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Job ref: 16040
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Location: Belfast
Contract type: Contract
Closing Date: 28 February 2025
Food Safety & Quality Intern
Food Saftey and Quality Intern
Must be available to start Immeditely for a 6 month contract
Musgrave is one of the Europe’s most successful family-owned businesses with a 140-year heritage in food and brand innovation, supporting communities across the island of Ireland and Spain.
Every day we feed one in three people in Ireland through 15 market leading food and beverage brands that include SuperValu, Centra, Frank and Honest and Musgrave Market Place.
We support thousands of retail and foodservice family businesses who live and work in the heart of the communities they serve.
We are committed to becoming the most trusted and sustainable business in Ireland and we are making changes across the company to make sure that happens. We want to make a positive impact on the world and we will support our suppliers and customers to make a difference too.
We are recruiting a Food Safety and Quality Intern for a 6 Month Contract to start immeditaley.
Role Purpose:
To ensure that Food Safety & Quality activities within Independently Owned stores are effectively managed and co-ordinated across the business thereby ensuring that Retail Food Safety standards are best in class at all times. The role includes specific operational activities as well as long term strategic development projects.
Leading and supporting Retail Food Safety initiatives at store level
Area of Responsibility: Management of Retail Food Safety
- Tracking ongoing Retail Food Safety Audit performance across SuperValu and Centra and Mace Branded stores
- Supporting stores in the development and implementation of a robust food safety management system and promoting Food Safety Culture
- Resolving audit issues & queries
- Liaison with 3rd party auditing body on scheduling matters
- Reporting performance against targets to Stakeholders
- Conduct scheduled and adhoc store visits / Food Safety Audits
- Support store in implementation of new food safety procedures or legislation changes
- Leading and supporting projects as required through the Food Safety & Quality- Retail, Consumer & Development Team
- Support of other team members across the Food Safety & Quality Team
- Working collaboratively across the Retail, Consumer, Development Team to support team projects and broader FSQ projects
Area of Responsibility: Food Safety Communications
- Providing Monthly and Quarterly updates to the Sales Teams on Food Safety Issues
- Active participation in compliance reviews
- Producing and Issuing Food Safety Materials / updates
- Scheduling Regional Food Safety Workshops
- Providing training to store colleagues on a 1-2-1 basis on Food Safety matters
- Review and update of the Retail Food Safety Standard and associated SOPS and auditing questions
Area of Responsibility: Food Safety Development
- Enhancing and improving Food Safety Training solutions
- Effective Rollout of Retail IT Food Safety Solutions, eg Kelsius
- Ensuring revamps and new Food Concepts are Food Safety Risk Assessed in advance of development and rollout
- Liaison with external partners on new concepts / developments / challenges in Retail Food Safety
- Development of Long Term Food Safety Standards as per 3 Year FSQ Strategy
- Liaison with MRPI and MWP on co-ordination of Food Safety Policies
Area of Responsibility: Creating the Best Team
- Managing Food Safety in co-ordination with the wider FS&Q team / retailers
- Participation in Food Safety & Quality team sessions at a group level
- Retail KPIs within the FS&Q targets are achieved consistently
Knowledge and Experience:
- Degree in Food Technology/Science
- Effective communication
- Adaptive to changing environmental conditions
- Logical, problem solving approach to issues where required
- Presentation skills
- Full clean driving licence and access to a car.
- Excellent written and communication skills
- Experience in working with Excel
Musgrave is an equal opportunities employer.
We encourage applications from diverse candidates. If we can make any accommodations to enable you to be the best version of yourself during the interview, please let us know.
The ideal candidate will have/be:
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