At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead food safety and quality initiatives in a dynamic food manufacturing environment.
- Company: Join a global leader in taste, nutrition, and sustainable ingredient solutions.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, matched pension, bonus, life assurance, and employee benefits.
- Other info: Visible leadership role with opportunities for professional growth and development.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on food safety and quality while driving sustainability.
- Qualifications: Degree in Science or Engineering with experience in food safety and quality management.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 60000 £ per year.
Are you a manager from a food manufacturing background with experience leading food safety and quality? Do you want to be part of a world-leading business that is making a difference in sustainable taste and nutrition? Kingston Barnes is recruiting for a Food Safety Quality Manager for our client in Portbury. Our client is the global leader in taste, nutrition, and ingredient solutions, partnering with food, beverage, and pharmaceutical manufacturers to create healthier, better-tasting, and more sustainable products enjoyed by consumers worldwide.
The Role: You will be responsible for leading the site’s food safety and quality agenda, partnering with the Plant Manager and site leadership team. You’ll work closely with operations, engineering, and supply chain to embed a strong quality culture, drive continuous improvement, and ensure they consistently meet internal, customer, and regulatory requirements. This is a visible leadership role.
Responsibilities include:
- Lead and improve food safety, quality, and HACCP systems across the site.
- Maintain high standards of GMP, hygiene, and factory compliance.
- Manage product quality controls, testing, and product release processes.
- Lead customer, regulatory, and third-party audits, ensuring actions are completed effectively.
- Investigate quality issues and customer complaints, implementing corrective actions where required.
- Produce regular quality reports and monitor performance trends.
- Support and develop quality awareness through training and coaching.
- Lead, motivate, and develop the Quality team.
- Work closely with the site leadership team to deliver business objectives and KPIs.
- Identify and escalate food safety or quality risks and support incident management.
- Ensure customers receive accurate and timely information.
About you:
- Degree qualified in Science or engineering ideally combined with a diploma in OHS/Environmental/Sustainability.
- Proven experience leading Food safety and Quality in a food manufacturing environment including HACCP, GMP, and hygiene programmes.
- Comfortable in managing customer relationships.
- Strong working knowledge of customer and third-party standards and regulatory expectations, including leading audits.
- A strong leader who can influence across functions and can build capability through coaching and training.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Skilled in developing standards and strategy, project and change management.
- Experience of interpreting and executing to international standards.
Benefits:
- £55,000 - £65,000
- Matched pension up to 10%
- Bonus
- Life assurance
- Holiday
- Employee Benefit platform
- EAP
If you are interested, please call Josh Hoyle or apply online. Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK to apply for this position.
Food Safety Quality Manager employer: Kingston Barnes Ltd
At Kingston Barnes Ltd, we pride ourselves on being an excellent employer, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters collaboration and innovation in Tewkesbury. Our commitment to employee growth is evident through mentorship opportunities for apprentices and a competitive benefits package, including 30 days of holiday and standby allowances, making it a rewarding place to advance your career in engineering maintenance.
