Specialist - Food Safety

Food Safety Coordinator

Supports the coordination for all food safety activities in the Central Nutrition Center and in all school cafeterias. In addition, the position assists in ensuring that all food safety standards and requirements meet Memphis Shelby County Health Department, State of Tennessee Health Codes, and United States Department of Agriculture Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) guidelines.

Essential Job Functions

• Establishes, directs, trains all employees, and monitors the HACCP, food safety plan and sanitation procedures that all employees must follow, including those for safe food handling when transporting food from satellite locations.
• Conducts random testing of cook / chill and any potentially hazardous foods for all school cafeteria ensuring that guidelines and standards are in place to eliminate both, external and internal, product contamination or food-borne illness; and conducts food safety audits / inspections for all school cafeterias.
• Directs the procedures to be followed on food safety in the following areas of the CNC : school cafeterias, warehouse, Central Kitchen, cook / chill, and ingredient control, and the sandwich / salad prep.
• Conducts research on all food safety investigations for foreign object complaints that are reported from the school cafeterias and Central kitchen. Provide disposition based the research data.
• Devises critical control points to be monitored on an hourly, daily, and weekly schedule as well as a monthly or quarterly schedule.
• Maintains all records on food received and delivered; holding and storage temperatures; labels, rotating inventory FIFO.
• Monitors food safety standards in schools to ensure foods transported meet and maintain all temperature holding standards as needed.
• Performs other related duties as assigned or directed.

Minimum Qualifications

Graduation from an accredited college or university with a Bachelor's Degree in Food Service, Hotel and Restaurant Administration / Management or equivalent plus an additional two (2) years of experience in quantity food production and food preparation, or equivalent, for a total education / experience of six (6) years. Requires completion of food safety courses offered by the Memphis and Shelby County Health Department, the National Restaurant Association Foundation for Food Safety, National Food Service Management Institute, or the American School Food Service Association. Requires HACCP Certification for food establishments. (PROOF OF EDUCATION, TRAINING, AND / OR EXPERIENCE IS REQUIRED)

Degree Equivalency Formula

Bachelor's Degree = 4 years plus required years of experience.

Master's Degree = 2 years plus required years of experience. Where Master's degrees are required, years for Bachelor's degrees must be included.