Food Safety Specialist
About The Position
The Food Safety Specialist supports hotel, restaurant, and grocery clients in upholding brand standards, ensuring food quality, and providing customer-focused service to enhance the guest experience. The role assesses compliance with regulatory, industry, and proprietary brand standards; observes food preparation and cooking practices; and works with clients to identify the causes of assessment discrepancies and develop corrective action plans. Specialists teach and coach clients on making workplaces safer and healthier. The position involves conducting audits and inspections, implementing and monitoring food safety practices, training staff, investigating food safety incidents, ensuring regulatory compliance, and maintaining documentation. It requires substantial travel and independent work, with some evening and weekend hours. Specialists may work at customer residences, properties, and businesses, often unsupervised, and may drive a company vehicle as a primary duty.
Requirements
- Meet the requirements to obtain a CP-FS certification.
- Be available to work Monday through Friday and Saturdays and evenings as needed.
- Possess a valid driver’s license from the state of residence.
- Obtain licenses or certificates required by federal, state, and/or local regulations; the company covers the cost.
- Have excellent listening, organization, communication, and time-management skills.
- Be able to influence others with tact and skill and provide clear, constructive feedback positively.
- Thrive in an autonomous working environment.
- Be able to work a flexible schedule.
- Be able to safely operate a vehicle on public streets when driving is part of the job.
Nice To Haves
- Strong technical knowledge of food safety.
- ServSafe and/or CP-FS certification(s).
Responsibilities
- Conduct assessments of conformity to regulatory, industry, and proprietary brand standards.
- Observe food preparation and cooking practices to ensure food safety, health, and sanitation standards.
- Partner with clients to identify root causes of assessment discrepancies and develop corrective action plans.
- Teach and coach clients on creating safer and healthier workplaces.
- Conduct audits and inspections.
- Implement and monitor food safety practices.
- Train and educate staff.
- Investigate food safety incidents.
- Ensure compliance with regulations.
- Maintain documentation and records.
- Organize and prioritize work according to urgency, efficiency, and other factors.
- Travel 50%–70%, or 8–10 days per month, including some evening and weekend work.
Benefits
- Benefits enrollment is available immediately upon hire, with benefits starting on day one for full-time colleagues.
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
- 401(k) retirement plan with company-matching contributions.
- Tuition reimbursement for full-time colleagues.
- Vacation days and sick days.
- Company-paid holidays and floating holidays.
- Training and development programs.
- Career growth opportunities and promotion from within.
- Competitive pay; some roles offer performance incentives.
- Company mindset that prioritizes health, safety, and flexibility.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
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