Lead, F&B Safety & Sanitation

The function of this role is to ensure the company complies with all internal food and beverage injury prevention and external Public Health and Vessel Sanitation Program requirements. This Lead role is responsible for coordinating the execution of the company’s Public Health Program and ensuring the company’s public health standards are met and/or exceeded onboard. He/she oversees all initiatives related to food safety and hygiene standard in Food and Beverage areas, audits all cleaning and sanitation procedures to ensure all F&B venues are following both company and international sanitation standards by following public health guidelines, and develops food safety and public health training onboard for F&B employees continuously.

This Position will aid the Onboard Sanitation Controllers onboard with Public Health policies and implementation of sanitation programs including Outbreak Prevention Plan (OPP).  They will and must provide strategic and operational direction and leadership in all F&B areas in regards to administering onboard food safety and sanitation program.  This position maximizes its time extensively in support of ship’s Food and Beverage management by either remote communication or onboard visits to conduct training, scheduled and unscheduled reviews to ensure compliance with all SOPs and regulations.

 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

All duties and responsibilities are to be performed in accordance with Royal Caribbean “The ROYAL Way” Standards, SQM and Shoreside SOPs, all regulatory Public Health agencies, and HACCP guidelines, environmental, and workplace safety policies and procedures.  Each shoreside employee may be required to perform all functions in various food and beverage service venues throughout the ship during visits.  

• Fulfill food and beverage safety and public health analytical tasks given by supervisor for review of operational efficiencies projects and can determine and drive analytical needs based on project scope understanding.
• Will support team in F&B tactics, strategies, and solution improvements for injury reduction or public health findings and is able to build into a workplan for shipboard crew.
• Partners with Hotel Operations, Marine, Shoreside F&B Operations, and any other department within RCCL to support meeting all public health standards and injury prevention strategy.
• Follows, encourages, and lives by venue standards as illustrated in company and VSP SOPs.
• Manages FBPH schedule to ensure maximum coverage to vessels in US Homeports and newbuilds.
• Is able to cohesively review new chemical, equipment, or other products while understanding current shipboard operations to support cost savings or increased functionality of cleaning products or procedures with shoreside team review.
• Responsible for giving guidance and providing detailed action plans for F&B Directors and their sanitation controllers when ship is in need of direction, reviewing final plan with F&B Director.
• Provides daily support for the ships in need as well as daily support by phone conversations to ensure ships are in compliance.
• Consistently reviews current standards and suggests improvements. Takes an innovative approach to current policies to find efficiencies and best practices for a safer, healthier onboard workplace.
• Shares, writes, and logs best practices fleetwide and with shore side management team.
• Evaluate equipment challenges that effect safety or public health procedures and follow the process to mitigate issue.
• Develops training and provides guidance to shipboard restaurant management and staff. May travel to vessels underperforming to support onboard training.
• Monitors all regulatory Public Health standards in all areas of preparation including service and storage areas.  Conducts or virtually hosts regular simulated Public Health reviews and may make unannounced onboard inspections.