Safety, Quality

***£34,000-£42,000 pa dependent on experience**
***+ Employee benefits**:
***Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire**:
**Consulting Technology**:
Supporting food manufacturers and retailers with product innovation including: rheology, new product development, value optimisation, instructional development, pilot plant, quality and food safety manufacturing, thermal processing, new technologies, and regulatory affairs.

**Global Food Safety & Quality Team**:

- Join our expert team at Campden BRI, delivering high-impact consultancy services to clients across the food industry. This role blends technical excellence with client-facing delivery, offering a dynamic mix of research, training, and strategic support.

**Position**:

- Planning and execution of technical delivery as guided by your line manager or others within the team, ability to plan and manage your own time to meet deadlines. This will be on a blend of contract, training and research projects. All work is undertaken in line with the requirements of our business management system.- Responding to direct technical enquiries with support as appropriate using information retrieved from relevant sources. This will include provision of consultancy and the performing of site audits/pre-audits. The frequency and complexity of which will build with time and experience.
- Present training materials as the lead tutor or support tutor, as relevant, on both scheduled and client specific courses.
- Design and develop training course materials.
- Interpretation of results and preparation of client reports to agreed standards.
- Through implementation of business development strategies, stimulate areas of contract, training, and research in line with the focus area of the job.
- Preparing project proposals/tenders for clients to a level agreed with the line manager.
- Performing internal audits of the FMT Department and site as required.

**Requirements**:

- A technical knowledge of the food industry (science and technology) across multiple food sectors. Proven experience in a technical or quality management role within food manufacturing or in food legislation enforcement.
- Practical experience of at least one industrial food safety management standard would be an advantage.
- Formal qualification in HACCP, Level 4 would be expected to fulfil the job requirements.
- At least 3 years’ experience of food allergy management and its role in the wider context of food productions ( such as alignment with HACCP )
- An understanding of, or experience in, the theory and practice of allergen analysis, specifically using ELISA and DNA-based methods. A knowledge of mass spectrometry techniques would be an advantage.
- An understanding of scientific regulatory affairs as it relates to food allergens within the UK/EU regulatory paradigms would be an advantage.
- Practical experience and trained in auditing.
- Training experience at least Train the Trainer level would be expected to fulfil the job requirements.
- Good verbal and broader communication skills to support business development, training and consultancy offerings.
- Effective project and time management skills assuring effective delivery and compliance with business practices.
- Full UK/EU driving licence.

**Benefits**:

- Hybrid working
- Reward platform with employee discounts and rewards
- 25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays
- Buy and sell holiday scheme
- A generous work save pension scheme, with employee contributions matched by the company up to 10%
- Culture focus around work/life balance (early finish Fridays)
- Subsidised onsite restaurant