NUTRITION TECHNICIAN

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Job Summary: Support hospital meal production, ensuring quality, food safety, and good handling practices, while assisting the nutritionist in supervising UAN processes. Key Highlights: 1. Support for hospital meal production 2. Focus on food quality and safety 3. Assistance in supervising UAN processes **Position:** Nutrition Technician **Work Location:** Food and Nutrition Unit (UAN) – Hospital **Shift Schedule:** 12x36 **Job Summary:** Support hospital meal production activities, ensuring compliance with quality standards, food safety regulations, and good handling practices. Assist the nutritionist in supervising UAN processes, ensuring proper menu execution and meeting patients' nutritional needs. **Main Responsibilities:** * Monitor meal production (hospital diets, meals for staff and companions); * Verify and control pre-preparation, preparation, and food distribution; * Confirm adherence to prescribed diets according to nutritional prescriptions; * Perform food quality control (temperature, expiration date, storage, and hygiene); * Implement and monitor Good Handling Practices and sanitary surveillance regulations; * Assist in sample collection and completion of control records and spreadsheets; * Support inventory management, goods receipt, and verification; * Guide operational staff on correct hygiene and handling procedures; * Monitor cleaning of utensils, equipment, and facilities; * Support the nutritionist in audits, training, and UAN administrative routines. **Requirements:** * Completed Technical Course in Nutrition; * Active registration with the professional council (CRN – as per region); * Prior experience in a hospital UAN or industrial kitchen is preferred; * Knowledge of Good Food Handling Practices and sanitary legislation. **Behavioral Competencies:** * Organization and attention to detail; * Proactivity and sense of responsibility; * Teamwork; * Effective communication; * Operational agility and discipline. **We Offer:** * Market-competitive salary; * Comprehensive benefits package (meal/voucher allowance, transportation voucher, health insurance, among others). Our job openings are open to diverse talents of all ethnicities, genders, ages, sexual orientations, disabilities, cultures, and other dimensions. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are embedded in our DNA! Minimum Education Level: Technical Course Market-competitive benefits package