Consultant Fsas

OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND, United Kingdom
- Whitbread PLC is owner of the UK’s favourite hotel chain Premier Inn, as well as restaurant brands, Beefeater, Brewers Fayre, Table Table, Bar + Block, and Cookhouse + Pub. Premier Inn hotels and restaurants across the UK and Germany service over 5 million customers a month.

NSF have worked with Whitbread for over 20 years providing the implanted technical team to deliver the technical expertise to support the business. As a global leader in food quality technical standards development, testing, and auditing, we are ideal partners to support Whitbread’s on-going development - so come and join us

We are looking for a **Quality Technologist** (Consultant FSAS) who will work as an NSF integrated team member in the Whitbread logistics Depot (GXO), based in Wellingborough. In this role you will monitor product quality standards by carrying out inspection and testing of food products, reporting results and trends to the F&B team and suppliers. Providing a responsive resource to monitor standards, identify and escalate issues to drive quality improvement.

RESPONSIBILITIES
- Including, but not limited to:

- Product inspection at the Depot against a risk assessed sampling plan agreed with Technical team
- Develop and Produce inspection summary reports and recommendations for actions as appropriate
- Escalation of serious out of specification results requiring immediate action such as rejection / withdrawal or recall
- Key initial Liaison for Whitbread with GXO on issues and activities and follow up with wider NSF Whitbread Technical Team
- Maintain routine surveillance sampling plan and coordinate with contracted laboratory plus technologist
- Review rejections completed by GXO team and provide support or guidance when temperature / quality on borderline of specification
- Develop visit protocols for Whitbread restaurant sites - check deliveries, create quality reports / cook validations in conjunction with F&B implementation team
- Review change of procedures in restaurants where they could impact product safety - in collaboration with Risk and security, retail audit team and/or F&B implementation team

QUALIFICATIONS
- HACCP or Food Safety level 2
- Previous experience in a QA/food manufacturing role (desirable)
- Knowledge or experience in Fresh Produce (desirable)
- A passion for food and willingness to handle/taste food of all food types
- Experience of working with product specifications/samples, and using online specification databases e.g. TraQtion
- Knowledge of food regulations (desirable)
- Problem-solving and analytical skills
- Good IT and communication skills
- Ability to work independently and follow through on assignments with limited direction.
- Good attention to detail with experience giving detailed and quantitative feedback from inspections
- Primary location will be Wellingborough Depot with travel to a range of Whitbread restaurants and head office in Dunstable, travel to suppliers maybe required on occasion
- Travel is required to sites that are accessible by car, so a driving license and car is required

**What NSF can offer you**:
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to work with one of the UK’s favourite hotel chains? Being an integral member of our forward-thinking technical team where product safety and quality are at the heart of everything we do?

This role will give you the unique opportunity to work with NSF’s integrated technical team at Whitbread, working directly with the technical team at the depot.

Could this be your dream job with a brand you can really get passionate about? and send us your CV and covering letter today This is a great time to be joining NSF and we look forward to hearing from you

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ABOUT US
- NSF is a growing global public health and safety organization. Our mission is to protect and improve human and planet health by enabling safe food, clean water and life-enhancing health technologies and products for millions of people around the world. We do so by developing standards, testing, auditing, certifying, and providing advisory services to clients in the food, water, health sciences and consumer industries.

Our nearly 3,000 employees provide services in over 180 countries through many of our global offices, at our 35,000 client sites, from home offices and in state-of-the-art laboratories. We’re growing fast and expanding into new areas such as sustainability and digital. And that’s where you come in. Come join a team that makes a difference in the world.

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