Senior Animal Welfare Officer

**Senior Animal Welfare Officer**

**Sandycroft, Deeside**

**Monday-Friday, 0900-1700**

When you join 2 Sisters, you will become part of the UK’s largest food manufacturer with ambitious plans and as such you can look forward to working with a whole bunch of talented colleagues with a shared passion for quality, service and most importantly food.

At the heart of this, our UK Poultry division produces a third of all poultry eaten in the UK and represents more than half of 2 Sisters’ business by sales. The division employs over 9,000 people working in a chilled environment to process poultry products which are then marketed to UK consumers via major retailers.

**ABOUT THE ROLE**:
**As a Senior Animal Welfare Officer, you would be leading a team of Animal Welfare Officers (AWOs) in the development, implementation, and monitoring of animal welfare policies, as well as ensuring that all customer and legislative standards are achieved. You can expect the role to involve**:

- Working with the AWOs to assist the site in developing working practices and procedures and ensuring compliance with current legislation.
- To ensure that the slaughterhouse personnel carry out any remedial actions necessary to ensure compliance with the rules laid down in the regulations.
- Ensure that the site meets its WATOK responsibilities and will be fully engaged with the company’s other slaughter sites to drive standards forward.
- Fully support and train AWO’s to allow them to deliver good animal welfare.
- Continually holding certificates of competence for all operations taking place in the slaughterhouse for which they are responsible.
- Developing and delivering training courses for personnel involved in killing and related operations.
- Delivering certificates of competence attesting the passing of an independent final examination consisting of:

- The handling and care of animals before they are restrained.
- The restraint of animals for the purpose of stunning or killing.
- The stunning of animals.
- The assessment of effective stunning.
- The shackling or hoisting of live animals.
- The bleeding of live animals.
- The slaughtering in accordance with religious slaughter requirements, as applicable.
- Keep a record of actions taken to improve animal welfare in the slaughterhouse.
- Responsible for the assessment of personnel carrying out operations.
- Daily, Weekly, Monthly & Quarterly reporting on Welfare Issues.
- Involvement in sites audits both Internal & External - E.G. BRC, Customer Welfare COP’s, RTA, FSA

**ABOUT YOU**:
If you’re fanatical about food and have the can-do spirit that’s created our success, Bring those qualities, with the following and you will have the recipe for success:

- L3 Food Hygiene/Food Related Qualification or higher.
- L3 HACCP or higher.
- IOSH Managing Safety.
- L4 Animal Care/Welfare qualification.
- L3 Training Skills and Practices.
- L3 Award in Assessing Competence in the Work Environment.
- L4 Award in Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice
- Poultry Welfare Officer - Processing training.
- Excellent track record of working in a team; building capability, addressing any issues effectively and in compliance with legislative and company policies & procedures.
- Ability to clearly communicate with all departments, including the site OV’s, agriculture, transport, catching teams and farmers as well as Group Leaders, other customers and auditing bodies.
- Self-motivated and highly resilient.
- Experience of working in poultry slaughterhouses or other abattoir environments ideally.
- A high level of flexibility is required and ability to problem solve in a fast-paced environment with sometimes conflicting needs & wants.

**WHO ARE WE AND WHAT IS IN IT FOR YOU?**

2 Sisters Food Group is one of the UK’s biggest food manufacturers providing great tasting products to the nation, from chicken to cookies and pizza to pies

With 18 sites in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. We employ over 13,500 staff, all of whom have the opportunity to progress as we focus on promoting from within and you can be part of that too.

Knowing that our business is only as good as the people we employ, we ensure that we invest in people like you to enhance skills and professional development.

We want to make YOU the future of our business

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person