Compliance Officer

Healeys Cornish Cyder Farm is an iconic, family run visitor attraction and home to our very own Rattler Cyder! Since the company was founded in 1980, Healeys Cyder has grown enormously, boasting more than 130,000 visitors per year and array of awards for our cyders & spirits. With an impressive schedule of events, alongside a multi-million-pound investment across a two-phase extension project, driving an exceptional visitor experience on-site has never been more important.

A fantastic opportunity is available to join our busy Technical Team as a Compliance Officer. To become a permanent part of an iconic Cornish business, and to make your mark in this exciting role please continue reading.

As a compliance officer you will play an important role within the business ensuring that the company’s activities and policies comply with the legal requirements and protocols. You will be expected to carry our regular procedures and policy reviews, reviewing risk assessment, HACCP, develop and maintain QMS program, ensuring controls are in place to ensure quality and safety of both company and its costumers.

On a day-to-day basis, your success will look like:

• To ensure food safety, integrity and legal standards are always met
• To ensure all documentation is reviewed, updated, and maintained in line with requirements
• Keep up to date with, and understand, relevant laws and regulations, ensuring compliance monitoring with law, regulations and internal policies are always in place.
• Implementing, embedding, and maintaining a management system which enables sustainability through standardisation.
• Proactively reviewing policies, procedures, and risk assessments to continuously improve ways of working.
• Monitoring compliance against policies, procedures, and specifications, identifying situations where the business operates outside these parameters and making recommendations to bring any non-conformance back inline.
• Providing technical training and upskilling to staff when new policies, procedures and risk assessments are released.
• Carrying out internal audits and spot checks to check compliance against policies, procedures, and risk assessments, highlighting areas of opportunity.
• To perform risk assessments to understand risk level, significance, and scope
• To support the review of HACCP plan and review when necessary
• Ability to work independently, exercising good initiative and judgment.
• Ensuring compliance with environmental legislation
• To conduct QMS audits and record any finding ensuring any compliance issues are escalated when necessary.
• To be open to completing tasks which may fall outside of your role or remit with a positive, sleeves rolled up mentality.

While personality and fit are important to us, preference will be given to applicants who can showcase the following qualifications and skills:

• 3-5 years’ experience in a similar role within a manufacturing/ production environment.
• L3 HACCP
• Food science relevant degree
• Experience in developing a QMS Program
• Internal Auditing
• HACCP Management
• Environmental Compliance
• Working collaboratively with others to achieve common goals.
• Having the ability to constructively challenge others and influencing their decision making.
• Remaining resilient when you identify areas of non-conformance.
• Using various models of root cause analysis to identify areas for improvement.
• Maintain product quality and consistency through spot checks and production.

Hours: 8:30am – 5:00pm Monday to Friday

Salary - £35,000.00 - £40,000.00

Joining the #RattlerCru is not just about what you can bring to the business. We have a range of great benefits that we hope you will make full use of:

• Subsidised Private Healthcare with Bupa (for permanent staff)
• 50% discount on products
• 50% discount on all food and drink in the restaurant
• Free entry for friends and family, with discounted food and drink
• Free festival tickets
• Cycle to Work Scheme (after probation pass)
• Chill out after your shift with a £1 pint!
• Monthly employee recognition for #FeelGoodFriday
• Monthly breakfast club
• We look forward to hearing from you!

The Healeys Recruitment Team