251 Food Processing jobs in the United Kingdom

• A Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Microbiology, Chemistry, or a related field.
• A minimum of 6 years of experience in industrial hygiene and sanitation, specifically within the food processing industry.
• In-depth knowledge of food safety standards and regulations (e.g., HACCP, GMP, BRC).
• Proven experience in managing and leading a sanitation team.
• Strong understanding of cleaning chemicals, sanitation equipment, and pest control methods.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Effective communication and training abilities.
• Proficiency in relevant software for record-keeping and analysis.

Food Safety Officer – Hotel Group

Location: Nationwide (must drive)

Salary: Up to £50,000 + Bonus

Join an ambitious hotel group with a passion for delivering great guest experiences and maintaining the highest standards of safety and quality across restaurants, bars, and kitchens.

In this key role, you’ll be at the forefront of ensuring compliance with all food safety legislation, proactively shaping and maintaining a culture of safety and hygiene across the hotels. You’ll conduct detailed inspections, support teams with expert coaching, and help drive a consistent and positive food safety culture nationwide.

Responsibilities

• Conduct regular and planned inspections of food handling, preparation, and storage areas to ensure compliance with our Food Safety Management System across all hotels.
• Support hotels with action plans, proactive advice, coaching, and training in line with audit findings and visit outcomes.
• Conduct supplier and vendor food safety audits to ensure compliance throughout the supply chain.
• Manage supply chain and operational allergy procedures, ensuring consistent allergen awareness and control.
• Develop, review, and implement the Food Safety Management System in line with current legislation and company developments.
• Promote a positive food safety culture by working collaboratively with hotel teams and key stakeholders.
• Provide targeted support to hotels with specific challenges in their food operations.

Requirements

• Qualified in Food Safety (minimum Level 4 or equivalent).
• Proven experience in a similar food safety, quality, or environmental health role — ideally within the hospitality sector.
• Strong knowledge of UK and international food safety legislation and best practices.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to engage at all levels of the business.
• Proactive, organised, and passionate about driving continuous improvement in food safety and hygiene standards.

Food Safety Consultant/Auditor - North West Region

Hybrid Working – A Mix of Client Visits and Remote Flexibility

A full, valid UK driving licence is essential for this role, as regular travel to client sites/locations is required.

About Food Alert & The Citation Group

With offices in London and Wellingborough, Food Alert is a leading food safety and health & safety consultancy working across the UK. We specialise in the hospitality sector supporting standout names like BrewDog, Dishoom, The Ivy Collection, and Citizen M, while also serving clients in retail, leisure, education, and healthcare.

We’re part of The Citation Group, one of the UK’s leading providers of Health & Safety, HR, Employment Law, and ISO services. With 110,000+ clients, 15 acquisitions in 3 years, and backing from KKR, Hg Capital, and HarbourVest, our growth is accelerating—and we want you to be part of it.

At Citation, we don’t just provide jobs; we build careers that inspire and empower. We’re a fast-paced, forward-thinking group that values action over politics, people over process, and passion in everything we do.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Conducting food safety and health & safety inspections and records audits at client premises.
• Producing compliance reports and practical recommendations for clients following each visit.
• Delivering risk assessments: including occupational, manual handling and PPE - particularly in hospitality environments.
• Supporting new client onboarding, including the implementation of our digital compliance platform, ALERT65.
• Providing tailored advice, consultancy and training to clients across a wide range of environments.
• Acting as Account Manager for a number of clients - typically individual or small group hospitality operators.
• Conducting investigations into allegations such as food poisoning, allergen incidents or foreign body contamination.
• Participating in our Advice Line rota, offering reactive expert guidance and managing investigations.
• Offering constructive feedback to internal teams, including IT (for platform improvements) and Operations, to support continuous improvement.
• Engaging in internal training (CPD) and team development.
• Managing communications efficiently—responding to client and internal queries in a timely and professional manner.

