Nutrition and Food Safety Officer

1 month ago


Newtownards, United Kingdom McKee's Farmshop Full time

**Nutrition and Food Hygiene Officer**

Established and respected in our field for 25 years McKee’s Country Store and Restaurant, successfully operate a thriving Farm Shop which has become a popular destination and often described as a ‘food emporium’. Our passion and drive throughout is producing our farm produce offering family meals, boasting an extensive delicatessen and a 140-seater Restaurant. A family run business maintaining 60+ staff members. We Farm - Beef Cattle, Lamb, Poultry and Egg. Food traceability being key to winning our customer fan base.

Essential:

- Nutrition/Food Science degree or equivalent
- HACCP Qualification
- Food Safety Level 2
- Allergen Awareness
- Understanding of Quality Management Systems & HACCP
- Experience with Nutritics (or other Food Data Management System)
- Experience with Environmental Health Officers (EHO)

Desired (but not essential):

- BRC / EC Approved Plant Experience

**Skills**
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office
- Excellent organizational skills
- Excellent communication skills at all levels
- Liaising and working as a team with our chefs and butchers
- Professional telephone manner
- Fast paced environment

**Benefits**
- Countryside Location
- On-site Parking
- Working Farm
- Staff Discount

**Roles & Responsibilities (including, but not limited to)**:

- Maintain accountabilities for all operations related to HACCP, hygiene, food safety, health and safety, and pest control.
- Conduct regular audits to ensure compliance with HACCP, hygiene, and safety standards along with implementing corrective actions based on audit findings, maintaining a culture of continuous improvement.
- Manage relationships with external auditors, regulatory bodies, and advisory services and schedule audits, inspections, calibrations & meetings as required.
- Creating Product Specifications and amending as required.
- Handling Complaints
- Creating & printing labels for traceability
- Training staff internally for inhouse Food Safety Training & Induction Training
- Document Control - maintain paperwork, amend as required.
- Stay updated on evolving regulations and industry standards and then implement processes to comply with new requirements.
- Knowledge and understanding of Food Safety Legislation, Food Labelling Laws, Health & Safety
- Strong attention to detail whilst being able to analyse information.
- Managing of food labelling using Nutritics and linking to the till (EPOS) system
- Collating recipes for product management and then managing allergen information throughout business and providing cost prices for meals produced.
- Handle environmental health and hygiene within the business.
- Collection of sampling for microbiological testing as per schedule

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Benefits**:

- Employee discount
- On-site parking

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 29/04/2024



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