Nutrition Technician

Description

**Position:** Nutrition Technician **Workplace:** Food and Nutrition Unit (UAN) – Hospital **Shift Schedule:** 12x36 **Job Summary:** Support hospital meal production activities, ensuring compliance with quality standards, food safety, and good handling practices. Assist the nutritionist in supervising UAN processes, guaranteeing 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; * Check adherence to prescribed diets; * Perform food quality control (temperature, expiration date, storage, and hygiene); * Implement and monitor Good Handling Practices and health 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 an advantage; * 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 allowance/food voucher, transportation voucher, medical assistance, among others). Our job openings are open to attract diverse talents across all ethnicities, genders, ages, sexual orientations, disabilities, cultures, and other dimensions. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are at our core! Minimum Education Level: Technical Course Market-competitive benefits package