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Senior Food Safety & Quality Manager FTC
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Senior Food Safety & Quality Manager FTC
Location: Anwick
Are you an experienced food industry professional with a passion for quality, compliance, and continuous improvement? We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Food Safety & Quality Manager to join our Technical team at our Anwick site.
This is a key leadership role within the site management team, where you will work closely with Operations, Engineering, and Technical colleagues to drive food safety standards, customer satisfaction, and operational excellence.
Responsibilities
As Senior Food Safety & Quality Manager, you will:
- Lead and develop the Food Safety & Quality team, ensuring technical requirements are consistently met.
- Support and deputise for the Technical Manager when required.
- Drive compliance with customer, retailer, legal, and third-party standards.
- Ensure successful customer and third-party audits, maintaining excellent site audit performance.
- Maintain and develop HACCP systems, food safety standards, and site technical integrity.
- Oversee product quality, traceability, and internal auditing programmes.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives across the site and wider business.
- Collaborate with operational teams to deliver quality improvements and technical KPIs.
- Champion a strong food safety culture while coaching and developing team members.
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Essential
- Degree-level qualification in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience.
- Proven quality management experience within the food manufacturing industry.
- Experience working with major retail customers.
- Strong understanding of BRC Standards, HACCP, Food Legislation, and Food Hygiene.
- Excellent communication, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.
- Demonstrated leadership experience with the ability to develop and motivate teams.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
- Self-motivated, proactive, and results-focused approach.
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Desirable
- Training, coaching, or project management experience.
- Experience within chilled food, high-care, or high-risk manufacturing environments.
- Advanced HACCP qualification.
- Poultry processing or cooking knowledge.
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