Food Safety Assistant

Contact person for this position:
Taneea Strydom

**Job Overview**

A busy frozen food and meat product manufacturing company needs to fill a very challenging and senior role as a Food Safety Assistant and will be reporting to the Group Food Safety and Quality Manager and the Operations Director.

This must be your passion, or it will not work. Must be organized, disciplined and willing to walk the extra mile. Able to work under pressure. Have a positive energetic attitude and enjoy an ever-changing environment.

To carry out all functions of the Food Safety Assistant and to assist the Group Food Safety and Quality Manager with the day-to-day requirements of the Food Safety and Quality management department

**ROUTINE TASKS**

**Food safety**
- Assist the Group Food Safety and Quality Manager in the day-to-day maintenance of all the documented Food Safety PRP's, OPRP's, SOP's, GMP's and procedures.
- Do walk through hygiene inspections of the plant premises and report food safety non-conformances to relevant managers and supervisors.
- Ensure that all food safety records are completed once weekly, verified, and report non-conformances to department and or section managers and supervisors.
- Ensure that all food safety certificates, records and document are appropriately filed and displayed as prescribed.
- Control First-Aid boxes, order medical supplies and ensure that plaster register is up to date.
- Ensure the scheduling and sampling plus documentation of samples and swabs on products, personnel, contact surfaces and water for microbiological and or chemical testing.
- Ensure that all personnel are checked at least once daily for personal medical fitness and ensure that the records - Medical fitness are completed daily.
- Ensure that all personnel are checked at least once daily for correct personal hygiene practices, that non-conformances are recorded and to report non-conformances to relevant section managers and supervisors.
- Assist in the day-to-day execution of the PRP - Medical fitness and SOP's on Pre-employment medical certification and Visitor and Contractor checks.
- Ensure the execution and maintaining of thermo-control monitoring, verification, and report on the status to Senior and Line Management.
- Ensure that patty forming machine, band saws and dicers are checked at least once daily for hard plastic and metal soiling and that records - Hard plastics and metals - are completed daily.
- Ensure that all knifes are checked for metal soiling / damage and ensure that record - Hard plastic and metals - Knifes are completed daily.
- Do vermin control own checks once weekly and complete record - Vermin inspections internal.
- Ensure that all ablution facilities are checked daily for availability of soap, toilet paper and hand towels or fully operational hand dryers and that the cleaner replenish containers where necessary plus complete records - Availability soap, toilet paper and towels.
- Ensure the execution and maintaining of the cleaning and sanitizing processes and report to Senior and Line Management.
- To ensure the structured removal of waste as well as condemned materials from the premises.
- To ensure the maintaining of the control program addressing the suitability as well as the storage and handling of all wrapping and packing materials.
- To ensure that all areas, machinery, vehicles, and equipment are maintained as per pre-determined schedule.
- Perform and assist with, formal and informal internal Food Safety training.
- Accept the role of Food Safety Team leader.
- Manage and organize the Food Safety team in day-to-day hygiene and food safety activities.
- Investigate all food safety incidents and request corrective actions.
- Maintain and update approved suppliers list.
- Assist in planning and executing of supplier audits.
- Assist in documented supplier surveys.
- Monitor supplier food safety non-conformances, analyse and report.
- To monitor and maintain control measures to ensure that no contamination of finished products occur from allergen cross contamination.
- Take corrective actions whenever non-fulfilment of a specified requirement occur and report such corrective actions to senior and line management.
- Assist with maintaining the traceability system.
- Conduct traceability and recall mock studies as scheduled.
- Assist with the scheduling and executing of internal food safety audits.
- Assist with the data analysis, scheduling and presenting of food safety management reviews.
- To monitor and maintain HACCP control measures to ensure that no contamination of products occur during receiving, storage, handling or packing.
- Ensure that all hygiene and quality certificates, records and document are appropriately filed and displayed as prescribed.
- Ensure that documents used are current and valid and that all relevant personnel are in possession of such documents.
- Update and revise all applicable documents whenever a process or procedure are changed.
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