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.


Performance Objectives
*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.


Person Specification
*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.


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


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