Food Safety & Quality Manager

Food Safety & Quality Manager
Location: Anwick
Hours: 223 shift pattern 6am-6pm

Are you a passionate food safety and quality professional looking to take the next step in your career? Pilgrim's Europe is seeking an experienced Food Safety & Quality Manager to lead food safety, quality, and compliance activities within a fast-paced food manufacturing environment.

This is a key role responsible for maintaining the highest standards of product safety, legality, and quality while driving continuous improvement across the site.

What You'll Do

• Lead and continuously improve the site's HACCP-based Food Safety & Quality Management System.
• Ensure products consistently meet customer, legal, and food safety requirements.
• Support successful new product and process introductions from concept to launch.
• Lead customer, BRCGS, third-party, and regulatory audits, ensuring compliance and effective corrective actions.
• Manage non-conforming products, customer complaints, product holds, and investigations.
• Monitor hygiene, housekeeping, and factory standards through regular audits and inspections.
• Analyse microbiological and chemical trends to identify risks and implement preventative actions.
• Lead serious incident investigations, crisis management activities, and water quality programmes.
• Manage, coach, and develop the Food Safety & Quality team.
• Provide technical guidance and training across the site to promote a strong food safety culture.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance quality, compliance, and operational performance.
• Degree qualification in Food Science, Food Technology, or a related discipline.
• Proven experience within an FMCG food manufacturing environment.
• Strong working knowledge of HACCP, BRCGS, Food Safety, Food Hygiene, and Food Legislation.
• Experience leading customer, third-party, and regulatory audits.
• Previous people management and team leadership experience.
• Excellent communication, organisational, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong experience of root cause analysis, corrective actions, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to build effective relationships with customers, auditors, and stakeholders.
• Advanced Diploma in Applied HACCP Principles.
• Project management, coaching, and training experience.
• Experience managing customer technical relationships and responding to quality issues.

*We are currently unable to provide sponsorship*