Compliance Manager - Engineering in Grimsby

Ensuring engineering activities meet food safety, legal, and audit standards while keeping the site compliant and inspection-ready.

The Engineering Compliance Manager ensures that all engineering plants, equipment, and systems across the group operate in full alignment with UK health and safety legislation, statutory inspection requirements, and recognized engineering standards. This role safeguards the business by making sure engineering risks are controlled, legal duties are met, and compliance is embedded into everyday engineering practices within a demanding food manufacturing environment. As the group’s authority for engineering compliance, the role provides support to site senior leadership teams, ensuring assets are safe, compliant, and effectively managed.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Maintain full compliance with key UK engineering legislation, including PUWER, LOLER, PSSR, DSEAR, EAWR, industrial steam boilers standards, and other relevant regulations.
• Own the statutory inspection programme, ensuring Written Schemes of Examination, registers, and certifications are up to date and robust.
• Ensure statutory defects and non‑conformances are risk assessed, prioritised, tracked, and closed out within required timescales.
• Conduct internal engineering compliance audits and produce clear, accurate reports that document findings, assess performance, outline risks, and define structured action plans for improvement.
• Support machinery safety, guarding improvements, and engineering modifications in line with legal and industry best‑practice standards.
• Work closely with competent contractors, inspection bodies, and internal teams to maintain high standards of engineering integrity.
• Act as the Group subject matter expert for engineering statutory requirements, supporting Engineering, Operations, H&S.

The Ideal Candidate

• HNC in Mechanical, Electrical, or a related engineering discipline—or equivalent proven experience.
• Solid understanding of UK engineering health and safety legislation and its practical application.
• Proven experience managing statutory compliance in an industrial or food manufacturing environment.
• NEBOSH General Certificate or IOSH Managing Safely.
• Additional training in PUWER, LOLER, and PSSR inspections including industrial steam boilers.

Why Sofina Foods?

At Sofina Foods, you’ll step into a high‑impact role where your voice matters. You’ll work closely with a collaborative, forward‑thinking leadership team and play a key role in shaping the future of the site. With a strong reputation in the market, a commitment to continuous improvement and a focus on people and quality, Sofina offers a career, not just a job. Join a business that’s big enough to offer opportunity and support, but agile enough for your contribution to truly count.

Company Information

With a team of over 13,000 people across 40 sites in Canada and Europe, we’re passionate about delivering quality meats and seafood products to consumers around the world. Join a company where innovation, sustainability, and customer satisfaction drive everything we do. At Sofina, you’ll grow your skills, make a real impact, and work with responsibly sourced products from more than 50 protein sources across five continents. Our vision is bold: to be the most successful food company in the world. If you’re looking for a rewarding career in the food industry, there’s a place for you at Sofina Foods.

Equal Opportunities

Sofina Foods is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences – regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

Location: Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire

Hours of Work: Full‑time

Company: Sofina Foods