Trainee Food Safety & Quality Manager - Primary

Working as part of our existing Food Safety & Quality team, you will gain a wide range of food safety, quality, animal welfare and business experience skills through continuous on the job development with coaching and mentoring. Your role will see you tackle a wide range of business challenges in a busy environment with a view to progress into a management role within the FSQ team.

Benefits: 

• Enhanced Holiday
• Free On-Site Car Carking
• Subsidised Canteen
• Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance Cover
• Discounted Staff Shop
• Phone and Car Insurance Perks
• Free Health Surveillance
• Ongoing Training and Progression Opportunities
• Employee Engagement Activities
• Give Aways (Free meat seasonally)
• Refer a Friend Scheme
• Death in Service scheme

The Role

Some of the responsibilities within the role are:

• Assisting with food safety, quality & animal welfare operations, procedures and document control;
• Ensuring the on-going maintenance and updating of the department files including SOP’s, Risk Assessments, HACCP documents and quality management documents;
• Assisting in carrying out audits as per schedule;
• Assisting in evaluating the written SOP’s being implemented, trained and compiled with in all areas;
• Assisting with Completion of Food Safety and Integrity Risk Assessment our raw materials and processes;
• Supporting the maintaining and managing of non-conformant logs;
• Logging of complaints and communicating to the relevant personnel;
• Animal Welfare management activities;
• Assisting with close investigations into complaints including route cause analysis;
• Carrying out the microbiological and chemical sampling of product raw materials and environmental areas as per sampling schedule;
• Carrying out internal audits and assisting with external and customer audits;
• Working collaboratively with the Food Safety and Quality & Animal Welfare teams to monitor quality assurance, hygiene and food safety and AW activities;

The Person

The ideal candidate will have or demonstrate:

• A degree in a related discipline (Food Technology, Nutrition, Science);or
• Previous experience working in a food quality / technical role and seeking career development.
• An understanding and awareness of HSE requirements, always complies and operates in line with policies and procedures;
• An understanding of operating integrity, quality processes and systems with high standards for compliance and quality;
• Strong financial understanding and business acumen;
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to develop and enhance food safety understanding throughout the site;
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office;
• Excellent time management;

No company sponsorship is available to overseas applicants for this position. 

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