We’re a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing around 13,600 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK’s food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY23, we generated revenues of £1.9bn.

Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,400 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties.

What you'll be doing

• Carry out risk assessed audits and approval of the supplier base for manufacturing sites in order to demonstrate food safety, compliance and legality are being met
• Comprehensive understanding of supplier requirements in order to ensure delivery of technical food safety criteria for the manufacturing sites
• Ensure Food Safety audits and approvals are conducted on an appropriate, risk assessed schedule whilst also ensuring other Manufacturing requirements are met from an auditing perspective (e.g. Emergency audits, new supplier approval audits, innovation auditing and investigations)
• Communication of best practice and suggest ways of working to ensure effectiveness across the group from a compliance and technical standards perspective
• Ensure up to date technical policies and procedures are operational and aligned to best practice from a legal and customer compliance perspective.

What we’re looking for

The successful applicant will have the following qualifications and experience:

• Degree / L4 Food Science or equivalent qualification
• L4 HACCP
• Retail knowledge
• Relevant Food Science / micro qualification
• Internal Audit Management
• QMS management
• Technical Strategy implementation
• BRC/certification knowledge
• KPI generation
• RCA – problem solving techniques
• Lead Assessor qualification
• Customer COP knowledge
• Food legislation

We’re not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.

If this sounds like you join us, grow with Greencore and be a part of driving our future success.

What you’ll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.