Quality Assurance

**We are looking for our next Quality Assurance & Food Safety Specialist. Could it be you?**

The Quality Assurance & Food Safety Specialist on the Food Service team serves as the primary leader for all Food Service Concepts’ food safety programs; collaborating with cross-functional team members, vendors, and regulatory agencies to ensure that the safe food preparation standards and requirements of M&M Food Market / Parkland Corp. are upheld.

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**Responsibilities for the role include but are not limited to**:

- Contributes to development and execution of product food safety and quality programs to support the organization’s goals of operational excellence, customer/client satisfaction, financial performance, and market leadership.
- Responsible for developing and on-going maintenance of the Food Safety Plan. Must be able to identify deficiencies and implement new strategies.
- Ensures all HACCP, GMP’s, sanitation preventive controls, supply chain preventive controls and all other prerequisite food safety standards are met according to governing regulatory bodies and corporate requirements.
- Collaborate with Operations and Facilities on action plans for continuous improvement.
- Provide support and expertise to retail stores and internal departments for resolution of issues including health department inquiries and concerns, and other emergency situations as may be needed.
- Maintain current and accurate nutritional and allergen information for menu items.
- Support Product Recalls impacting Food Service Operations.
- Monitor food supplier documentation compliance and ensure QA systems are current.
- Conduct periodic specification adherence audits (either internally or via third party laboratories) to ensure products are compliant.
- Individual Contributor, but may closely manage many outside vendors and/or projects with significant impact on the business.

**So, are you our next Quality Assurance and Food Safety Specialist? You could be if you have**:

- University Degree/College Diploma or equivalent in Environmental Health, Public Health, Biology, or other hard science equivalent.
- Experience in the food service industry with responsibility in food safety, training, and development of written materials.
- Knowledge and understanding of retail food safety principals and regulations
- Ability to efficiently organize and manage multiple projects to on-time completion with mínimal supervision.
- **Good Presentation Skills**: Ability to make clear and concise business presentations for executive and senior management.
- **Communication Skills**: Provide actionable reporting of projects and program status via written reports as well as ability to critique and provide feedback on food safety and sanitation performance in a non-threatening and coaching manner.
- **Interpersonal Skills**: demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and build productive relationships with various groups to include internal risk management, restaurant operators, research & development team, vendors, and regulatory officials.

Please note: This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.

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A lot has changed over 40 years of helping customers across Canada, but at the heart of what M&M Food Market does, is our people. Whether shaping the direction of the business from head office or offering customers exceptional service every day in our stores, we are successful because of our amazing team.

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**We are constantly evolving**. We believe change is a good thing. Whether it’s venturing into new markets or reinventing our current strategies, our passion leads us to new and exciting opportunities that further strengthen our position in the marketplace.

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