Job Description

Do you have a passion for supporting people and leading teams to deliver operational excellence in a field-based environment? Would you value the opportunity to shape, support, and coordinate a team of Meat Hygiene Inspectors across Scotland? If so, we’d love to hear from you.

Food Standards Scotland’s Operations Division is seeking a Field Operations Coordinator to support the delivery of Official Controls in meat premises across Central and South West Scotland. This is one of two Field Operations Coordinator roles, working collaboratively to ensure consistent, high‑quality regulatory services across the region.

As a key member of the Field Operations team, you will be responsible for coordinating the deployment of Meat Hygiene Inspectors across your area, as well as providing business and administrative support to the Operations Manager. Working closely with the area management team — including the Operations Manager, fellow Field Operations Coordinator, and Veterinary Advisor — you will play a central role in staff scheduling, operational planning, and day‑to‑day support to ensure effective service delivery.

This is an excellent opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to public health outcomes while supporting and leading teams in a challenging and rewarding operational environment.

Responsibilities:

• Provide essential support to the operational teams within the field, enabling FSS to deliver efficiency and effectiveness of Official Controls and Export Certification within a defined region and driving business compliance and operational performance in accordance with the Field Operations Business Plan and KPI framework.
• Coordinate Health and Safety requirements as laid out in the FSS Health and Safety Manual system, ensuring important documentation such as Inspection Point Risk Assessments, Safe Systems of Works and other protocols are kept up to date and cascaded to all staff.
• Lead and manage staff within your span of control to improve culture and employee engagement through positive leadership and effective management of operational changes.
• Coordinate operations relating to staff scheduling, planning and support across approved meat establishments. The role will combine elements of coordination of activities directly related to human resources including coordination of new staff inductions, learning and development for the field staff and chairing regular plant team meetings.
• Maintain your technical competency by regular review of policy, guidance and technical instructions coupled to occasional working within the inspection team for observation and monitoring purposes.

Success profileSuccess profiles are specific to each job and they include the mix of skills, experience and behaviours candidates will be assessed on. The Success Profile will include the Professional / Technical skills, Experience and Behaviours.
Technical / Professional Skills:

• Operational Leadership and Management – Working Level
• Connections and communications – Working Level

You can find out more about the skills required, here: Core ODP Skills - Operational Delivery Profession Experience:

• Previous experience of coordinating staff and resources within a frontline, field‑based regulatory environment, with a focus on continuous improvement and operational effectiveness.

Behaviours:

• Working together – Level 3
• Managing a Quality Service - Level 3

Find out more about Success Profiles How to applyApply online, providing a CV and Supporting Statement (of no more than 1000 words) which provides evidence of how you meet the skills, experience and behaviours listed in the Success Profile above.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools can be used to support your application, but all statements and examples provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, and presented as your own) applications will be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.Please see our candidate guidance for more information on acceptable and unacceptable uses of AI in recruitment. If invited for further assessment, this will consist of an MS Teams interview and presentation Assessments are scheduled for w/c 8 June 2026 however this may be subject to change.

Recruitment Principles
As a government organisation, we adhere to the Civil Service Commission Recruitment Principles and we investigate any complaints received in relation to recruitment cases. About us

Food Standards Scotland (FSS) was established on 1 April 2015 as the new public sector food body for Scotland. To protect the health and wellbeing of consumers we have three objectives as set under the Food (Scotland) Act 2015.

• To protect the public from risks to health which may arise in connection with the consumption of food
• To improve the extent to which members of the public have diets which are conducive to good health
• To protect the other interests of consumers in relation to food

We have a unique role in Scottish government, working independently of Ministers and industry, to provide advice which is impartial, and based on robust science and data.

Our remit covers all aspects of the food chain which can impact on public health – aiming to protect consumers from food safety risks and promote healthy eating.

We offer a supportive and inclusive working environment along with a wide range of employee benefits.

Find out more about FSS at Job vacancies - Careers | Food Standards Scotland | Food Standards Scotland

As part of the UK Civil Service, we uphold the Civil Service Nationality Rules

Working pattern

Our standard hours are 35 hours per week. Candidates must be willing to working occasional weekends and participate in an on-call rota when requested in response to business needs.

This is a field based role working from home with governance of FSS field teams working in primary meat production premises across the central belt and south west of Scotland. Occasional travel to our main office in Aberdeen.

Security checksSuccessful candidates must complete the Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), before they can be appointed. BPSS is comprised of four main pre-employment checks – Identity, Right to work, Employment History and a Criminal Record check (unspent convictions).You can find out more about BPSS on the UK Government website, and read about the Government Vetting Charter, or about all the different levels of security checks in our Candidate Guide Internal candidates may need to gain higher security clearance than they currently hold if successful in their application. Equality statement We are committed to equality and inclusion and we aim to recruit a diverse workforce that reflects the population of our nation.  Find out more about our commitment to diversity and how we offer and support recruitment adjustments for anyone who needs them. Further information Find out more about our organisation, what we offer staff members and how to apply on our Careers Website Read our Candidate Guide for further information on our recruitment and application processes.