Senior Food Safety & Quality Technical Lead

Pilgrim'S Europe; North Kelsey CP; Presencial; GBP 55.000 - 75.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Pilgrim's Europe seeks a senior Quality and Food Safety Leader to champion high standards at the North Kelsey site. You will mentor the Technical Team, oversee HACCP, lead audits and drive corrective actions in partnership with internal stakeholders.

Focus on building a robust quality culture, investigating non-conformances, and delivering continuous improvement to meet customer codes of practice and regulatory requirements.

Formación

• 3 years Chilled food industry experience
• Previous Technical management in QA or Process Development
• Experience with major retailers' technical representatives
• Factory audit experience or qualification
• Raw materials knowledge
• Meat processing knowledge
• Knowledge of fresh meat processing requirements
• Microbiology affecting meat products
• Raw meat knowledge including welfare standards
• CI tools and techniques
• Cost control, health and safety, quality systems management
• Microbiological and hygiene-based management programmes
• Ethical trading requirements and control systems

Responsabilidades

• Act as mentor to staff in championing food safety and quality values
• Support site events to promote standards and awareness of Quality and Food Safety
• Investigate non-conformances using root cause analysis and corrective actions
• Ensure team understands their role in achieving objectives
• Recruit, manage conduct, attendance, and disciplinary matters with HR support
• Enable team to achieve outputs efficiently and develop for future needs
• Coach and train team to carry out tasks
• Develop internal relationships for cross-functional cooperation
• Audit and support site to meet customer codes of practice
• Promote Food Safety, legality and Quality within the business
• Prepare site for audits and customer visits and close actions
• Provide technical advice and support to business and customers
• Investigate trends and implement preventive actions
• Lead investigations of pathogenic or spoilage events and crisis actions
• Develop solutions for new standards/COPs
• Lead technically challenging investigations and root cause analysis
• Control HACCP implementation and monitoring across products and developments
• Suggest improvements to maintain costs at planned level
• Understand business requirements and impact of decisions
• Highlight cost-reduction opportunities
• Implement site vision and KPI-driven performance
• Oversee site overhead management with other departments
• Drive innovation in technical processes and quality controls
• Deliver customer-focused technical support and meet expectations
• Be ambassadors for Quality and Food Safety on site
• Participate in external audits and customer visits
• Liaise with suppliers and customers on quality issues

Conocimientos

Chilled foods

FMCG manufacturing

Leadership

Quality systems

HACCP

Root cause analysis

Meat processing

Microbiology knowledge

Ethical trading

Cost control

Educación

BSc in Food Science

Food Safety Level 4

Lead Auditor

Descripción del empleo

Pilgrim's Europe seeks a senior Quality and Food Safety Leader to champion high standards at the North Kelsey site. You will mentor the Technical Team, oversee HACCP, lead audits and drive corrective actions in partnership with internal stakeholders.

Focus on building a robust quality culture, investigating non-conformances, and delivering continuous improvement to meet customer codes of practice and regulatory requirements.