Food Safety & Quality Compliance Manager

UNAVAILABLE; Dungannon; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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 Op…

Employee Engagement Activities

Give Aways (Free meat seasonally)

Refer a Friend Scheme

Death in Service scheme

Job summary

UNAVAILABLE seeks a Compliance Manager to join the Food Safety and Quality team to ensure regulatory and customer expectations are met while protecting brand reputation.

You will manage customer-specific compliance for key accounts, oversee supplier food safety risk assessments, allergen management, and ensure up-to-date documentation and risk assessments across the site. Strong communication and planning skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in a similar role in a food manufacturing environment.
• Understand food hygiene, food safety, HACCP, TACCP/VACCP, risk assessments, health and safety and quality systems.
• Be results driven with the ability to improve performance within the department.
• Strong organisational and workload planning skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage customer-specific compliance requirements across key retail accounts to meet retailer standards and contractual obligations.
• Own supplier Food Safety Risk Assessments, including high-risk ingredients, allergen controls, and supplier validations.
• Lead allergen management and ingredient risk assessments using supplier information to ensure compliant risk evaluations.
• Maintain and update compliance documentation (allergen schedules, product listings, ingredient assessments) and communicate changes.
• Oversee TACCP and product risk assessments to reflect ingredient changes and new product launches.
• Oversee compliance testing and data management, documenting testing in the FIIN portal for traceability.

Skills

HACCP knowledge

TACCP/VACCP knowledge

Quality systems

Communication skills

Organisational skills

English proficiency

Education

Food Safety and Quality related degree

Job description

Overview

We are seeking a dedicated Compliance Manager to join the Food Safety and Quality team to ensure the business can effectively meet evolving customer, regulatory and food safety expectations while protecting commercial opportunities and maintaining brand reputation.

Responsibilities

The Role

Key responsibilities and business-critical activities include:

• Managing customer-specific compliance requirements across key retail accounts, ensuring Dungannon Retail consistently meets retailer standards, audit expectations and contractual obligations.
• Ownership of Supplier Food Safety Risk Assessments, including the evaluation of high-risk ingredients, allergen controls, supplier cleaning validations and the completion of mandatory six-monthly and annual reviews. Robust supplier oversight is essential to safeguarding product integrity and reducing food safety risks.
• Leading allergen management and ingredient risk assessments, including the review and analysis of supplier information within Point 74 to ensure accurate risk evaluations and compliance with food safety legislation and retailer requirements.
• Maintaining and controlling compliance documentation, ensuring allergen schedules, product listings, ingredient assessments and associated records are promptly updated, validated and communicated following any supplier, product or process changes.
• Managing and updating TACCP and product risk assessments to reflect ingredient changes, new product launches, product delists and emerging risks, ensuring the site maintains a proactive and effective risk management framework.
• Oversight of compliance testing and data management, including the accurate recording and monitoring of testing information through the FIIN data portal, providing transparency, traceability and evidence of compliance.

Qualifications

The Person

• A Food Safety and Quality related degree is desirable, equivalent experience will be considered
• Be able to illustrate a proven track record in a similar role, ideally from within a food manufacturing environment.
• Have a clear understanding of food hygiene, food safety, HACCP, TACCP/VACCP, risk assessments, health and safety and quality systems.
• Be results driven and able to improve performance within the department.
• Possess excellent organisational skills with ability to plan workloads effectively to meet deadlines.
• Have strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
• English is essential in this role as is the ability to operate computers and computer software.
• Be able to develop effective working relationships with all departments

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

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