Overview
Address: Hamilton, Scotland, GB, ML3 0DW
Location: Lightbody of Hamilton
Shift: Monday to Friday
Salary: Competitive + Benefits
We have an exciting opportunity for a Compliance Improvement Lead to join our site team, supporting the delivery of food safety and quality standards across our business.
135 years of craft baking skills lie behind the quality of the special branded cakes, sweet snacks and slices we produce in Hamilton and 55 million products are produced each year. Lightbody’s is the UK’s largest supplier of celebration cakes to UK retailers, with Disney, Mars, Universal and Thorntons all within the portfolio of branded cakes made under licence. We also make a variety of supermarkets’ well-loved own-label cakes and in-store bakery bites.
This role plays a key part in ensuring our operations remain compliant with legal requirements, internal standards, and customer expectations. Working closely with the Regional Compliance Lead and site teams, you will help drive risk reduction, strengthen assurance processes, and support continuous improvement across the business.
This is a great opportunity for someone looking to further develop their career in food safety compliance, with scope to broaden into wider compliance areas over time.
What you’ll actually do
You will support the day to day management and improvement of food safety compliance across site, ensuring systems, processes, and standards are consistently applied and effective.
You will monitor and verify the Food Safety and Quality Management System, ensuring documentation is accurate, up to date, and fit for purpose. You will support the development of procedures, guidance, and training materials, helping teams understand and apply food safety standards in practice.
You will play a key role in HACCP, TACCP, VACCP, and allergen management, ensuring reviews are completed, risks are assessed, and actions are tracked through to completion. You will also support change management processes, ensuring any changes to products, processes, or equipment are fully assessed from a food safety perspective.
You will support internal and external audit activity, helping prepare for audits, track actions, and ensure findings are closed out effectively. Alongside this, you will monitor KPIs, analyse trends, and highlight risks and opportunities to drive continuous improvement.
You will also support investigations into incidents, non conformances, and complaints, ensuring root causes are identified and corrective actions are implemented and effective.
This is a collaborative role where you will work closely with site teams to embed standards, provide practical guidance, and promote a strong food safety culture across the business.
To be successful in this role, you will be detail oriented, proactive, and confident working across teams, with the ability to translate food safety requirements into clear, practical actions.
Ideally, this is you
Essential
• Food Science degree or equivalent food manufacturing experience
• Strong food safety compliance experience within manufacturing, ideally bakery or food production
• Experience working with BRCGS and or retailer standards
• Food Safety Level 3 and HACCP Level 3 qualified
• Internal auditor experience
• Good understanding of food safety legislation, standards, and customer requirements
• Strong organisational and coordination skills with excellent attention to detail
• Confident communicator with the ability to influence at all levels
• Proficient in Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint
• Full UK driving licence
Desirable
• Lead auditor training or experience
• TACCP and VACCP knowledge
• Allergen management experience
• Experience with KPI reporting and trend analysis
• Experience developing food safety procedures or documentation
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a business that is committed to high standards, continuous improvement, and developing its people.
You will benefit from a varied and impactful role across multiple areas of food safety compliance, exposure to audits and cross functional working, and opportunities to develop into wider compliance areas. You will be part of a supportive and collaborative working environment with ongoing training and development.
What’s in it for you?
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave to allow quality time with your new arrival!
• Enhanced Pension Scheme for our employees
• Death in Service Benefit
• Free Employee Assistance Programme (open to colleagues and their families)
• Retail discounts accessible via our Benefits Hub platform!
• Company shop available at sites (heavily discounted, yummy products!)
• Refer a Friend Scheme (up to £300 per referral – t&cs dependent)
• Employee Recognition Awards· Extensive Learning & Development opportunities (including opportunities for sponsored professional memberships and our own in-house development course!)
• An opportunity to be part of a fantastic, growing organisation. Head over to our LinkedIn page to find out more!
Our vision is to be the leading specialty bakery group in the UK and we want the best people in place to achieve this. Our continued success is built entirely on the talented people who work here, so employee development is important to us because everyone is a valued member of the team, and we want every individual to have the skills and capabilities to achieve both your own personal goals and our business goals. We want good people to join our company, to help our company continue to go from strength to strength. If this sounds like you, please get in contact to learn more!