The, Food Safety Specialist oversees all of
the Food Safety functions for the Long John Silver’s and A&W
Restaurants to ensure highly disciplined compliance with all food
safety and sanitation standards, systems, practices,
policies and procedures that will assure product quality and safety
of our products for our restaurants and customers. This
position will serve as the Crisis Core Team Leader for the brands;
approve the cleaning chemicals and supplies, monitor high risk
foods, coordinate product withdrawals/recoveries for food products,
chemicals or other items, and represent the food safety function in
cross- branded functions and franchise boards. This position
will manage the Standards Exception Testing (SET) program for LJS
and A&W; over see product quality cuttings and billing; seafood
certifications, Certified Professional Food Manager (CPFM) program
and training, and Food Standards Consultation (FSC) and Champs
Excellence Review (CER) program content and specialist training.
This position will provide technical support and solutions focused
towards operations, by providing leadership in quality enhancement,
operations, communications and program improvements. Additionally,
this position is also responsible for keeping up to date on Food
Safety issues, laws and regulatory (local/state/federal)
requirements to ensure compliance.
JOB FUNCTIONS:
· Respond to food safety crisis,
regulatory issues, communicable/food borne/allergy complaints and
investigations and direct product recoveries and withdrawals.
(50%)
- Manage the Crisis Core
Teams
- Reduce the risk of illness/communicable
disease or other food safety claims
- Restaurant
visits/communications
- Regulatory
visits/communications
- Oversee SET program
· Health Department Inspection, Pest
Control, CER and 3rd Party Food Safety Audit programs and other
programs
(15%)
- Manage the data collection
and reporting systems.
- Provide on-going training
to the specialists
- Manage the chemical program
(approving products)
- Develop microbial sampling
programs and analyze results
· Develop, implement and sustain new
methods and procedures to drive food safety improvements within the
restaurant (10%)
- Provide technical support
and solutions to brand support teams (FIT, Training, HR, Legal, OPS, Eng,
UFPC, FRN, MKT)
· Conduct product cuttings, billing
and QA
procedures
(20%)
- Order products,
evaluate products according to specifications, communicate with vendors,
as needed.
WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:
Internal: Executive Team,
Operations, Public Affairs, FIT, Engineering, Human
Resources, Risk Management, Training (brand and Yum!), Yum QA, YRI
QA, FSRA, RIS, Finance, and Communications
External: Local, State and Federal
Regulatory, UFPC, Distribution Centers, Suppliers, FRN, Licensees,
Academia, Consumers, Lab Directors and personal and Food Safety
Experts
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL REQUIRED:
· Education:
- Minimum BS Degree in
related field (engineering, biology, microbiology, industrial hygiene,
food science, biochemistry, veterinary science, pre-med or other
science base), Masters preferred
- Certified Professional Food
Manager or Serve Safe Certified, preferred
· Experience
- 5 years or more in
the food industry with food safety quality assurance experience and/or
regulatory experience