What We’re Looking For

• A solid background in food safety and health & safety auditing, ideally in hospitality. A minimum Level 4 Food Safety qualification is essential, with a BSc in Environmental Health or equivalent industry experience highly desirable.
• Experience auditing high-risk operations such as hotels with spa/swimming pool facilities would be a distinct advantage.
• Excellent time management, communication, and organisational skills - you’ll need to manage a busy and varied caseload.
• An adaptable and relationship-led approach; client experience is everything to us.

Who You Are

• Personable and customer-focused, with the ability to build long-term client relationships.
• Confident and constructive: someone who can influence change and drive high standards.
• Self-motivated with strong problem-solving and process-thinking capabilities.
• A true team player who contributes to a positive, proactive culture.

Why Join Us

• Tailored on-the-job training, mentoring and progression support.
• 25 days’ holiday + bank holidays + 3 ‘gift days’ over the festive period.
• Additional leave benefits (e.g. marriage week, new grandparent leave).
• Enhanced sick pay and life insurance.
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Healthcare cash plan including discounted gym membership.
• Referral bonuses, incentive vouchers and team socials—we know how to celebrate!

At Gather & Gather, we are known as one of the UK & Irelands most distinctive workplace catering experts, we are passionate about great food and great coffee and putting our employees and customers at the heart of everything that we do. We are currently recruiting for a HSE Manager/Food Safety Manager to work at a prestigious workplace site in London.

Location: London (occasional site visits to our central productions unit in Wimbledon)

Rate of Pay: £45,000 per annum

Working Pattern: Monday - Friday, 40 hours per week, 9:00am - 5:00pm

Key responsibilities:

• Delivery of H&S performance indicators
• Delivery of Food, health and safety & Allergen performance indicators
• Delivery of proactive internal auditing
• Delivery of reactive audits and interventions as required
• Operational engagement
• Coaching and support of all teams to create a culture of safety

Role Specific

• HACCP & Safety Systems: Maintain and implement bespoke HACCP systems in line with Compass Global CPU standards.
• Workplace Safety: Oversee and maintain the Compass Workplace Safety Management System, ensuring that operational safety standards are consistently met.
• Continuous Improvement: Work proactively with managers and key staff to develop and sustain a continuous improvement program for HSE management. This includes conducting regular audits, inspections, and spot checks, preparing risk assessments, and facilitating team training activities from CPU through to site delivery and customer consumption.
• To provide competent advice, guidance and support to operational teams to enable them to carry out their HSE responsibilities.
• To support the retention and mobilisation of new business in order to facilitate the implementation of effective HSE standards.
• Incident Investigation: Investigate food safety and safety incidents, ensuring that they are properly reported and that improvements are implemented.
• Liaison with Enforcement Bodies: Liaise with enforcement agencies when required.
• Expertise & Support: Provide technical expertise and support to ensure compliance with regulatory, company, and accreditation requirements related to Health & Safety, Food Safety, Quality, and the Environment across the various CPU sites.

Additional Responsibilities

• Collaboration with Management Teams: Work closely with site management teams to maintain and improve safe food systems and general safety standards.
• HSE Support: Assist the Sector Head of QHSE Manager in developing and supporting the CPU & delivery sites, particularly around new developments and enhancements.
• Cross-Department Collaboration: Collaborate with other health, safety, environmental, and quality professionals within the business to ensure a consistent and effective approach across the company in meeting HSE objectives.

What's in it for you?

Working with Gather and Gather has its perks! People are at the heart of everything we do, so we've developed a range of benefits to keep you happy.

• Personal Development and Training opportunities
• Life assurance scheme
• Pension scheme
• Holiday allowance
• Private medical eligibility
• Eye care
• A great wellbeing strategy – including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, salary finance
• Family friendly support
• Regular social events and communication with our leaders
• A holiday purchase scheme
• Volunteering days
• Professional subscriptions
• Recognition schemes and people awards
• Long service awards
• Access to some great high street discount vouchers

At Gather & Gather, we are known as one of the UK & Irelands most distinctive workplace catering experts, we are passionate about great food and great coffee and putting our employees and customers at the heart of everything that we do. We are currently recruiting for a HSE Manager/Food Safety Manager to work at a prestigious workplace site in London.

