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Job Title
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Food
Safety Specialist - Food Lion
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Description
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Job Title: Food Safety Specialist
Department: Food Safety
Job Location: Northern Virginia/Maryland Area
Job Duties:
Help ensure customer satisfaction through the
education and validation of applicable food safety standards and procedures
as they concern our store/DC facilities and associates. The Specialist will
instruct through training, coaching, auditing and mentoring. Specialist
must be knowledgeable about food safety, sanitation audits, pest control,
food safety training, weights & measures, Country of Origin requirements, regulatory food codes (FDA Food Code) and
interact regularly with the regulatory arena as official liaison.
-Inspection of store/DC facilities to ensure we
meet or exceed established internal and regulatory requirements. Conducts
in-depth review of food safety and sanitation procedures compliance and
necessary follow-up/assessment. Focused on ‘root cause’ analysis.
-Conducts food safety training sessions and
serve as certification examination authorized proctor.
-Health department and department of agriculture
liaison. Develops contacts and relations with regulatory officials
responsible for food regulation enforcement. Participate in regulatory
meetings, educate and be advocate for company food safety standard
practices/policies/programs.
-Advise direct
supervisor and senior management (DM, DO, Market VP) regarding food safety
and sanitation issues within their respective regions.
-Monitor and follow-up with sanitation and pest
control vendor activities daily. Works with the local pest control and
sanitation vendors to ensure compliance with contractual arrangements and
directs them as needed.
-Conduct regular food safety/sanitation
assessments of assigned distribution center operations. Focus on GMPs,
sanitation and pest control support.
-Assist as needed in other regulatory compliance
issues and follow-up. Such as, Country of Origin Labeling, WIC, weight and
measure standards.
-Provides field support for corporate food
safety initiatives.
-Provides food safety field support, direction
and follow-up for emergency/crisis situations (power outages, fires,
floods, claimed illnesses, recall audits, etc.).
-Provides food safety field support, direction
and follow-up pertaining to consumer compliants,
claimed illnesses, etc.
-Provide microbiological sampling of store
equipment and facilities and interpret the data so as to provide feedback
and direction to the store and district management staff.
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Requirements
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Experience Required:
A bachelor’s degree in a life science (food
science, biology, microbiology, zoology) or public health field is preferred.
Preferably three to five year’s experience in
managing food safety or quality assurance related work including training
and auditing. Three to five year’s experience in
working with retail operations. Preferred Registered Sanitarian or state
equivalent and Certified Professional-Food Safety (CP-FS) credentials.
Skills Required:
• Must be able to work indecently, with minimal
direct supervision.
• A self starter with
excellent interpersonal skills.
• Must be results oriented, have ability to
develop self and others.
• Focused on ‘root cause’ analysis.
• Excellent communication skills for both
one-on-one and group interactions.
• Effective in delivering food safety training
programs to adult learners.
• Ability to interact with all levels of associates
and management.
• Excellent written skills.
• Must have ability to act as a team leader or
team builder.
• Must embrace diversity and support company
initiatives and goals.
• Must be available for overnight travel, as
necessary (often times reacting to inclement weather issues).
• Operate a car.
• Must have basic computer skills to operate MS
Word, Excel, PowerPoint and e-mail.
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