Job Title: Food Safety & Hygiene Manager
Company Profile: A multinational company that deals in the Manufacturing and Production of Nutritional and dairy products, coffee, tea, beverages, chocolate and confectionery
Reports to: Regional Quality Analyst Manager
Main Responsibilities
Management responsibilities will be to:
· Ensure implementation of Food safety programme as per guidelines, covering all type of food safety risks like Pathogens, chemical contaminants, allergens and foreign bodies in the factory;
· Review of HACCP in case of any change in the process/recipe, food safety incident, line/procedure modifications;
· Review Food safety related complaints and follow up on the corrective actions;
· Analyze the food safety related quality assurance parameter trends (like EB, FBs etc) to assess and improve the food safety programme.
Functional Responsibilities:
· The incumbent will be responsible for trending, reviewing & carrying out assessments in
1. Microbiology & particularly in pathogen monitoring
2. Chemical contaminants in (Raw/packaging materials & Finished products)
3. Allergens management
4. Nutritional composition of the products
· Involvement in foreign body prevention measures;
· Assessment of food safety management system at vendors and vendor audits;
· Ensure implementation, validation & verification of HACCP;
· Provide technical assistance for Food Safety issues to other factories including Water, Marketing, Food services, Supply chain, Purchasing etc
· Assist factory Quality Assurance, Production and Engineering to investigate Food safety related complaints;
· Review and assess food safety related complaints on monthly basis and analyze the trend for corrective actions;
The ideal candidate should possess the following skills and competencies:
· B.Sc. or MSc Degree in Food science / Microbiology/ Biochemistry or related field from a recognized university;
· Minimum 5 years experience in food safety (Microbiology, Chemical & allergen etc), preferably with an FMCG background;
· Excellent leaderships skills;
· Excellent interpersonal skills with good relationship building skills;
· Ability to drive results and obtain information from a team;
· Self initiative and proactive;
· A proven team player with creative problem solving skills;
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Kindly also mention your current/ last salary and benefits.
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