Food Safety Technologist in Selby

Why Greencore? Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we’re one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better. As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we’re proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn. Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop. Here at Selby we employ a team of over 750 colleagues. A site steeped in history, we are the UK’s number one manufacturer of customer private label cooking sauces and pickles. We have been serving our customers out of our Selby site since 1914. We produce more than 160 million units per year across 600 different product lines for customers such as Morrisons, Tesco & Asda.

What you’ll be doing: As 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. You will:

• 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, share best practice and 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.
• 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 for: We’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, competitive matched pension contributions, life insurance up to 4x salary, company shares save scheme, exclusive Greencore employee discount platform, access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform, enhanced parental leave and menopause policies.

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.