Regional Food Safety and Hygiene Specialist

About the position

Ready to elevate food safety standards to new heights? Join this dynamic team as a Regional Food Safety and Hygiene Specialist! As part of a leading group of cafes, your expertise will be pivotal in ensuring top-notch food safety and hygiene practices across our Western Cape locations. We're seeking a detail-oriented individual with stellar administration and reporting skills to spearhead this crucial aspect of our operation. If you thrive in fast-paced environments and pride yourself on thinking outside the box under pressure, we want to hear from you! Take the leap and be a driving force behind culinary excellence in these cafes."
Minimum Requirement

• Qualification as Biologist / Food Micro Biologist/Food Technology
• Minimum 3 - 5 years of experience in food safety
• Strong Administrative Skills
• Strong reporting skills.
• High Proficiency in MS Office.

Responsibilities:

• • Your role will involve providing technical support to hygiene, maintaining and improving food safety and management systems for all café's, Maintaining and improving the food safety and management system for all cafes, Closing Audit findings and Risk Management, in-store trials, and reporting thereof.
  • Provide technical support to hygiene on a regional level.
  • Assist with maintaining and improving the food safety and management system for the café.
  • Closing of audit findings and risk management.
  • Completing NCRS and upskilling team.
  • Assisting with in-store trials and reporting thereof.
  
  Food Safety and Hygiene:
  
  
  
  • Internal Audits           
  • Audits for stores as per schedule, drives Café Manager's monthly audits in store.
  
  
  • IBL external Audits:    
  
  
  • Assist with corrective action plans for stores and communicating accurate and timely feedback to technologists.                 
  
  
  • Thermometer Calibration:
  
  
  • Drive tests being submitted within the 2 window period as shared with stores.     
  
  
  • Escalation and Reporting:
  
  
  • Drive Structural, Pest, and Chemical Escalations in-store with the Regional Ops Team and store team.
  • Conducting Root cause investigations on high-priority stores and providing feedback in reports from relevant parties.
  
  
  • Risk Management:
  
  
  • Manage and Feedback on store closure that results from risk management, see the process through from start to finish.
  
  
  • Assessment and Validation:
  
  
  • Assist with Instore Validation of Coaches and Supervisors on Hygiene and Food Safety
  
  
  • Ecolab:
  
  
  • Assisting with SOP for dilution and driving control of chemicals with the beverage regional team.
  
  
  • Training:
  
  
  • Responsible for in-store Coaching of Hygiene Audits for Café Managers, upskilling, and training of BOH supervisors.
  • Driving shelf life cards in store, and training as required.                                            
  • Validating and training supervisors in the store.
  • Uploading of electronic training registers.
  
  
  • Technical Support.
  
  
  • Occupational Health and Safety. 
  
  
  
   
   
   

Desired Skills:

• food safety
• biologist
• BOH
• BOH Manager
• Compliance Manager
• Hygiene
• Micro Biologist