Food Safety & HACCP Manager

Food Safety & HACCP Manager

South Cheshire / North Staffordshire

Salary to £32,000 pa

A growing business, this food manufacturer supply products to major food manufacturing, food retail and food wholesale customers. As part of their continued development and following a restructure, they now seek to recruit a Food Safety & HACCP Manager for their Low Risk BRC Accredited site.

As Food Safety & HACCP Manager, the focus will be on implementing and monitoring the systems and procedures that will ensure the business is producing safe compliant products and meeting its policies and obligations to food safety. Duties include leading HACCP activities including HACCP audit and validation, delivering training and promoting awareness within Food Safety, Quality and HACCP across the site. The jobholder will also manage COSHH, chemical approval and control processes for chemicals, and will lead allergen control programmes.

There will be a requirement to investigate Food Safety issues such as complaints and non-conformance, identify root causes and implement preventative and corrective actions, utilising improvement tools such as 6 Sigma. Auditing will be a key duty of the role, including the undertaking of HACCP, Internal and Customer Audits to ensure legislative compliance. The Food Safety managers performance will be measured by compliance with annual Food Safety complaint target, reduction in Food Safety complaints and A Grade achieved in BRC Audits.

The individual who takes this role on will be keen to train and develop a small team, and will want to drive change and improve ways of working. We are seeking an individual with an enquiring mind who is confident to challenge existing ways of working in the pursuit of improving the business and implementing more robust food safety systems and procedures.

We would be delighted to hear from individuals who have been Supervisors or Managers and hold Level 3 HACCP and Level 2 Food Hygiene, combined with a track record in the management of food safety within a food production environment. Experience of BRC, Internal and HACCP Auditing is also expected. Ref 2867

This vacancy is commutable from: Knutsford, Macclesfield, Prestbury, Alderley Edge, Stockport, Congleton, Northwich, Winsford, Crewe, Nantwich, Kidsgrove, Stoke, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Middlewich, Tarporley