Compliance Manager
Competitive Salary
Monday - Friday / General Office Hours
Caernarfon
Our client based in the Caernarfon area are currently recruiting a Compliance Manager on a permanent basis. Reporting to the Head of Technical you will ensure the ongoing BRC and customer accreditation, food safety, legal and ethical, integrity and compliance of the company.
Performance Objectives
* Maintaining BRC, customer and local authority approval and customer codes of practice.
* Responsible for Food Safety and Legality site wide.
* Maintain the company audit schedule, root cause analysis, and corrective actions in collaboration with the operations team - ensure non‑conformances are raised, followed through and closed off.
* Liaison with the external and internal customers
* Supporting the QA manager with QA employees, across the shifts to complete the required workload and drive forward departmental policies and procedures.
* Manage, mentor and support Technical Compliance Auditor to ensure continuous learning and workload.
* Ensuring a culture of continuous improvement and challenging current practice
* To manage and monitor standards throughout the site and to ensure that the business is compliant with our and customer codes of practice
* Supporting HR department with implementing and managing SEDEX/SMETA requirements.
* Implementing new procedures and standards within the factory to make sure the site is complying with legislation and customer codes of practice
* Complete risk assessments where necessary to ensure compliance with legislation and customer codes of practice
* Record, investigate logging and responding.
* Working with all teams across the site to ensure the quality requirements are understood and practised by all.
* To champion hygiene across all aspects of the factory and drive the development of food safety culture, prompting awareness of the importance of hygiene & good manufacturing practice
* Maintain and develop the Q pulse system
* Manage the requirements of export documents ensuring that documentation is correct and complete for each load despatched.
* Quality and Food Safety training across the site in conjunction with HR and external training contractors.
* Coordinate and deliver accredited food safety training.
* Accident reporting - Ensure that all accidents /near miss forms are completed properly and that accident analysis forms are completed (appropriate evidence needs to be gathered at the time of the incident.
* Ensure that all appropriate and relevant H&S practices are being followed by team members, i.e. wearing of appropriate PPE.
Person Specification
* Ability to work under pressure and to deadlines.
* Ability to manage own workload without supervision.
* Good personal planning skills.
* Strong verbal, numeracy and written communication skills.
* Assertiveness, delegation and analytical skills.
* Ability to work with cross‑functional teams at all levels.
* Decision maker.
* Educated to degree level and experience of working in a Quality management role, with a food manufacturing, HACCP, COSHH, Health and Safety qualified.
* Able to deliver Food Safety and related training - a training qualification preferable.
* Experience of working with multiple retailers and aware of their standards and codes of practice.
Benefits
* Holidays - 25 days plus Bank Holidays.
* 5% pension contribution.
* Full sickness payment based on qualifying criteria.
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