Food Safety Specialist EMEA in Birmingham

Are you passionate about food safety, skilled at building trusted customer relationships, and motivated by helping global food manufacturers solve complex sanitation challenges? At Intralox, one of the world's leading innovators in conveyance solutions, we are looking for a Food Safety Specialist to join Commercial Food Sanitation (CFS), an Intralox company, and play a key role in improving food safety performance across the food manufacturing industry.

How You Make An Impact

Commercial Food Sanitation (CFS) works with some of the world's leading food processors, helping them achieve consistency in food safety, sanitation, and quality programs. Our team combines deep technical expertise with practical implementation support, delivering solutions that help customers reduce risk, improve performance, and strengthen food safety culture. Collaboration, continuous improvement, and customer value are at the heart of how we work. Due to continued growth, we are expanding our EMEA team.

What You Will Do

• Assess sanitation and food safety programs at customer facilities and provide practical recommendations that improve food safety performance.
• Train food processors and equipment manufacturers on hygienic design principles and sanitation best practices.
• Deliver customer workshops and training programs that help organizations strengthen sanitation practices and hygienic design understanding.
• Partner with Intralox account teams to support customer strategies, business development initiatives, and capital projects.
• Troubleshoot food safety and sanitation challenges to help customers identify risks and implement effective solutions.
• Build strong relationships with key decision-makers to drive long-term customer success and engagement.
• Support implementation of food safety recommendations to deliver measurable and sustainable improvements.
• Collaborate with global colleagues to align customer support activities and share expertise across regions.
• Contribute to the development of new training programs and customer-focused service offerings.
• Represent CFS at industry conferences, trade shows, and professional events to strengthen our presence within the food industry community.

What you bring

• Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Microbiology, Food Technology, or a related discipline.
• 8-10 years of experience in food safety, sanitation, quality, or food manufacturing environments.
• Strong understanding of sanitation concepts, HACCP, hygienic design, and food manufacturing principles.
• Excellent communication, training, and presentation skills with the ability to engage audiences at all organizational levels.
• Ability to work independently while successfully collaborating across international teams.
• Willingness and ability to travel extensively throughout Europe and internationally (up to 60%).
• Valid driver's license.
• Fluent English language skills and one additional (European) language.
• A customer-focused mindset with strong problem-solving capabilities.
• Curiosity, ownership, flexibility, and a passion for knowledge sharing.

Nice-to-have

• Experience within bakery and/or snack manufacturing environments.

Why Intralox?

A supportive, high-performing team that values collaboration. A workplace driven by ideas, innovation, and ownership. A financially strong, market-leading brand. Performance-based profit sharing. Alongside competitive local benefits, Intralox offers opportunities for international collaboration, professional development, and the chance to work with industry-leading customers on meaningful food safety challenges across the globe.

Building great things together

Intralox is a global leader in innovative conveyance solutions, with more than 3,000 employees across 20+ countries. For over 50 years, we've helped customers grow by solving complex challenges with smart, reliable solutions. We have built a culture grounded in honesty, fairness, and respect, where every idea is valued and great thinking can come from anywhere. Self-managed, curious individuals thrive here. We believe great results start with great people. That's why we bring together driven, collaborative teams who are passionate about making a real-world impact. You'll be empowered to take initiative, supported in your growth, and encouraged to continuously improve while working alongside colleagues who celebrate shared success.

To be considered for this role, you should ideally be based in the UK or within easy reach of a major European airport and have a valid work permit for your country of employment.