Food Safety Manager

Yolk Recruitment Ltd; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading manufacturing group is seeking a skilled Food Safety Manager to oversee food safety governance across multiple sites. The role demands strong leadership in food safety, HACCP expertise, and audit compliance. You will manage technical teams, develop robust safety systems, and ensure compliance with UK retailer standards. This position offers a competitive salary up to £60,000, a 14% pension contribution, and comprehensive coverage including critical illness and life assurance.

Benefits

Competitive salary

14% pension contributions

Critical illness cover

Life assurance cover

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading food safety or technical functions.
• Excellent understanding of UK retailer technical requirements.
• Strong team leadership, coaching, and mentoring experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead food safety and quality governance across multiple manufacturing sites.
• Manage audit preparation, execution, and close-out for BRC, IFS, EHO, and 3rd party standards.
• Own and develop site HACCP systems, food defence and integrity, and CCP controls.
• Define and manage process validation protocols for pasteurization and sterilization processes.
• Ensure all risk assessments are current and fully aligned to BRC standards.
• Oversee product compliance for allergen, microbiological, chemical, nutritional, and shelf-life parameters.
• Drive technical strategies for continuous improvement in quality, compliance, and complaints reduction.
• Manage and mentor a multi-disciplinary technical team across food and drink production sites.
• Define and maintain robust calibration, testing, and traceability systems.
• Collaborate with Technical, NPD and QA teams to enhance product specifications and factory performance.
• Act as deputy to the Senior Technical Manager and support wider group strategy delivery.
• Champion a strong food safety culture across the business.

Skills

Food Safety Governance

HACCP

Audit Compliance

Team Leadership

Job description

Food Safety Manager

£50,000 - £60,000

Yolk Recruitment is proud to be supporting a high-performing manufacturing group in their search for a Food Safety Manager. If you're an experienced technical leader with deep knowledge of food safety governance, HACCP, and audit compliance this could be your next big move!

This is a critical and high impact role responsible for managing and continuously improving food safety systems across multiple manufacturing sites. You'll lead core food safety activities, manage technical teams across sectors, and play a key part in driving best practice and continuous improvement across the group.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead food safety and quality governance across multiple manufacturing sites
• Manage audit preparation, execution and close-out for BRC, IFS, EHO, and 3rd party standards
• Own and develop site HACCP systems, food defence and integrity, and CCP controls
• Define and manage process validation protocols for pasteurisation and sterilisation processes
• Ensure all risk assessments are current and fully aligned to BRC standards
• Oversee product compliance for allergen, microbiological, chemical, nutritional, and shelf-life parameters
• Drive technical strategies for continuous improvement in quality, compliance, and complaints reduction
• Manage and mentor a multi-disciplinary technical team across food and drink production sites
• Define and maintain robust calibration, testing, and traceability systems
• Collaborate with Technical, NPD and QA teams to enhance product specifications and factory performance
• Act as deputy to the Senior Technical Manager and support wider group strategy delivery
• Champion a strong food safety culture across the business.

This is what you'll need:

• Proven experience leading food safety or technical functions.
• Excellent understanding of UK retailer technical requirements.
• Strong team leadership, coaching, and mentoring experience.

And this is what you'll get:

• Competitive salary.
• 14% pension contributions.
• Critical illness cover.
• Life assurance cover.