Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.

Target Resume Now

About the Role

This role is ideal for a technically skilled professional looking to deepen their expertise in food safety and quality within a fast-paced, collaborative environment. You will be responsible for driving the safety, quality, and legality of food products throughout the McDonald’s system - from our suppliers to our restaurants. You will act as the quality assurance lead for key supplier categories, manage food safety within restaurants, and ensure compliance with nutrition legislation.

Responsibilities

Act as the lead QFS contact for assigned supplier categories, owning product and restaurant supplier performance and continuous improvement.
Manage supplier performance activities through KPI reviews, action plans and factory visits.
Deliver against defined KPIs, escalation risk as required.
Champion food safety and quality culture across suppliers, restaurants and internal teams, embedding accountability, learning and continuous improvement.
Use data, insights and trend analysis to proactively identify risks, prioritise actions and unlock opportunities for improvement.
Monitor complaints, emerging risk, identify trends and support incident management and crisis activity, providing technical input and investigation support.
Manage restaurant engagement plans for categories to drive compliance and lead improvements in allergen and microbiological programs.
Maintain and continuously improve the Restaurant food safety management system, including HACCP, the Food Safety Manual, cleaning procedures and allergen risk assessment.
Ensure compliance with nutrition and labelling legislation, alignment with global and local guardrails, and drive continuous improvement in nutrition standards.
Support local and global cross-category product and restaurant improvement initiatives offering technical expertise in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Collaborate with global leadership to ensure consistency in standards and alignment with market-specific objectives and effective implementation of global programs.
Support the food menu team with product launches, ingredient approvals and product set‑up.
Apply QFS and Nutrition governance within the Stage & Gate process.
Contribute to supply chain initiatives, including cost optimisation, sustainability and digitalisation projects.
Participate in the on-call weekend rota to ensure continuity of operations during weekends and holidays.

Requirements

Degree (or equivalent) in Food Science or equivalent experience
Technical understanding of food products, their manufacture and distribution.
Hold a minimum of level 3 HACCP and lead auditor training.
A good commercial acumen and numeracy skills.
Strong verbal, written and presentation communication skills.
Proficient computer use (including Microsoft PowerPoint, Office and Excel).
Excellent data analysis and presentation skills.
Capable of analysing commercial metrics & insights to provide data led decisions.
Experience with the use of quality and product specification systems.
Excellent time management and prioritisation skills.
A positive demeanor with strong focus on culture of continuous improvement.
A curious mindset, confident, independent and a logical problem solver.
Must have a valid driers license, ability to maintain a valid and current passport and could domestically and internationally travel, depending on business needs.

Skills

Food Science
Food Safety
Quality Assurance
Nutrition Legislation
HACCP
Lead Auditor Training
Commercial Acumen
Numeracy
Verbal Communication
Written Communication
Presentation Skills
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Excel
Data Analysis
Product Specification Systems
Time Management
Prioritisation
Continuous Improvement
Problem Solving

Location

Work Type

Full-time

Education Level

Degree

About the Company

McDonalds has run its business in the UK since 1974 and currently operates over 1500 restaurants across the UK and Ireland, serving almost four million customers each day.
McDonalds is one of the UKs largest private sector employers, employing over 170,000 people.
Our Global vision is to build a better McDonalds and in the UK and Ireland we are working hard to be the UK & Irelands best-loved restaurant company.
McDonalds is defined by its culture. Our culture shapes and informs everything we think and everything we do.
Our values drive our culture and shape our beliefs, our priorities and our actions.
Serve: We put our customers and our people first
Inclusion: We open our doors to everyone
Integrity: We do the right thing
Community: We are good neighbours
Family: We get better together
People are at the heart of everything we do, and they make the McDonalds experience.
We embrace diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture that means people can be their best authentic self in our restaurants and offices, which helps us to better serve our customers.
We have a strong heritage of diversity and representation within our communities, which we are proud of.
The diversity of our people, customers, Franchisees and suppliers gives us strength.
We do not tolerate inequality, injustice or discrimination of any kind.
We also recognise our responsibility as a large employer to continue being active in our communities, helping to develop skills and drive aspirations that will help people to be more aware of the world of work and more successful within it, whether with McDonalds or elsewhere.

Equal Opportunity

We do not tolerate inequality, injustice or discrimination of any kind.