Food Safety Coordinator

SUMMARY:
To ensure the effective monitoring and improvement of the Food Safety Management System (FSMS), co

POSITION INFO:

Food Safety Coordinator Operations Accountable for specialist outputs, as well as initiating quality standards within defined work routines and policies. Job Purpose To ensure the effective monitoring and improvement of the Food Safety Management System (FSMS), conduct food safety audits, manage pest control and conduct food safety inspections. Key Accountabilities and Outputs Food Safety Management System • Food Safety Team Leader • Continuous monitoring and improvement to the Food Safety Management System (FSMS) • Coordinating Monthly Food Safety Meetings & Annual Food Safety Management Review • Responsible for enforcing Change Management Controls wrt Food Safety Audits • Plans and Coordinates internal audits • Represents TBC during external/3rd party audits • Raise and manage internal and external audit findings, corrective actions and verification • Ensure the management of the CCPs and or OPRP's, report any failures and take necessary corrective action in consultation with Quality Manager and GM • Ensure compliance to all regulatory and customer food safety mandates/ requirements Pest Control • Responsible for Internal Pest Management for both plant and DC • Internally appointed pest control officer • Manages all pest control records • Pest Control Trends Analysis Inspections • Inspection of Plant Hygiene Units are in working order and stocked up with cleaning and sanitising chemicals • Conducts Plant Cleaning Inspections against the Master Cleaning Schedule • Conducts Glass and Foreign body Inspections • Conducts Inspections of the grounds and facilities Adherence to the Quality, Food Safety, Health, Safety and Environmental Standards • Adherence to Standards: Ensure strict adherence to Quality, Food, Health, Safety and Environmental policies and standards. • Enforcement: Enforce all food safety and health regulations, policies, and requirements at all times to guarantee a secure work environment. • Personal Hygiene: Maintain exceptional personal hygiene as per the organization's code of conduct. Food Safety Coordinator JDO_040_v2 Updated Nov 2023 Page 2 of 5 • Contamination Control: Raise awareness about potential physical product contamination and implement control measures to prevent it. • Health and Safety Measures: Take reasonable precautions to prevent health and safety hazards. Follow the prescribed incident reporting procedure in case of accidents. • Knowledge and Compliance: Stay updated with relevant business information, policies, processes, and procedures. Enforce compliance with legislative and statutory requirements, as well as GMP's (Good Manufacturing Practices). • Training: Attend and enforce the implementation of learnings from training sessions related to Quality, Food Safety, and Health and Safety. • Housekeeping: Maintain high levels of cleanliness and orderliness within the work environment. General • Responsible to ensure housekeeping is performed and ensure that all products and activities are stored and are executed within the demarcated areas according to the housekeeping policy (green red and yellow areas) • Conversant with relevant business information, policies, processes and procedures • Maintains expected performance standards • While Job Descriptions are written up for the purpose of a basic outline of the work and responsibilities associated with the Job, the Company encourages and expects all employees from time to time, to assist with work that may not be a direct part of their job description.

Qualifications and Experience 

• Grade 12 / Matric / NQF level 4 (Essential) 

• Upto 3 years experience (Operational Execution) Technical, FMCG

 • Basic MS Excel; MS Word; E Mail 

Key Qualities Communication 

• Routine communication in connection with instructions, requests or normal work tasks Problem Solving 

• Proactive identification of problems that are concrete and procedural, troubleshoot and apply solutions in line with guidelines provided or escalate more complex problems to superiors, providing information required to solve problems. Relationships Maintained 

• Others outside of own work area but inside the organisation 

Behavioural Competencies

 Verbal Communication

 • Able to communicate verbally in a logical manner.

 • Takes the intended audience into account when communicating verbal information. 

 • Makes use of appropriate business language in verbal communication.

 • Includes all relevant information in verbal arguments. 

 • Demonstrates proficiency of language in verbal communication.

 • Interprets complex information to expresses own viewpoint in verbal communication. 

• Concludes verbal arguments by making reference to relevant facts

 Decision Making

 • Organises information to make it easier to analyse or see trends. 

• Anticipates consequences and formulates alternatives. 

• Establishes clear decision criteria for making informed choices. 

• Seeks relevant information to better understand situations and problems.

 • Conducts appropriate analysis; neither makes snap decisions or over-analyses. 

• Sees relationships between various facts, figures or other information. Continuous Improvement 

• Increases performance expectations when success has been achieved