Overview
Vacancy Name: Food Safety Manager
Employment Type: Permanent
Country: United Kingdom
Location: Long Sutton
Business Area: Corporate
Workplace Type: Onsite
Role Description
Job Purpose: This role is accountable for defining, direct management and continuous improvement of all governance requirements concerning Food Safety on the site. It supports the site Technical Manager who manages all direct factory and shift responsibility covering people, product and process for the factory operations. It ensures strong and proactive relationships within and between site technical and operations teams. The role is accountable for the technical performance of compliance requirements, HACCP implementation, technical strategy outputs, thermal controls, audit management and standards, and site governance for customer requirements. The role is deputy to the Senior Technical Manager and supports the leadership of the group and site technical strategy outputs. It supports the overall site delivery and technical teams to ensure quality, legal, food safety, brand integrity and culture is driven and compliant. It leads all audit requirements to drive a robust review programme to assess compliance, hygiene and GMP monitoring assessments. It manages all 3rd party and EHO audit requirements, including preparation, facilitation, conclusion, review and corrective action follow ups. It ensures all site risk assessments cover BRC standard requirements, including allergenic, cleaning, adulterations, claims, nutritional, microbiological, chemical, shelf life and quality inspection points. It provides leadership to drive continuous improvement in food safety standards within the technical department and across the site, developing short-, medium- and long-term strategies, leading focused improvement teams in Complaints, Compliance and HACCP fundamentals. It works with the Quality Services Manager to maintain, review, audit and continuously improve the site quality system in accordance with central policies, customer requirements and BRC/ISO standards, implementing industry best practices. It facilitates the evaluation of site operating practices and procedures in line with the HACCP Management System with audits, reviews and verification measures covering all pre-requests and CCPs.
Principal Responsibilities
* Drive and lead all quality management systems, audit management for internal and third party completion including preparation, management and corrective action close out, factory fundamentals of HACCP, food defence and integrity, CCP process controls of pasteurisation/sterilisation.
* Define the appropriate process validation parameters for the pasteurisation system including worst-case scenarios to develop safe operating practices for factory running conditions. Define process conditions and escalation protocols linked to process deviations based on HACCP principles.
* Ensure HACCP risk assessments are robust, reflective and effectively managed to produce products right first time.
* Define all external testing requirements with suitable testing regimes to verify pack claim verification.
* Collaborate with site QA and NPD technical teams to monitor, improve, trend and continuously challenge the quality standards of product attributes through end finished product testing, inbound sampling and on-line assessments to manage end-to-end process and product specifications, promoting a right first time approach with clear specifications and factory operating specifications.
* Define and manage calibration systems to ensure equipment involved in safety and quality monitoring is traceable to national standards; work with site OEMs and engineering teams to complete calibration and verification activities at set frequency; incorporate measurement uncertainty into operation processes.
* Conduct required audits including CIP, clean as you go, GMP, internal audits and finished goods; maintain product Food Safety, Legality, Integrity, Authenticity and Quality standards by ensuring policies and procedures are adhered to.
* Lead and manage a team with development, training, coaching, mentoring and workload organisation.
* Liaise with the Group Technical function and across other sites to share and implement best practice to drive Princes Group standards.
* Define, monitor and review testing regimes for authenticity, adulteration, allergenic, microbiological and chemical performance across raw materials, WIP and finished products to support claims and customer requirements while managing the department budget.
* Work with site Operations and Hygiene Manager to support investigations based on analyst sampling data and develop continuous improvement approaches for the team to go, look & see audit processes.
In addition to core sector requirements
* The drinks sector Food Safety Manager role covers: Lead the site laboratory teams for microbiological, chemical and adulteration monitoring programmes, including CLAS Laboratory accreditation requirements. Lead, support, train and manage the microbiologist team to perform required product analysis within Lab and Factory environments with a continuous improvement approach. Lead and support the review of site HACCP validation and operating parameters for all food safety aspects. Ensure systems cover authenticity requirements for adulteration governance, testing schedules, supplier management and release protocols to support all claims. Define calibration and process validation for key production pasteurisation equipment, laboratory management and monitoring for nutritional, authenticity and quality assessment, and evaluate cleaning and CIP performance for compliance with food safety, health and safety, and environmental legislation.
* Lead and manage site analysts and training/development plans, and support out-of-hours investigations as required.
Benefits
* Cash Car Allowance
* 25 Days Annual Leave plus Birthday off
* 14.5% Pension – 5% employee opt in / 9.5% employer
* Flexible Holiday Option - Buy 5 Additional Days
* Enhanced Family Friendly & Carers Policies
* Life Assurance Cover
* Private Medical Insurance
* Critical Illness Cover
* Learning & Development Opportunities
* Potential Corporate Incentive Scheme (company performance based)
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