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Food Safety Specialist – Louisville,
KY 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%)
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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)
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Product Monitoring Food Safety (High risk foods including soft
serve)
(5%) -
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:
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 -
Proficient computer skills (Microsoft Office Suite) -
Able to build relationships with external in internal teams -
Strong interpersonal communication skills -
Effectively participate on multiple cross-functional teams and capable of
leading cross-function meetings -
Able to defend decisions -
Multi-lingual (Spanish), preferred. |
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