Compliance Manager, Manufacturing ​/ Production

Overview

If you are a quality specialist within FMCG food manufacturing, seeking an opportunity to put your years of experience within the industry to the test and take your career to that next level, we would love to speak with you. This is a dual-site role where you will be leading the compliance of our quality standards across both our Kegworth and Milton Keynes site.

12 Month Fixed Term Contract.

Working hours:

8:30am – 5pm Monday – Thursday, 8:30am – 4pm Fridays.

• Lead the site internal audits function to agree internal audit schedules and ensure they are completed.
• Monitor the standard of internal audits carried out on site and ensure they are consistent.
• Provide training for the site internal auditors.
• Monitor internal audit corrective actions to ensure they are completed to an appropriate standard and to agreed timescales.
• Facilitate all 3rd party certification and customer audits.
• Coordinate customer / 3rd party audits ensuring that resources are available and that relevant functions are aware of their input requirements and timings.
• Monitor audit corrective actions to ensure they are completed to an appropriate standard and to agreed timescales.
• Lead the site HACCP studies ensuring each study is completed and reviewed to required timescales, involves personnel with appropriate training and experience in meets the requirements of customers and recognised industry standards.
• Lead the site TACCP studies ensuring each study involves personnel with the appropriate training and experience.
• Complete gap analysis on all new standards applicable to the site ensuring internal standards are updated and communicated to ensure continued compliance.
• Manage the document library for the site, ensuring all documents are up to date and reviewed to required time frames.
• Work closely with all other standards and compliance managers and the Technical Systems manager to ensure group standards remain convergent and appropriate for the UK BU.
• Management of pest controllers to be the main point of contact between the pest control contractor and site, communicate corrective actions identified by the pest control contractor to the relevant personnel and monitor to ensure they are completed to an appropriate standard and to the agreed timescale. Pest control activities and records meet requirements to pass customer and external audits.

• Level 4 HACCP and Level 3 TACCP
• Degree in a Science or Food Technology or 5+ years industry experience in an influential technical/quality role.
• Demonstrable operational experience, together with significant exposure, gained ideally in a fast moving consumer goods environment.
• Fully conversant with modern manufacturing methodologies.
• Organised and persistent, able to work alone but able to achieve the desired results through influencing people.
• Innovative and entrepreneurial thinker, interested in food and drink and improving quality systems.
• You will need to work flexibly within the needs of the business, have ability to plan and prioritise own workload and enjoy working in a team.

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If you believe you are a great match for this profile, we want to hear from you.

Refresco is the global independent beverage solutions provider for Global, National and Emerging brands, and retailers with production in Europe, North America, and Australia. Refresco offers an extensive range of product and packaging combinations from juices to carbonated soft drinks and mineral waters in carton, PET, Aseptic PET, cans, and glass. Refresco continuously searches for new and alternative ways to improve the quality of its products and packaging combinations in line with consumer and customer demand, environmental responsibilities, and market demand.

Refresco is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and has more than 13,500 employees.  Our drinks on every table. That s the Refresco vision. We’re a global business and currently produce 12 billion litres of soft drinks from 64 manufacturing plants in 12 countries and we’re only just getting started. We’re the proud owners of six drinks manufacturing sites within the UK.

Our UK business provides a great place to work for over 1,800 employees, who produce private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers. Whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards. Our products get where they need to be when they need to get there to meet the needs of our high-profile customers.

Refresco believes that equal opportunity for all is fundamental to our company s values and all our applicants can expect fairness and transparency in our recruitment process.