This is what you’ll actually do!
You’ll support the Business and Site Compliance strategies, ensuring alignment with Group standards, legal requirements and customer expectations. You’ll keep Food Safety and Quality Management System documents current, controlled and fit for purpose, and help develop procedures, guidance and training materials.
Keep the Regional Compliance Lead informed of significant issues, emerging risks, audit outcomes and action status, and confirm competent persons and system owners are identified for key activities.
You’ll collate, review and report food safety and compliance KPIs, highlighting trends, gaps and areas requiring action. You’ll communicate performance and agreed actions to the wider site team through Tier meetings, escalating concerns and tracking actions through to completion.
Key responsibilities include verifying the effectiveness of HACCP studies and allergen controls, supporting TACCP and VACCP reviews, and tracking actions to closure. Changes to products, processes, equipment, ingredients or layouts must also be assessed through the site change management / HACCP process.
Working with Site Technical and Leadership teams, you’ll verify the internal audit programme against the Food Safety and Quality Management System, customer Codes of Practice and relevant standards. This includes supporting customer, third-party and regulatory audits, tracking findings to closure and escalating overdue actions or recurring issues.
Support food safety incident investigations, ensuring corrective and preventive actions are assigned, tracked and verified for effectiveness. Escalate significant incidents, risks and repeated non-conformances to the Regional Compliance Lead.
Provide practical guidance, training and coaching to help site teams embed food safety standards and controls.
Promote a food safety culture built on ownership, timely reporting, action follow-up and shared learning.
Use KPI trends, audit findings and incident data to prioritise improvements and targeted corrective action.
This role is primarily site-based, with occasional travel for audits, meetings and wider compliance initiatives.
Ideally this is you!
Essential:
Food Science related degree or equivalent relevant food manufacturing experience.
Strong food safety compliance experience within manufacturing, ideally in bakery or chilled / ambient food production.
BRCGS or retailer standard audit experience.
Food Safety Level 3 or equivalent.
HACCP Level 3 or equivalent.
Internal auditor experience.
Good understanding of food safety legislation, customer requirements and site standards.
Strong facilitation, organisation and project coordination skills, with attention to detail.
Effective written and verbal communication skills and the ability to influence at all levels.
Good Microsoft Office skills, particularly Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.
Current full driving licence.
Desirable:
Lead auditor training or experience.
Allergen management training or practical validation experience.
VACCP and TACCP training.
Experience of food safety KPI reporting, trend analysis and action tracking systems.
Experience creating or revising food safety procedures, forms or guidance documents.
Experience or knowledge of broader QHSE compliance