Location: London (occasional site visits to our central productions unit in Wimbledon)

Rate of Pay: £45,000 per annum

Working Pattern: Monday - Friday, 40 hours per week, 9:00am - 5:00pm

Key responsibilities:

• Delivery of H&S performance indicators
• Delivery of Food, health and safety & Allergen performance indicators
• Delivery of proactive internal auditing
• Delivery of reactive audits and interventions as required
• Operational engagement
• Coaching and support of all teams to create a culture of safety

Role Specific

• HACCP & Safety Systems: Maintain and implement bespoke HACCP systems in line with Compass Global CPU standards.
• Workplace Safety: Oversee and maintain the Compass Workplace Safety Management System, ensuring that operational safety standards are consistently met.
• Continuous Improvement: Work proactively with managers and key staff to develop and sustain a continuous improvement program for HSE management. This includes conducting regular audits, inspections, and spot checks, preparing risk assessments, and facilitating team training activities from CPU through to site delivery and customer consumption.
• To provide competent advice, guidance and support to operational teams to enable them to carry out their HSE responsibilities.
• To support the retention and mobilisation of new business in order to facilitate the implementation of effective HSE standards.
• Incident Investigation: Investigate food safety and safety incidents, ensuring that they are properly reported and that improvements are implemented.
• Liaison with Enforcement Bodies: Liaise with enforcement agencies when required.
• Expertise & Support: Provide technical expertise and support to ensure compliance with regulatory, company, and accreditation requirements related to Health & Safety, Food Safety, Quality, and the Environment across the various CPU sites.

Additional Responsibilities

• Collaboration with Management Teams: Work closely with site management teams to maintain and improve safe food systems and general safety standards.
• HSE Support: Assist the Sector Head of QHSE Manager in developing and supporting the CPU & delivery sites, particularly around new developments and enhancements.
• Cross-Department Collaboration: Collaborate with other health, safety, environmental, and quality professionals within the business to ensure a consistent and effective approach across the company in meeting HSE objectives.

What's in it for you?

Working with Gather and Gather has its perks! People are at the heart of everything we do, so we've developed a range of benefits to keep you happy.

• Personal Development and Training opportunities
• Life assurance scheme
• Pension scheme
• Holiday allowance
• Private medical eligibility
• Eye care
• A great wellbeing strategy – including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, salary finance
• Family friendly support
• Regular social events and communication with our leaders
• A holiday purchase scheme
• Volunteering days
• Professional subscriptions
• Recognition schemes and people awards
• Long service awards
• Access to some great high street discount vouchers

Food Safety Auditor

You will be working for a self-contained business unit that delivers comprehensive auditing services to UK retailers.

They are now looking to recruit an experienced Auditor to join and strengthen their existing dedicated technical team.

About the Food Safety Auditor job

Your role will be to work closely with senior site personnel to arrange technical audits that are carried out against various categories, on behalf of one of the UK’s major retailers.

You will conduct audits within the UK, Ireland and overseas which may include international (long haul) travel.

Key tasks

• Carry out both physical and remote audits against agreed standards, specific requirements and codes of practice.
• Produce timely and accurate audit reports in accordance with customer systems and requirements and submit within agreed business KPI’s.
• Keep up to date on all quality policies, procedures, work instructions and documentation issued by customers and the company.
• Keep abreast of technical development issues and legislative changes pertaining to the food sector.
• Support business initiatives including standards reviews, benchmarking activities and customer liaison when required.
• Operate to ensure that the highest customer service levels are met for the key client.

About You

• Strong technical/QA background and extensive supplier auditing experience within the food industry.
• Your product background will ideally cover multiple categories (i.e. bakery, dairy, meat, desserts, fresh produce, etc.) plus preferably knowledge of complex products i.e. ready meals.
• Lead Auditor qualification (or equivalent such as ISO 9000 Lead Assessor or Third-Party Auditing).
• Flexibility to travel and stay away from home each week (within the UK, Europe and worldwide).
• Full UK / EU driving license and valid passport.

