Position Title: Technical and Food Safety Lead
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Position Location: Hull
Requisition ID: 31745
There’s nothing beige about McCain…
Except our potatoes — and we’re extremely passionate about them.
When you join McCain, you’ll be joining the biggest player in the frozen potato game, bringing people together around the nation for over 60 years by sharing simple, delicious planet friendly food.
We’ve partnered with thousands of the country’s supermarkets, pubs, restaurants, hospitals, and schools to change the way people see the humble spud. It’s all about elevation and creating something better.
So, come and make your career at McCain Foods.
About the role
You will lead the Hull plant in Food Safety, ensuring all systems, culture and product standards are designed to meet both McCain and customer expectations and drive continuous improvement. Support the Hull Plant Manager and site Management team, providing best practice technical expertise, influence and direction.
Responsibilities and Accountabilities
Key focus:
* Change agent, driving a culture of accountability and right first-time approach to food safety
* Implementation of food safety pre-requisites, systems and leading indicators to manage food safety and drive continuous improvement
* Quality – working with QA Management ensuring effective process control is in place to measure FTQ and drive continuous improvement, through QA
* Sensory – comply with Customer and McCain standards and lead evolution supporting Stewardship and product superiority
* People – development of people capability, succession planning and engagement
* Systems – to meet customer and McCain requirements, audit compliance, best practice, shared learnings and continuous improvement
* MDI Site Element Owner – ensuring roll out and conformance to the McCain Global Programme
Day to day responsibilities include:
* Business Partner to the Plant Manager and provide technical expertise and advice acting as first point of contact. Site Technical lead, responsible for the planning and compliance of systems and product specification
* Work closely with the R&D team on new product development and execution, meeting customer standards and McCain food safety and quality standards
* Key customer relationship management
* Lead on all new supplier activity
* Ownership of the internal audit process
* Responsibility for the Product, environment & materials (packaging/Ingredients)
* Site host for customer and regulatory audits
* Ensure sensory requirements are understood and communicated to sensory team, working closely with Research & Development and sensory manager
* Identify internal technical training needs
* Co-ordinate the activity for the transfer of knowledge and collaborate with NPD and internal teams and stakeholders for product specification, sensory requirements, new allergens and potential risks at site level
* Attend line trials and be responsible for approval and sign off from a food safety perspective
* Continuously assessing food safety risks and resolving issues, whilst maintaining consistency across sites working with the regional team
* Own the HACCP team and play a key role in driving improvement in standards
* Site lead for FSQ for crisis management, including customer simulation exercises
* Identify on going measures required to validate product claims etc.
What’s in it for me?
Although we do encourage you to taste the goods you’ll be pleased to know we don’t pay you in chips. For working hard, you’ll also get a great salary and some pretty good benefits including:
* An excellent pension where we will pay double what you do, up to a maximum of 12% of your pay
* Flexible holidays – where you can buy & sell up to 5 days holiday per year
* Optional health cash plan
* Cycle to work scheme
* ‘Chips In’ Volunteering Day Off - to make a positive impact to the long-term development of McCain communities across the globe
And of course, being part of a Global business there are great opportunities to shine/thrive should you wish to relocate in the future. We have an impressive 5 year growth plan that presents development & progression opportunities for those who seek it out.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.
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Job Family: Quality & Food Safety
Division: GB Manufacturing & Supply Chain
Department: Regional Quality
Location(s): GB - United Kingdom : England : Hull || GB - United Kingdom : England : Bath || GB - United Kingdom : England : Birmingham* || GB - United Kingdom : England : Bradford* || GB - United Kingdom : England : Brighton & Hove || GB - United Kingdom : England : Bristol* || GB - United Kingdom : England : Cambridge || GB - United Kingdom : England : Canterbury* || GB - United Kingdom : England : Carlisle || GB - United Kingdom : England : Chelmsford || GB - United Kingdom : England : Chester* || GB - United Kingdom : England : Chichester || GB - United Kingdom : England : Colchester || GB - United Kingdom : England : Coventry* || GB - United Kingdom : England : Derby || GB - United Kingdom : England : Doncaster || GB - United Kingdom : England : Durham || GB - United Kingdom : England : Ely || GB - United Kingdom : England : Exeter* || GB - United Kingdom : England : Gloucester || GB - United Kingdom : England : Grantham || GB - United Kingdom : England : Hereford || GB - United Kingdom : England : Kingston-upon-Hull* || GB - United Kingdom : England : Lancaster || GB - United Kingdom : England : Leeds* || GB - United Kingdom : England : Leicester* || GB - United Kingdom : England : Lichfield || GB - United Kingdom : England : Lincoln || GB - United Kingdom : England : Liverpool* || GB - United Kingdom : England : London* || GB - United Kingdom : England : Manchester* || GB - United Kingdom : England : Milton Keynes || GB - United Kingdom : England : Newcastle-upon-Tyne* || GB - United Kingdom : England : Norwich* || GB - United Kingdom : England : Nottingham* || GB - United Kingdom : England : Oxford* || GB - United Kingdom : England : Peterborough || GB - United Kingdom : England : Plymouth* || GB - United Kingdom : England : Portsmouth* || GB - United Kingdom : England : Preston || GB - United Kingdom : England : Ripon || GB - United Kingdom : England : Salford || GB - United Kingdom : England : Salisbury || GB - United Kingdom : England : Scarborough || GB - United Kingdom : England : Sheffield* || GB - United Kingdom : England : Southampton* || GB - United Kingdom : England : Southend-on-Sea || GB - United Kingdom : England : St Albans || GB - United Kingdom : England : Stoke on Trent* || GB - United Kingdom : England : Sunderland || GB - United Kingdom : England : Truro || GB - United Kingdom : England : Wakefield || GB - United Kingdom : England : Wells || GB - United Kingdom : England : Westminster* || GB - United Kingdom : England : Whittlesey || GB - United Kingdom : England : Winchester || GB - United Kingdom : England : Wolverhampton || GB - United Kingdom : England : Wombourne || GB - United Kingdom : England : Worcester || GB - United Kingdom : England : York* || GB - United Kingdom : Other : Armagh* || GB - United Kingdom : Other : Bangor || GB - United Kingdom : Other : Belfast* || GB - United Kingdom : Other : Lisburn || GB - United Kingdom : Other : Londonderry || GB - United Kingdom : Other : Newry || GB - United Kingdom : Other : Reference job description || GB - United Kingdom : Scotland : Aberdeen* || GB - United Kingdom : Scotland : Dundee* || GB - United Kingdom : Scotland : Dunfermline || GB - United Kingdom : Scotland : Edinburgh* || GB - United Kingdom : Scotland : Glasgow* || GB - United Kingdom : Scotland : Inverness || GB - United Kingdom : Scotland : Montrose || GB - United Kingdom : Scotland : Perth || GB - United Kingdom : Scotland : Stirling || GB - United Kingdom : Wales : Bangor || GB - United Kingdom : Wales : Cardiff* || GB - United Kingdom : Wales : Newport || GB - United Kingdom : Wales : St Asaph || GB - United Kingdom : Wales : St Davids || GB - United Kingdom : Wales : Swansea* || GB - United Kingdom : Wales : Wrexham
Company: McCain Foods (G.B.) Ltd