Compliance & Safety Engineer

Job description

Job title: Compliance & Safety Engineer Reporting to: Process, Compliance & Safety Engineering Manager Location: Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk (Hybrid working opportunities available) Hours: 40 hours per week: The Opportunity: You will be a Compliance and Safety Engineer supporting an Upper Tier COMAH establishment, responsible for the design, integration, and effectiveness of the Safety Management System (SMS) and for providing independent assurance that process safety and environmental control systems operate as intended across the site. Reporting to the Process, Compliance and Safety Engineering Manager, the role is accountable for ensuring that what the site says it does is actually happening in practice, and that arrangements described in the COMAH Safety Report, Environmental Permit, and internal standards are implemented, integrated, and effective across all departments. This is a governance and assurance role, grounded in process and engineering understanding, with a strong focus on system design, verification, and cross‑functional compliance, rather than day‑to‑day operational ownership. What it’s like to work here We’ve been making the world taste better since 1886 and sell o...