Food Safety & Quality Specialist

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🇨🇴 Colombia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

✨ Safety Specialist

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GCG Official

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5001 - 10000 employees

🍽️ Food & Beverage

✈️ Travel

📦 Logistics

Food & Beverage • Travel • Logistics

GCG Official is a premier provider of aviation support and culinary services. They specialize in enhancing travel experiences through services like airport lounges, dining options, airline catering, and ground handling. With a presence across Latin America and the Caribbean, GCG Official focuses on creating personalized and memorable connections in the travel and food industries, aiming to optimize processes and elevate customer satisfaction.

📋 Description

• Establish and maintain food safety and quality requirements within the approved corporate framework • Translate regulatory, corporate, and customer requirements into operational standards and technical controls • Define and maintain technical requirements for HACCP, prerequisite programs, hygiene controls, allergen management, traceability, and food safety verification • Review station food safety plans and confirm hazards and controls reflect actual products, processes, and operating conditions • Establish validation and verification priorities, including microbiological testing and shelf-life studies • Define quality control criteria for product and service specifications • Supervise the Food Safety & Quality Coordinator’s technical work and review deliverables • Coordinate with HSSE and review cross-disciplinary risks affecting food safety or quality • Assess risks using process information, inspections, complaints, incidents, and verification data • Establish intervention priorities, remediation deadlines, and corrective responses • Report material risks, recurring deficiencies, and unresolved actions to the QHSE Lead and operational leadership • Provide technical direction to local food safety and quality representatives • Conduct inspections according to the corporate intervention plan and emerging risks • Document deficiencies, communicate corrective outcomes, and approve closure of technical inspection deficiencies within delegated authority • Lead technical evaluations of significant incidents, complaints, and recurring deviations • Evaluate root cause analyses and approve or reject corrective action plans within delegated authority • Verify implementation and sustained effectiveness of corrective actions • Define training content and competence criteria; train and coach local representatives and operational teams • Develop the Food Safety & Quality Coordinator through assignments, technical review, and feedback • Develop, review, and maintain food safety and quality standards, procedures, technical instructions, and training materials • Assess implications of changes to products, ingredients, suppliers, equipment, processes, or facilities • Participate in corporate evaluations and provide technical input on criteria, evidence, and corrective action effectiveness • Assess customer food safety and quality requirements and verify implementation • Travel domestically and internationally as required

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in food engineering, Microbiology, or a related discipline • Formal HACCP training, including practical application of Codex Alimentarius principles • Training in food safety management systems and prerequisite programs • Strong technical knowledge of food safety hazards, preventive controls, HACCP, and prerequisite programs • Working knowledge of relevant international food safety standards and guidance, including Codex Alimentarius and the IFSA World Food Safety Guidelines • Ability to interpret and apply local regulatory, corporate, and customer requirements • Ability to evaluate technical controls for design, implementation, and effectiveness • Working knowledge of food microbiology, sampling, laboratory results, validation, and verification • Ability to translate product and service specifications into quality control criteria • Strong investigation, root cause analysis, and corrective action evaluation skills • Ability to supervise technical work, coach local representatives, and develop operational competence • Effective coordination with Operations, Culinary, Maintenance, laboratories, and other specialists • Clear written and verbal communication in English and Spanish • Proficiency in technical reporting and digital tools for inspections, documentation, and corrective action tracking • At least 5 years of experience in food safety, quality assurance, or technical food operations • Demonstrated experience implementing and verifying HACCP and prerequisite programs in operational settings • Experience conducting inspections, investigating incidents or complaints, and evaluating corrective action effectiveness • Experience interpreting microbiological results and contributing to validation or shelf-life programs • Experience coordinating technical activities or supervising technical personnel • Experience in catering, food production, food service, or comparable operations is preferred • Experience working across multiple sites or with airline customer requirements is desirable • Up to 75% domestic and international travel

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement • Opportunities for growth and success • Participation in a dynamic, diverse, and multicultural environment