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12-month contract for parental leave cover
Town Hall CBD location with hybrid work
Pacific region's largest and most experienced Travel Retail operator
Opportunity:
An experienced Food Safety Manager to join our team in an established role on a 12-month contract to manage food safety across approximately 20 cafes & bars in 8 locations across Australia & New Zealand, and additionally support the monitoring of a number of medium risk stores that range packaged PHF in retail stores.
Responsibilities:
You’ll take ownership of:
- Ensuring store teams understand our food safety obligations
- Ensuring food safety standards are maintained to a high level
- Ensuring store records are maintained in accordance with Food Safety Management Plan
- Ensuring new staff receive comprehensive training, including the use of our electronic reporting tool
- Conducting annual internal food safety & POS hygiene audits across high and medium risk stores in Australia & New Zealand and completing corrective actions
- Managing the annual external Food Safety Management System audit
- Ensuring food safety audit scores meet minimum benchmarks
- Managing food recalls & incidents
- Managing new food premise registrations & notifications
- Managing the pest control program, ensuring work is completed at each site & invoices are authorised
Travel Requirements:
The role will require occasional travel to sites across Australia & New Zealand (combination of day trips and overnight stays).
You’ll bring:
- A practical approach to meeting food safety standards in a dynamic travel retail environment
- Lead Food Safety Auditor qualification or similar
- 2-3 years’ experience in a similar role; previous food & beverage operations experience will be well regarded
- Attention to detail
- Confidence training teams in food safety and systems
- Demonstrated knowledge of national, state and local government regulations relating to food safety
- Knowledge of industry best practice
- High level of initiative and autonomy
- Well-developed stakeholder management & communication skills
The role will suit someone with previous study in Food Science / Nutrition / similar field with 2-years’ post-grad experience. Ideally, you’ll bring frontline experience in a cafe or QSR environment. The role is based in Sydney and candidates must have full working rights with the ability to travel to New Zealand.
About Us:
Lagardere AWPL is the Pacific region's largest and most experienced Travel Retail operator. Located in Australia, New Zealand and Noumea we have 180 store locations and 40 unique concepts across four Business Lines: Travel Essentials, Specialty, Duty Free & Luxury and Food Service. Two is better than one, and together, the people of Lagardere AWPL work hard to deliver on our promises to our customers, our partners, our teams & ourselves. We are guided by our values of Excellence, Adventure & Respect, which help us make decisions, challenge ourselves and create magical moments for everyone, every day.
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