About the Role
Kaiten Japanese Dining and Hospitality UK Ltd is looking for an organised, detail-focused and quality-driven Food Safety and Quality Coordinator to support high standards of food hygiene, product quality and operational compliance across its restaurant operations.
The successful candidate will monitor food-safety procedures, review kitchen and storage practices, maintain compliance records, support staff training and help ensure that ingredients and prepared dishes are handled consistently and safely.
Working closely with kitchen teams, restaurant supervisors, procurement staff and suppliers, the coordinator will help maintain reliable standards across food preparation, storage, temperature control, allergen management and customer-facing service.
This role is suitable for a hospitality or food-quality professional with practical experience in food safety, quality assurance or restaurant operations who is ready to take greater ownership of compliance and quality-control activities.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor day-to-day food-safety and quality procedures
- Support implementation of food-safety management systems
- Maintain food hygiene and quality-control documentation
- Review kitchen preparation and storage practices
- Conduct regular hygiene and cleanliness checks
- Monitor refrigeration and freezer temperatures
- Review hot-holding and chilled-food controls
- Maintain accurate temperature-monitoring records
- Check food-delivery temperatures and condition
- Verify that ingredients are stored correctly
- Monitor use-by and best-before dates
- Support stock rotation using FIFO principles
- Check labelling and date-coding practices
- Monitor raw and ready-to-eat food separation
- Support prevention of cross-contamination
- Review cleaning and sanitising procedures
- Monitor handwashing and personal-hygiene standards
- Conduct routine kitchen and storage-area inspections
- Record non-conformities and required corrective actions
- Follow up on outstanding food-safety issues
- Escalate significant concerns to restaurant management
- Maintain allergen information for menu items
- Verify that allergen records remain accurate
- Support allergen-awareness procedures
- Review ingredient changes that may affect allergen information
- Assist staff with customer allergen enquiries
- Monitor preparation of sushi and other high-risk foods
- Support safe handling of fish, seafood and raw ingredients
- Check thawing, preparation and storage procedures
- Monitor buffet and conveyor-belt food-display practices
- Review time and temperature controls for displayed food
- Conduct quality checks on finished dishes
- Monitor consistency in presentation and portion standards
- Review customer feedback relating to food quality
- Investigate recurring complaints or quality concerns
- Support investigations into suspected food-safety incidents
- Maintain records of corrective and preventive actions
- Coordinate with suppliers regarding product-quality issues
- Check supplier documentation and product specifications
- Support approved-supplier monitoring
- Review food deliveries for quality and specification compliance
- Assist with supplier performance reviews
- Support traceability and product-recall procedures
- Maintain records for ingredients and batch information
- Assist with internal food-safety audits
- Prepare documentation for external inspections
- Support restaurant teams during environmental-health visits
- Develop and update food-safety checklists
- Support staff training and refresher sessions
- Promote continuous improvement in food-quality standards
Qualifications and Experience
- Degree, diploma or professional qualification in Food Safety, Food Science, Hospitality, Catering or a related subject
- At least two years of experience in food safety, quality assurance, catering or restaurant operations
- Practical knowledge of food-hygiene procedures
- Understanding of HACCP principles
- Experience completing food-safety checks and records
- Knowledge of safe food-storage practices
- Understanding of temperature-control requirements
- Familiarity with allergen-management procedures
- Experience identifying and recording non-conformities
- Strong attention to detail
- Good analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to maintain accurate compliance documentation
- Strong organisational and time-management skills
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines
- Confidence communicating with kitchen and restaurant teams
- Strong written and verbal English-language skills
- Ability to explain food-safety requirements clearly
- Good knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook
- Ability to work effectively in a busy restaurant environment
- Willingness to work occasional evenings or weekends when required
- Right to work in the United Kingdom
Preferred Experience
- Level 3 Food Safety qualification or equivalent
- HACCP certification
- Experience in Japanese, Asian or seafood-focused restaurants
- Knowledge of sushi preparation and raw-fish handling
- Experience with buffet or self-service food operations
- Familiarity with UK Food Standards Agency guidance
- Knowledge of food-allergen legislation
- Experience supporting environmental-health inspections
- Familiarity with food-safety auditing
- Experience in supplier-quality management
- Knowledge of traceability and recall procedures
- Experience with restaurant quality-management systems
- Familiarity with stock-control and inventory processes
- Experience delivering food-safety training
- Knowledge of cleaning-chemical and sanitation controls
Pay: £26,000.00-£36,000.00 per year
Work Location: In person