More details

The Food Safety Auditor job (ref:8952) is paying £45,000 - £5,000 according to your experience plus a car allowance of approximately ,500.

The working hours are Monday to Friday; flexibility is required given the nature of the role and travel.

Alternate job titles - Food Supplier Auditor | Food Auditing Jobs | Technical Manager | Technical Food Auditor | Technical Audit Consultant | Supply Auditor | Lead Auditor | Food Safety Auditing Jobs

Food Safety, Quality & Allergens Specialist

Join our Global Food Safety & Quality Team at Campden BRI, who deliver 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 graduate in a relevant scientific subject or equivalent (e.g. experience).
• 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
• £34,000-£42,000 pa based on experience

Please note that we are currently unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role. Due to the rural location and limited public transport options, access to independent transport may be necessary to reliably attend the workplace.

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Food Safety Consultant/Auditor

Primary locations: London & North West - but strong candidates from other areas could also be considered.

Hybrid Working – A Mix of Client Visits and Remote Flexibility

About Food Alert & The Citation Group

With offices in London and Wellingborough, Food Alert is a leading food safety and health & safety consultancy working across the UK. We specialise in the hospitality sector supporting standout names like BrewDog, Dishoom, The Ivy Collection, and Citizen M, while also serving clients in retail, leisure, education, and healthcare.

We’re part of The Citation Group, one of the UK’s leading providers of Health & Safety, HR, Employment Law, and ISO services. With 110,000+ clients, 15 acquisitions in 3 years, and backing from KKR, Hg Capital, and HarbourVest, our growth is accelerating—and we want you to be part of it.

At Citation, we don’t just provide jobs; we build careers that inspire and empower. We’re a fast-paced, forward-thinking group that values action over politics, people over process, and passion in everything we do.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Conducting food safety and health & safety inspections and records audits at client premises.
• Producing compliance reports and practical recommendations for clients following each visit.
• Delivering risk assessments: including occupational, manual handling and PPE - particularly in hospitality environments.
• Supporting new client onboarding, including the implementation of our digital compliance platform, ALERT65.
• Providing tailored advice, consultancy and training to clients across a wide range of environments.
• Acting as Account Manager for a number of clients - typically individual or small group hospitality operators.
• Conducting investigations into allegations such as food poisoning, allergen incidents or foreign body contamination.
• Participating in our Advice Line rota, offering reactive expert guidance and managing investigations.
• Offering constructive feedback to internal teams, including IT (for platform improvements) and Operations, to support continuous improvement.
• Engaging in internal training (CPD) and team development.
• Managing communications efficiently—responding to client and internal queries in a timely and professional manner.

What We’re Looking For

• A solid background in food safety and health & safety auditing, ideally in hospitality. A minimum Level 4 Food Safety qualification is essential, with a BSc in Environmental Health or equivalent industry experience highly desirable.
• Experience auditing high-risk operations such as hotels with spa/swimming pool facilities would be a distinct advantage.
• Excellent time management, communication, and organisational skills - you’ll need to manage a busy and varied caseload.
• An adaptable and relationship-led approach; client experience is everything to us.
• Driving Licence and car needed as travelling to clients regularly

Who You Are

• Personable and customer-focused, with the ability to build long-term client relationships.
• Confident and constructive: someone who can influence change and drive high standards.
• Self-motivated with strong problem-solving and process-thinking capabilities.
• A true team player who contributes to a positive, proactive culture.

Why Join Us

• Tailored on-the-job training, mentoring and progression support.
• 25 days’ holiday + bank holidays + 3 ‘gift days’ over the festive period.
• Additional leave benefits (e.g. marriage week, new grandparent leave).
• Enhanced sick pay and life insurance.
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Healthcare cash plan including discounted gym membership.
• Referral bonuses, incentive vouchers and team socials—we know how to celebrate!