Hygiene Executive | voco™ Amritsar

About us:

At voco®, we've created a hotel brand that gives people a different choice. Hotels to count on but different enough to be fun. Unstuffy hotels, where people feel comfortable to relax, and just get on with relaxing. Our new family of hotels are connected by their own sense of style and individual character – and that's something we make the most of. Finding the perfect mix of reliability and new experiences. Because we believe that when you respect individuality life gets interesting.

Joboverview

Responsible for taking care of entire FSMS (Food Safety Management System)in the hotel, with regard to food safety. Ensuring the compliances to all the local /IHG food safety audits throughout the year.

At voco we look for people who are dynamic, confident and ambitious; people who excel in their role and help our guests succeed too.

Duties and responsibilities

Financial returns:

• Handles administrative works and keeps up-dated files on the following Hygiene matters:
  • Statutory audits budget
  • External lab expenses
  • Other operational expenses
• Determines the minimum and maximum stocks and controls the par-stocks of all material and equipment
• Liaise with the Purchasing Manager and suppliers for any purchase needed for the Food Safety operation
• Conducts inventories in coordination with employees of the accounting division
• Manages all functions of the Food Safety operation to achieve the optimum departmental costs
• Keeps aware of trends, systems, practices and equipment in Food Safety Management through trade literature, hotel show and site visits

People:

• Conducts kitchen inspections on the personal, environmental and food hygiene conditions and provides a corrective action plan and keep record on findings.
• Check daily cleaning status in kitchen with respective kitchen managers and stewarding
• Knowledgeable to decision and problem solving skills
• Works closely with the training manager to conduct food handlers training sessions.

Guest experience:

• Oversees the preparation of kitchen equipment for use
• To perform microbiological analysis of food & beverages, hand, linen equipment, swab testing and falling aerial count check
• Checking that all food items for storage are covered, dated and labelled
• Inspect food holding and transport equipment.
• Conduct regular spot checks on food items received for temperature abuse
• Co-ordinates microbial food tests to kitchen and laboratory in case of new products, supplies and suspected food borne illness complaints.

Responsible business:

• Maintains documentation on all hygiene and food safety standards throughout the operation.
• Liaisons with pest control company and housekeeping for any pest issues in operations and reviews the pest control performance
• Conduct Hygiene audit of all kitchen associates and provides feedback
• Maintains records of food safety and Hygiene related forms, checks and audits
• Conducts Vendor inspection in co-ordination with purchase department.
• Maintains and makes improvement to hygiene standards.
• Accountability
• Number of employees supervised –
• Direct    All Kitchen and Service Staff.
• Indirect    Food Stores, Receiving, HK, HR, Engineering, Purchase.
• Annual Operating Profit/Payroll Budget – Department Budget and Headcounts
• Key Metrics –
• Department Budget
• Food Cost
• Qualifications and requirements
• Degree or Vocational Certificate in Microbiology/Food Technology