Compliance Manager, Management

Compliance Manager

Competitive Salary

Monday - Friday / General Office Hours

Caernarfon

Our client based in the Caernarfon area are currently recruiting a Compliance Manager on a permanent basis. Reporting to the Head of Technical you will ensure the ongoing BRC and customer accreditation, food safety, legal and ethical, integrity and compliance of the company.

• Maintaining BRC, customer and local authority approval and customer codes of practice.
• Responsible for Food Safety and Legality site wide.
• Maintain the company audit schedule, root cause analysis, and corrective actions in collaboration with the operations team - ensure non‑conformances are raised, followed through and closed off.
• Liaison with the external and internal customers
• Supporting the QA manager with QA employees, across the shifts to complete the required workload and drive forward departmental policies and procedures.
• Manage, mentor and support Technical Compliance Auditor to ensure continuous learning and workload.
• Ensuring a culture of continuous improvement and challenging current practice
• To manage and monitor standards throughout the site and to ensure that the business is compliant with our and customer codes of practice
• Supporting HR department with implementing and managing SEDEX/SMETA requirements.
• Implementing new procedures and standards within the factory to make sure the site is complying with legislation and customer codes of practice
• Complete risk assessments where necessary to ensure compliance with legislation and customer codes of practice
• Record, investigate logging and responding.
• Working with all teams across the site to ensure the quality requirements are understood and practised by all.
• To champion hygiene across all aspects of the factory and drive the development of food safety culture, prompting awareness of the importance of hygiene & good manufacturing practice
• Maintain and develop the Q pulse system
• Manage the requirements of export documents ensuring that documentation is correct and complete for each load despatched.
• Quality and Food Safety training across the site in conjunction with HR and external training contractors.
• Coordinate and deliver accredited food safety training.
• Accident reporting - Ensure that all accidents /near miss forms are completed properly and that accident analysis forms are completed (appropriate evidence needs to be gathered at the time of the incident.
• Ensure that all appropriate and relevant H&S practices are being followed by team members, i.e. wearing of appropriate PPE.

• Ability to work under pressure and to deadlines.
• Ability to manage own workload without supervision.
• Good personal planning skills.
• Strong verbal, numeracy and written communication skills.
• Assertiveness, delegation and analytical skills.
• Ability to work with cross‑functional teams at all levels.
• Decision maker.
• Educated to degree level and experience of working in a Quality management role, with a food manufacturing, HACCP, COSHH, Health and Safety qualified.
• Able to deliver Food Safety and related training - a training qualification preferable.
• Experience of working with multiple retailers and aware of their standards and codes of practice.

• Holidays - 25 days plus Bank Holidays.
• 5% pension contribution.
• Full sickness payment based on qualifying criteria.