Consultant Fsas

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.

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ABOUT THE TEAM
- NSF provides expertise and accredited food services across the entire food value chain: from agriculture, animal welfare, aquaculture, dairy, and production through to processing, distribution, quality management, retail, and restaurants. As a pioneer in food safety, we help businesses thrive while achieving their food sustainability, compliance, and risk management goals.

Our certifications services cover the Global Food Safety Initiative, supplier assurance, foodservice equipment and nonfood compounds, and organic and Certified Transitional certification through Quality Assurance International (QAI). We also offer HACCP validation and inspection, label claims verification and certification, DNA and food package testing, and product and process development. Separately, we provide expert consulting, food safety training, and auditing in areas including food fraud and gap assessments, retail food safety, and brand standards.

JOB INFO
- Job Identification
- 1296
- Job Category
- Consulting and Technical Services
- Posting Date
- 02/07/2024, 10:10 AM
- Job Schedule
- Full time
- Locations
- Unit 23, Long Hanborough, OX29 8SJ, GB
- People Leader Position
- No
- Work Classification
- Hybrid