Food Safety Technologist

Why Greencore?We''re a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make everyday taste better. We''re a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing 13,300 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 FY24, we generated revenues of £1.8bn.

Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,500 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties.

At Greencore we actively encourage our colleagues to apply for our vacancies, whether as a lateral move to broaden experience or the next step up to progress your career and development. We also welcome applications from external candidates who are eager to grow their career with us.

Here at

Northampton , we operate one of the most impressive facilities in Europe, based across a campus of 5 manufacturing units, and we have a team of around 2,000 colleagues making high quality premium products every day. We are the sole supplier of sandwiches, wraps, rolls and sushi for Marks and Spencer

What You''ll Be DoingAs

Food Safety Technologist , you will support the implementation of the food safety and quality management systems by verifying that standards, customer requirements and legal obligations are being met in full.

Execute microbiological swab plans, complete hygiene audits and update training documentation to ensure legal, safety and customer compliance

Investigate customer complaints to establish any failures within the manufacturing process to ensure that any issues can be addressed in the short and longer term

Provide insight from audit results to site governance meetings to drive audit compliance, to share best practice and to encourage continuous improvement of quality systems

Ensure that procedures, allergen matrices and hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP) are up to date to maintain the integrity of the quality management system (QMS) documentation

Represent the technical team at New Product Development (NPD) forums and complete follow up actions to ensure that all new products have food safety considerations included from the outset

Complete internal audits on food safety processes as part of the Internal Audit team to ensure that the sites are always audit ready

Complete root cause analysis of any audit failures and feedback conclusions and recommendations to relevant managers to ensure that the issue is eliminated for the future

What We''re Looking ForWe''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.

Experience of working in an entry-level technical management role in a food environment

Practical experience of working to Level 3 HACCP and Level 3 food hygiene standards

Practical experience of internal technical auditing at entry-level technical management responsibility levels

Practical experience of problem solving and risk assessment

Good written and verbal communication skills

If this sounds like you, join us and 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

Life insurance up to 4x salary

Company share save scheme

Greencore Qualifications

Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform

Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies

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