Food Safety Manager

Food Safety Manager (Monday – Friday)

About Hughes Group

With over 65 years of experience, Hughes Group is a trusted name in fresh mushrooms and innovative plant-based products across the UK. We work in close partnership with leading retailers and food service providers and are known for our quality, reliability, and customer-first approach.

While we’re proud of our heritage, our focus is firmly on the future. As a growing FMCG business, we’re investing in innovation, sustainability, and—most importantly—our people.

Hours: Monday – Friday / 40 hours per week

Salary: Competitive, dependant on relevant experience

Reports to: Technical Manager

Location: Dungannon

The Role

As a newly created role, the Food Safety Manager will play a pivotal part in shaping and enhancing the site's food safety and quality strategy. Providing strategic and operational leadership across the Technical, Quality and Food Safety functions, the successful candidate will ensure the highest standards of product safety, quality and regulatory compliance are maintained. The role will lead the development and continuous improvement of the site's HACCP-based Quality Management System, ensuring compliance with BRCGS standards, customer requirements and relevant legislation, while fostering a culture of food safety, quality excellence and continuous improvement across the business.

Key Responsibilities

· Lead food safety and quality across the factory, ensuring site-wide compliance with relevant standards and requirements.

· Own and maintain the site HACCP and Quality Management System.

· Ensure compliance with BRCGS, legislation and customer requirements.

· Promote high standards of food safety, hygiene, GMP and housekeeping.

· Identify and manage food safety and quality risks across the site.

· Lead investigations into non-conformances, incidents and complaints.

· Analyse technical data and drive preventative actions.

· Lead, coach and develop a team.

· Manage customer, regulatory and certification audits.

· Drive continuous improvement across quality and food safety.

· Lead the site response to food safety incidents.

Essential Criteria

· Experience in a similar Food Safety, Quality or Technical management role.

· Strong working knowledge of HACCP, BRCGS and Food Hygiene.

· Experience in supporting and actively participating in customer and retailer audits

· Experience investigating non-conformances, customer complaints and food safety incidents.

· Experience of supervising a team

Desirable Criteria

· Third Level Qualification in a Food Science, Quality or related discipline

· Level 4 HACCP or equivalent HACCP qualification.

· Internal Auditor Training

· Experience managing or supporting continuous improvement projects relating to food safety and quality.

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