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Are you ready to pop the top on an exciting career opportunity? Join our team as a multi-site Compliance Manager, where your strong leadership and deep quality and food safety understanding will ensure our soft drinks are always a cut above the rest. This is not just any compliance role—it's a chance to shake things up and set the standard for excellence across 3 of our key production sites in the UK.

Site Compliance Manager

Refresco UK - Bondgate, Pontefract

What’s in it for you?

10% Annual bonus and pay review
Life assurance (X3 annual salary)
27 days plus bank holidays holiday allowance
Purchase extra holiday scheme
Access to employee benefits platform – Cheers which includes extra optional benefits   

About The Role
As a compliance Manager, you'll be the fizz in our compliance and auditing strategy, working closely with the Head of Technical to craft and implement a robust strategy.

With a zero-loss mindset and a disciplined approach you will ensures your production sites meet BRCGS, customer standards, and all internal quality management systems. You'll be the secret ingredient in our recipe for success, infusing your passion for quality and food safety into every aspect of our operations.

Leadership in Quality & Compliance:

Serve as the primary contact for quality, legal, and food safety compliance across three production sites. Lead and mentor teams to meet and exceed standards Technical Support & Audit Management:

Provide technical guidance, lead audits (e.g., BRCGS), and implement corrective actions from GAP analyses. Internal Audits & Training:

Manage internal audits, drive continuous improvement, and deliver training programs on food safety and quality. Issue Resolution & Reporting:

Investigate quality issues, implement corrective actions, and provide trend analysis to improve performance. HACCP & Food Safety:

Lead the HACCP team and ensure microbiological safety in all products. QMS & Policy Development:

Develop and implement policies to meet compliance standards. Collaboration:

Foster strong relationships with internal teams, external stakeholders, and regulatory bodies  

About You
Ultimately, we encourage everyone to role model our core values of agility, responsibility, passion, excellence, and entrepreneurship as we believe these are what has made Refresco successful so far. For this role we are seeking the ideal candidate to match the following:

Recognised Level 4 HACCP & Food Safety qualifications that have been renewed adequately throughout career
Recognised Level 4 TACCP & VACCP (Food defence) qualifications that have been renewed adequately throughout career
Degree in a science subject, preferably food, microbiology, chemistry
Recognised Lead auditor qualification that has been renewed adequately throughout career
Vast experience in a compliance Managers role.
Significant experience working with the BRCGS standard.
Demonstratable experience of building leading and maintaining quality compliance strategies.
Demonstrable experience at influencing and making quick but responsible decisions
Must be a clear ‘complete finisher’ with a track record of maintaining high standards across multiple production sites.  

About Refresco:
Refresco is the global independent beverage solutions provider for Global, National and Emerging brands, and retailers with production in Europe, North America, and Australia. Refresco offers an extensive range of product and packaging combinations from juices to carbonated soft drinks and mineral waters in carton, PET, Aseptic PET, cans, and glass. Refresco continuously searches for new and alternative ways to improve the quality of its products and packaging combinations in line with consumer and customer demand, environmental responsibilities, and market demand.

Refresco is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and has more than 13,500 employees. .

Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We’re a global business and currently produce 12 billion litres of soft drinks from 64 manufacturing plants in 12 countries and we’re only just getting started.

​​​​​​​We’re the proud owners of six drinks manufacturing sites within the UK. Our UK business provides a great place to work for over 1,800 employees, who produce private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers.

Whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards. Our products get where they need to be when they need to get there to meet the needs of our high-profile customers.

Refresco believes that equal opportunity for all is fundamental to our company's values and all our applicants can expect fairness and transparency in our recruitment process