Trainee Manager - Retail Food Safety & Quality

Working as part of our existing Food Safety & Quality team, you will gain a wide range of food safety & quality and business experience skills through continuous on the job development with coaching and mentoring. Your role will see you tackle a wide range of business challenges in a busy environment with a view to progress into a management role within the FSQ team.

Some of the responsibilities within the role are:

• Assisting with food safety & quality operations, procedures and document control;
• Ensuring the on-going maintenance and updating of the department files including SOP’s, Risk assessments, HACCP documents and quality management documents;
• Assisting in carrying out audits as per schedule;
• Assisting in evaluating the written SOP’s being implemented, trained and compiled with in all areas;
• Assisting with Completion of Food Safety and Integrity Risk Assessment of our raw materials and ingredients;
• Supporting the maintaining and managing of non-conformant logs;
• Logging of complaints and communicating to the relevant personnel;
• Assisting with close investigations into complaints including route cause analysis;
• Carrying out the microbiological and chemical sampling of finished product and raw materials as per sampling schedule;
• Carrying out internal audits and assisting with external and customer audits;
• Working collaboratively with the Food Safety and Quality team to monitor quality assurance, hygiene and food safety activities;

• A degree in a related discipline (Food Technology, Nutrition, Science);
• An understanding and awareness of HSE requirements, always complies and operates in line with policies and procedures;
• An understanding of operating integrity, quality processes and systems with high standards for compliance and quality;
• Strong financial understanding and business acumen;
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to develop and enhance food safety understanding throughout the site;
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office;
• Excellent time management;
• Understanding of team dynamics, demonstrating the ability to work as an active and constructive member of a team with a professional enthusiastic attitude;
• Excellent attention to detail;
• HACCP trained is an advantage;