Quality and Food Safety Specialist

Maypole is currently going through a period of growth and requires a responsible Quality and Food Safety Specialist to join our team.

Responsibilities:

• Main responsibility for Food Safety documentation research, preparation, review and revisions (Raw material, Packaging and Finished Product Specifications)
• Periodically review all food safety procedures and instructions, to ensure they remain current.
• Ensuring that processes needed for the QMS and FSMS are established, implemented and maintained.
• Actively promote and deliver training internally to employees ensuring that process and end-product quality and food safety competence meet required levels
• Investigate potential sanitation issues, which may result in product contamination, reduced shelf-life, customer complaints or rejection of products
• Proactively follow hygiene (including microbiology) and food safety standards relative to legislative and regulatory guidelines
• Assists with the upkeep of Maypole’s FSMS relative to the PRP’s program and organising of schedules.
• Monitoring food safety practices during preparation and storage to ensure that foods are safe for customers.
• Assisting in the setting up Internal Audit function within Maypole factory by preparation of checklists, audit questions, investigations and findings.
• Actively participating in First-party (Internal) and Second-party (supplier) audits documenting the audit findings and submitting reports related to non conformances, corrections and corrective actions.
• Forming part of the Food Safety Team and adopting a risk based approach relative to HACCP processes and the resulting OPRPs and CCPs.
• Follow Validation processes in controlling the hazards (establishing critical limits) and Verification Processes (monitoring critical limits set).

Skills:

• Extensive knowledge of FSSC22000, ISO22000, ISO22002-3, BRC and Halal Standards.
• Excellent interpersonal and oral communication skills
• Sound understanding of FSMS with particular focus on HACCP studies – adopting a risk based assessment approach.
• Strongly Analytical and detail focused.
• Proficient in conducting audits of food preparation and sanitisation
• Able to monitor staff to ensure compliance with food safety standards.
• Skilled at developing and delivering food safety training.

Education:

• Bachelor’s of Science Degree – Food Science or equivalent.
• Experience within the Food Industry is an added asset.