Food jobs in United Kingdom

Danish Crown is a food company owned by Danish farmers, supplying high-quality food to customers and consumers all over the world. We are committed to lowering our carbon footprint and becoming climate neutral by 2050, for better food and a brighter future.

• An amazing 28 days’ holiday plus bank holidays – that’s up to 36 days holiday a year
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and share parental leave
• Enhanced company sick pay
• Matched company pension scheme
• Seasonal free meat boxes for the family
• Well-being programmes, with free optional health care cash plans to cover your everyday healthcare costs and which offer a wide range of digital and virtual wellbeing tools to support both your health and the people you care about.
• Free Employee Assistance Programme for all colleagues and their families
• Free parking
• Free hot drinks, toast and porridge
• Development opportunities for those that would like to progress in a global business

There is an exciting opportunity to join the food safety team here at our Cornwall site near Bugle. Our site debones, cures and smokes pork legs which requires the very highest levels of hygiene and safety standards.

Working within a small team, quality and food safety is our focus. This factory-based role requires you to work closely with the production team on the factory floor to ensure compliance with site procedures, policies, and customer requirements.

• Factory food quality Inspections and verification of factory records
• Calibration of equipment
• Swab and sample collection including registration
• Factory GMP and internal audits
• Incident management including complaint investigations
• Project work where requested
• Any other general related task for the team
• Assisting the Compliance Manager where required

• Previous experience in a quality assurance or food safety role within a chilled food production environment
• Excellent communication and reporting skills
• Ability to conduct, report and communicate internal audits
• Understanding of CCP’s and procedures
• Ability to work under pressure with attention to detail
• Computer experience and skills regarding use of Microsoft Word and Excel
• Level 2 Food Safety and HACCP training (Beneficial)

Hours of work are Monday – Friday, 05:00 to 14:30, 42 hrs per week. Shift patterns may differ during initial training. Occasional weekends will be required during peak periods.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits include: Bereavement leave, Canteen, Casual dress, Company events, Company pension, Cycle to work scheme, Discounted or free food, Employee discount, Enhanced maternity leave, Enhanced paternity leave, Free parking, Life insurance, On-site parking, Referral programme, Sick pay

Ability to commute/relocate: Cornwall, PL26 8RR: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required). Language: English (required). Work authorisation: United Kingdom (required). Work Location: In person.