Food Safety and Compliance Manager (12 month FTC)

Overview

At PepsiCo UK, we’re proud to make some of the nation’s favourite snacks and drinks—like Walkers, Quaker, Doritos, Pipers, and Monster Munch. With sites across the UK, including our Quaker mill in Cupar and Doritos factory in Coventry, we’re also home to one of the world’s largest crisp factories in Leicester.We have a fantastic reputation for developing and launching products that our consumers love. PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers around the world more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories. The company generated $70 billion in net revenue in 2020.We pride ourselves on being a great place to work and have recently been voted a Top Employer for the 11th year in a row.

Responsibilities

Responsible for Food Safety & Quality Compliance: Compliance to AIB and BRC

• Drive to reduce Harm/foreign body complaints
• Build a “culture” which drives Food Safety throughout the site
• Legal compliance owner (factory in control)
• Ensure HACCP, TACCP and VACCP in addition to allergen management program is affective
• Management of food safety non compliances through hold and concession process, including decision making with regards to Holds in accordance with PIUK standards
• Leading initiatives to drive correct behaviours to improve Food Safety throughout the site through the Ops Managers, Engineering Manager and SOMs
• Driving a “shared learning” approach to drive the Food Safety agenda by ensuring incidents and experiences from any one line are acted upon across all
• A key communicator on Food Safety and Compliance initiatives within the UK, liaising with UK Sector Quality Manager and Global Food Safety Team, as appropriate
• Working closely with Ops Managers, SOMs, Specialists, and liaison with all UK Food Safety & Quality Managers
• QFS lead for capital and commercial change.
• Deputising for QM when not at Site as part of the “Extended” Site Leadership Team (Weekly QCDM review, Weekly Safety Gemba attendance) liaising with SOMs, EHS Team and wider SLT.
• Deputising for QM holidays and absence
• Responsible for Site Food Defence Plan – including Vulnerability Assessment updates and reviews as required.

Qualifications

• Ability to understand and interpret a wide range of analytical and microbiological results and make timely and appropriate judgements based on the information
• Ability to set, plan and see through corrective and preventative actions
• Ability to manage cross functional “Problem Solving” teams
• A good understanding of food safety & quality systems – including AIB/BRC, HACCP, PepsiCo Quality systems, IPS, FIC and QCDM
• Able to apply root cause analysis and CAPA
• Lead incident investigations and understand hold and release processes & food safety risks.
• Ideally a knowledge of regulatory authorities, processes & powers (e.g., Environmental health & trading standards)

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