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Unit Food Safety Specialist - Temporary

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  • Almancil, Faro, Portugal
  • Food & Restaurant

Job Description

  • Job ID: 374572

  • Date posted: 05/11/2026

    • Who you are

    • Strong knowledge of food safety legislation and regulatory requirements (HACCP)
    • Proven experience managing Food Safety Management Systems
    • Solid background in internal and external reviews and ability to conduct, document and follow up internal reviews
    • Risk assessment, hazard analysis, and non-conformance management
    • Leadership experience promoting a strong food safety culture
    • Incident management, root cause analysis, recall coordination and action plans implementation
    • Continuous improvement mindset with KPI monitoring and data-driven decisions
    • Excellent communication skills with teams, suppliers, and authorities.

    A day in your life with us

    • Ensure that documents related to Food Safety are updated for use and / or consultation by IF co-workers:
    allergen tables, legal documents, etc.
    • Ensure that legal documentation is updated, implemented and displayed in customer areas.
    • Check and ensure compliance of temperatures and cleaning records (internal and external)
    • Check implementation of temperatures, operations and cleaning checklists, deploy corrective actions and /
    or improvements whenever applicable
    • Ensure the verification that food products are compliant, including correct labelling, valid BBDs, and
    appropriate packaging conditions.
    • Verify analytical bulletins and implementation of corrective actions
    • Verify of product traceability and product samples
    • Ensure On-job training of IF employees
    • Register the non-conformities to suppliers according to processes in use
    • Support on the implementation of action plans resulting from FS and certification audits, and status
    verification of corrective actions and opportunities for improvement
    • Implement and verify new procedures related to the areas of FS
    • Update of the EMM's calibration plan
    • Promote and / or perform internal audits of Food Safety
    • Monitor cleaning, maintenance and / or pest control processes and ways of working, whenever applicable.

    Together as a team

    Thanks to us, customers, co-workers and people at home can have a better everyday life through food that’s good for both people and planet. Together we serve more than 660 million customers yearly at the IKEA restaurants worldwide, underlining our Scandinavian heritage by offering a modern taste of Sweden. We also offer a variety of foods in our bistros and in the “Swedish Food market”. We are a diverse group of people who all live by the motto: Laughter is brightest in the place where the food is!








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