Manufacturing & Operations
Plant Production
We’re looking for a proactive and people focused Training Coordinator to lead the design, delivery, and continuous improvement of all operations and soft skills training at our manufacturing facility in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire.
In this key role, you will ensure that all Production, Processing and Warehouse, operatives are trained, assessed, and fully compliant with internal procedures and regulatory standards. You’ll work closely with line leaders to build capability, support right first time performance, and promote a strong food safety and quality culture across all shifts.
If you thrive in a fast paced factory environment, enjoy developing others, and take pride in delivering high quality, audit ready training, this role is a great opportunity to make a lasting impact.
Key Responsibilities
Training Strategy & Governance
• Develop and maintain the site Training Plan and annual Training Calendar, covering induction, mandatory, refresher, and progression pathways.
• Align all training with HACCP, GMP, allergen control, sanitation, hygiene, traceability, and food defence requirements.
• Maintain a robust Training Matrix for all site roles, ensuring accuracy and zero compliance gaps.
• Ensure training content is aligned to SOPs, Work Instructions, Risk Assessments, and Change Control processes.
Technical & Compliance Training
• Design and deliver high quality on the job (OJT) training across Machine Operation, Processing, Quality/Lab, and Warehouse/Despatch roles.
• Deliver mandatory training including Food Hygiene, Allergen Awareness, Health & Safety, COSHH, and Chemical Handling.
• Support audit readiness for BRCGS Food Safety, customer standards, and UK food legislation.
Cross Functional Collaboration
• Partner with Operations, Engineering, Quality, EHS, Warehouse, and HR to prioritise training needs, support start ups, and manage new product or process introductions.
• Coordinate specialist equipment training with suppliers and technicians (e.g., Cookers, Blenders Casting and packaging machines).
• Support onboarding for new starters, agency workers, and contractors to ensure readiness before entering live production.
Continuous Improvement & Culture
• Evaluate training effectiveness using KPIs, feedback, audit findings, and performance trends.
• Promote a strong food safety and quality culture by coaching, reinforcing behaviours, and embedding GMP standards.
• Lead or support CI activities related to skills gaps, waste, or downtime.
Required Qualifications & Experience
• Experience in food manufacturing, ideally dairy or other high risk products.
• Demonstrated experience in training coordination or L&D within a factory or similar environment.
• Strong understanding of HACCP, GMP, sanitation, allergens, traceability, and audit requirements.
• Skilled in developing training materials (SOPs, WIs, e learning) and conducting competency assessments.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills with confidence working across multilingual, shift based teams.
• Organised, detail oriented, and diligent with training records and compliance documentation.
Desirable
• Train the Trainer certification.
• Food Safety / HACCP Level 3+.
• Lean/Continuous Improvement experience.
• Experience with digital learning systems/LMS.
Schreiber Foods is an Equal Opportunity Employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
Schreiber Foods strives to do good through food every day. Based in North America, we’re a customer-brand leader in cream cheese, natural cheese, process cheese, beverages and yogurt.
Our more than 10,000 employees and presence on five continents enable us to be an essential ingredient in our customers’ success. With annual sales of more than $7 billion, we partner with the best retailers, restaurants, distributors and food manufacturers around the globe. We also recognize our responsibility to do good in the world and are driven to make a difference in everything we do.
We’ve come a long way since our start as a small cheese company in 1945. Today, our team is more than 10,000 strong at locations across North America, Europe, South America, Asia and Africa. But our commitment to providing safe food the right way has never changed.
At Schreiber, we call ourselves partners, not employees, and there’s a good reason behind that. Our work is more than just a job. We make the company grow. We help each other grow and take care of each other along the way. And, we all share in the rewards.
Our people are truly the heart of our company, and we're on a journey together. We work hard to find great people with diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives, and provide opportunities to help them grow. But it’s about more than a career at Schreiber. Like a family, we care deeply about each other.
We strive to foster an inclusive work environment where all our partners can thrive. We've increased our commitment to diversity and inclusion by creating an overarching Diversity and Inclusion Council, as well as resource groups for women, African Americans, Pride, Vets and more groups that give a voice to all of our partners.
We're always looking for passionate partners to join our team and bring to life our culture of being customer obsessed and brilliant at the basics. Want to learn more about our company? Visit us at www.schreiberfoods.com.
