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Job Description

Strategy/Planning

• Cooperates in a cross-functional manner as a change agent with all departments within the Commissary to ensure compliance with the local regulatory laws, licensing conditions and international standards in food safety.
• Co-coordinating with R & M team to implement preventive and corrective maintenance & identify and reports structural deficiencies in the food operation.
• Helps to co-ordinates third party audits.

Implementation

• Conducting daily hygiene inspection and sanitation (personal hygiene, working habits, environmental) conditions of all production, storage areas. He/she will also carry out quarterly internal audits and ensuring follow up for all CAP’s arising from the same.
• Manage and maintain food safety documentation and records. Ensure HACCP forms are available to the users, duly filled and are available during audits or when required.
• Conduct training in food safety and hygiene for food handlers including induction trainings for new staff & refreshes. Advice on training needs.
• Monitor and implement effectiveness of the pest management program and report any deficiencies
• Ensures that proper sanitation procedures are utilized and that adequate sanitation tests are performed by implementing an effective ATP swabbing regime being 100% swab pass rates, and that customers are not affected by negative microbiological contamination of food
• Manage and initiate traceability system established. Carry out traceability challenges every month to achieve 100% traceability within 2hours.
• Carry out random checks during receiving of items by suppliers and especially high-risk items, Issue FSR (food safety reports) for non-conforming supplier products and assist in conducting supplier audits.
• Carry out random checks during dispatch of items to branched especially high-risk items and report any deficiencies for action.

Reporting and Evaluation

• Assist the QA supervisor in investigating complains both food safety and quality related, coming up with a root cause and identify solutions and implement changes when monitoring systems indicate out of specifications, failed microbiological results & ensure corrective actions/preventive actions are enforced to prevent future re-occurrence.
• Ensuring timely and accurate ATP swab testing on a weekly basis and systematically reviews performance of the hygiene practices identifying hot spots with the aim of monitoring and ensuring being environmental and equipment sanitation
• Responsible for the accurate and timely issuing and accounting for all CAR (Corrective Action Request), Pest sighting, FSR (Food safety reports) to suppliers, Micro alerts with the aim of ensuring they are properly closed out to prevent future recurrence.

Budgeting

• Is aware of the financial implications of his/her decisions, and the overall performance of the section, and takes appropriate actions to avoid negative impact on the business. Such factors include overuse of ATP swabs, food wastage due to poor monitoring of CCP’s which lead to food being disposed of and the cost of staffing.
• Contributes to the annual budgeting effort by proposing CAPEX and OPEX relating to the department