Commissary Operations Specialist

BraveFoods Global; Quezon City; On-site; PHP 279,000 - 390,600; Full time

Job summary

BraveFoods Global is seeking to fill a role focused on Daily Commissary Operations, ensuring compliance with food safety and quality standards. Responsibilities include executing production schedules, monitoring yields, and coordinating with various departments to maintain operational efficiency.

This position is essential for maintaining high-quality food production and ensuring readiness for store openings, while also addressing any risks to operations effectively.

Responsibilities

• Execute daily commissary production in accordance with recipes and schedules.
• Ensure compliance with food safety standards and quality control procedures.
• Monitor production yields and variances against standards.
• Coordinate with departments for production volume and raw material availability.
• Maintain accurate production records and documentation.

Job description

Daily Commissary Operations

• Execute, monitor, and control daily commissary production in accordance with approved recipes, production schedules, SOPs, and yield standards.
• Ensure strict compliance with batch accuracy, portioning, production sequencing, and timelines.
• Exercise authority to stop, delay, or reject production batches that do not meet approved quality, food safety, or process standards, with immediate reporting to the Commissary Manager.
• Identify production inefficiencies, deviations, or risks and implement or recommend corrective actions.
• Support stable, scalable, and disciplined commissary operations across all supported brands.

Quality Assurance & Food Safety Compliance

• Enforce daily compliance with food safety standards, sanitation protocols, and quality control procedures.
• Conduct in-process checks, finished product inspections, and retention sampling.
• Monitor and verify temperature controls, sanitation schedules, allergen controls, and traceability documentation.
• Act as first‑level enforcement of quality and food safety standards within the commissary.
• Support internal audits, external inspections, and regulatory compliance requirements.
• While Quality Assurance defines standards and audit protocols, this role is responsible for daily execution and enforcement.

Cost, Yield & Efficiency Management

• Monitor production yields, wastage, and variances against approved BOMs and cost standards.
• Coordinate with Finance, Inventory, and Warehouse teams to validate consumption reports, variance analysis, and cost data.
• Accountable for identifying recurring yield and cost variances and recommending corrective actions for management approval.
• Support initiatives that improve efficiency while protecting product quality and food safety.

Cross-Department & Store Opening Coordination

• Coordinate with Operations on production volume requirements, forecasts, and special orders.
• Work closely with Purchasing and Warehouse to ensure raw material availability, substitutions, and inventory readiness.
• Coordinate with Operations and Store Opening Teams to ensure commissary readiness for new store launches, menu rollouts, and capacity planning.
• Track commissary readiness indicators, including product availability, production capacity, quality sign‑off, and delivery timelines.
• No store opening, soft opening, or commercial launch shall proceed without commissary readiness confirmation for product availability, quality, and capacity.

Documentation, Reporting & System Compliance

• Maintain complete, accurate, and audit‑ready production records, batch logs, temperature logs, sanitation records, and traceability documentation.
• Ensure commissary SOPs, work instructions, and checklists are properly implemented and followed.
• Prepare and submit production, compliance, and variance reports to the Commissary Manager.
• Ensure documentation gaps or non‑compliance issues are escalated within the same working day.

Escalation, Risk Management & Accountability

• Escalate critical production, quality, food safety, or readiness risks to the Commissary Manager and relevant departments within the same working day.
• Support investigations of production incidents, quality deviations, or safety breaches and recommend corrective actions.
• Exercise professional judgment within approved policies and elevate decisions beyond authority limits to management.
• Protect RFCI and its brands by acting immediately on issues that pose operational, legal, or reputational risk.

Technical Support & Continuous Improvement

• Provide hands‑on technical guidance to production staff on approved procedures, quality standards, and best practices.
• Assist in controlled trials, process improvements, and new or revised product rollouts.
• Act as a subject‑matter resource for assigned product categories and commissary processes.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives that enhance efficiency, consistency, and scalability.