WHY OATLY
Hello potential future Oatly employee. It’s us, the original oat drink company that started in Sweden back 30 or so years ago.
We’ve become a popular and pioneering dairy-alt player in the market. We're continuing to establish our presence here, determined on being part of the discussion on the long-term future of the food and beverage industry. With this growth, we need more brilliant minds to come work with us to keep the momentum going and the oat drink flowing.
Our mission is to make it easy for people to eat better and live healthier lives without recklessly taxing the planet’s resources. If this resonates with you, then maybe you’d like work for Oatly, too. So, let’s get to the formal stuff.
The Role
As a Quality Engineer at Oatly, you 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. As our Quality Engineer you will work closely with Production, Engineering, and QPI to ensure that quality and food safety are designed into processes and continuously improved, not only controlled.
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
Another bulleted list felt redundant, so we wrote this long sentence with all the ways we sweeten the deal to work with us: 30 days holiday (plus bank holidays), an awesome office (with amazing cappoatccinos), cost free pension plan, bike plan, vitality allowance, 'corporate' benefits, tools to maintain mental and psychical wellbeing and many more.
Last day of application: 6th of May, 2026.
[Phew! Well done if you’ve got this far. We’re glad we’ve still got your attention because we’ve got one last super important point to make.
As you can probably tell, we’re a norm-breaking company. For us, diversity and differences are an obvious asset. We know that amazing candidates can sometimes be put off applying for a job unless they can tick every box, and that makes us really sad. So please trust your gut and pop in your application if it’s feeling right. Good luck!]