operations to ensure the highest standards of product quality, compliance and customer satisfaction across pharmaceutical, food and industrial applications. 

They play a critical role in maintaining a robust Quality Management System while driving continuous improvement and supporting business growth. 

Your Experience and Talents Will Make the Difference to: 

• Drive Quality Excellence & Continuous Improvement: Identify improvement opportunities & strengthen the QMS (Quality Management System), promote GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) culture and support quality transformation initiatives across both sites. 

• Lead Assessments & Improvement Projects: Manage risk assessments and support qualification and validation activities while contributing to cross-functional improvement and harmonization projects. 

• Support Manufacturing Operations: Provide operational QA support and contribute to deviations, complaints, CAPA, Change Controls, root-cause analyses and batch release activities as needed. 

• Promote Compliance & Quality Culture: Participate in audits, deliver GMP training and act as a trusted quality partner to Operations. 

What We Will Love About You 

You are a quality professional who combines scientific rigor with a pragmatic, shop-floor mindset. Comfortable working in a regulated manufacturing environment, you know how to navigate complexity, challenge existing practices and turn quality requirements into practical and sustainable solutions. 

Recognized for your autonomy, strong prioritization skills and sense of ownership, you enjoy leading improvement initiatives, contributing to cross-functional projects and finding creative solutions to quality challenges. 

With strong communication and influencing skills, you build trusted relationships across functions and effectively engage stakeholders without direct authority. Your analytical and risk-based mindset enables you to make sound decisions and drive meaningful improvements in quality, compliance and operational performance. 

And Also… 

Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Pharmacy, Chemistry, Microbiology, Biotechnology, Food Science, Engineering or related discipline. 

Experience: 3–5 years in Quality Assurance or a related quality discipline within pharmaceutical, excipient or food industries. 

Technical Skills: QMS, EXCiPACT/IPEC-PQG GMP, FSSC 22000, HACCP, CAPA, Change Control, audits, validation and qualification. SAP knowledge is a plus. 

Languages: 

• German native speaker or equivalent level is required (written and spoken). 

• Operational English is required to collaborate effectively within our international organization. 

What we offer: 

• Opportunities to learn and grow within an entrepreneurial environment that fosters innovation. 

• Access to our internal mobility policy. 

• The ability to balance work and personal life, through organizational flexibility.