Specialist - Food Safety

Overview

Supports the coordination for all food safety activities in the Central Nutrition Center and in all school cafeterias. 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 HACCP guidelines.

Responsibilities

• 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 other potentially hazardous foods for all school cafeterias and conducts food safety audits / inspections.
• Directs the procedures to be followed on food safety in CNC school cafeterias, warehouse, Central Kitchen, cook / chill, ingredient control, and sandwich / salad prep.
• Conducts research on all food safety investigations for foreign object complaints reported from school cafeterias and Central kitchen; provides disposition based on the research data.
• Devises critical control points to be monitored on an hourly, daily, weekly, 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.

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