Quality Assurance Sustainability Specialist

Quality Assurance Sustainability Specialist

About AAK

Our purpose, Making Better Happen™, describes our commitment to continuous improvement.

AAK specializes in plant-based oils that serve as value-adding ingredients in a wide range of popular consumer products. We make these products tastier, healthier, and more sustainable. With our oils, the sensory qualities of products can be enhanced — for example, by making the texture of premium chocolate smoother, plant-based burgers juicier, or low‑fat puff pastry crispier. By replacing ingredients with AAK’s plant-based alternatives, our customers can also optimize and streamline their production. With value-adding oils and fats, we help our customers succeed better.

Co-development with customers and an understanding of what “better” means for each individual customer are at the core of our business. With our flexible production facilities and extensive expertise, we deliver our value-adding products to a range of industries, such as chocolate and confectionery, bakery, dairy, plant-based foods, special nutrition, foodservice, and personal care. Our 4,000 employees work closely with customers through 25 regional sales offices, 15 innovation centers, and with support from more than 20 production facilities.

AAK, headquartered in Malmö, is listed on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange in Stockholm and has been striving for continuous improvement for 150 years.

Our plant in Karlshamn is a multifunctional facility. All the company’s business areas are represented here. Swedish-grown rapeseed is an important raw material, while a large variety of vegetable fats are shipped directly to the Karlshamn factory from producing countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. The Nordic region is an important home market, while specialty products are exported from Karlshamn to customers all over the world.

About the position

The Quality Assurance Sustainability Specialist is part of the Quality team at site Karlshamn and collaborates with other departments, e.g. production, sourcing & trading, order, HSE, finance and other functions to make sure we have the right quality for our products and customers. The QA Sustainability Specialist assures compliance with regulatory requirements, certification standards and internal company procedures for products manufactured in our production processes in Karlshamn.    

The work as a QA Sustainability Specialist will be focused on driving continuous improvements in our sustainability systems as well as being involved in tasks related to mass balance follow-up. 

The position is full-time, and you will be based in Karlshamn, Sweden.

Main responsibilities:

- Support implementation of procedures to ensure compliance with legislation and our sustainability standards e.g. RSPO, Rainforest Alliance, ISCC, Proterra
- Coordinate handling of internal deviations and continuous improvement initiatives
- Conduct internal audits
- Manage certification audits and coordinate corrective action plans to close any non-conformities
- Coordinate the sustainability team at the site and interact with the global sustainability team
- Perform internal training
- Follow up on mass balances and report results. With the new EUDR regulations there will be an increased reporting of SAP Tokens
- Update and review routines in our management system

Who are you?

To be successful in this role, you hold a Master of Science in Engineering or an equivalent degree in Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering, or the Sustainability field. It is advantageous if you have some years of experience from a similar position or have knowledge about sustainability management systems, legislation, certification standards, sustainability reporting and frameworks. You need to be accurate, structured and have analytical skills as you will be working with mass balance reporting and information in our ERP system.

We value good cooperation skills, that you are driven in your way of working and can perform and prioritize your work based on set goals. We expect you to have the right skills to perform tasks accurately without continuous supervision but seeking input from others as needed.

Furthermore, it is beneficial if you have strong teamworking skills, and you enjoy working both individually and within a team. You need to have the ability to communicate with auditors, customers and people on different levels within the organization. As a person, you enjoy working with continuous improvements, mass balance compliance as well as supporting initiatives to create a positive sustainability culture.

Contact

If you would like to know more about the position you are welcome to contact Camilla Folger, Quality Manager, via email at camilla.folger@aak.com.
If you have questions regarding the recruitment process, you are welcome to contact Magnus Nilsson, HR Business Partner, via email at magnus.nilsson@aak.com.
Apply with your CV and a personal letter explaining why you are the right person for this position no later than March 15, 2026. We apply continuous selection and interviews, which means the position may be filled before the application deadline. Please note that applications are not accepted via email.

We have made our choice of channels for this recruitment and kindly ask not to be contacted by salespeople, recruitment agencies, or staffing companies.

Är du nyfiken och gillar du att förbättra och utveckla? Vill du arbete i en internationell organisation som tar ansvar för en hållbar framtid? Då är AAK rätt väg för dig då du kan bli en del av vårt globala team där du utvecklar både dig själv och våra kunders verksamheter.