Internship - Food Quality

Description

**Description:** ---------------- Areas, one of the **world’s leading providers of catering services in the travel industry**, with over 20,000 employees, serves 350 million customers annually across its more than 2,000 establishments in 11 countries across Europe, the USA, Mexico, and Chile. We are seeking a student to carry out **Food Quality internships** in our central kitchen located in **Arganda del Rey (28500-Madrid)**. The location will soon move to IFEMA (Madrid). Would you like to advance your professional career at a global industry leader? Would you like to join our Areas Internship Program? If you are a **motivated, dynamic individual passionate about food quality**, apply now for this internship and we will contact you. Reporting to the Quality Manager, the intern’s mission will be to ensure compliance with food quality and safety standards, as well as provide technical support on hygiene matters at the production center or central kitchen. **Key Responsibilities:** **1. Documentation and Regulatory Support:** * Assist in updating and maintaining documentation for the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) system, ensuring alignment with legislative updates. * Support the development and review of documentation related to production processes, including: * Review of production and final product technical specifications. * Monitoring shelf-life studies for products. * Review of self-monitoring records. * Validation of production processes across various recipes. **2. Hygiene and Good Practices** * Verify staff compliance with Good Hygiene Practices in the production area. * Provide support in tracking incidents related to pest control. * Participate in supervising hygiene plans and verifying their proper implementation. **3. Audits, Inspections, and Analytical Control** * Assist in preparing and executing checklists for Conformity Audits, as well as exporting data into Excel for subsequent follow-up. * Manage downloading, archiving, and processing in Excel of analytical reports issued by external laboratories. * Support preparation and archiving of documentation for Health Authority inspections, including scanning inspection reports and updating corresponding records. **WHAT WE OFFER:** * Internship opportunity at a leading company in food services and food quality and safety methodologies. * Full-time internship agreement. * **Training and development plan.** * Attractive **financial support** for your studies. *Areas is committed to building a balanced organization from a gender perspective, socially responsible, and reflective—where possible—of the local community it serves. Our equality, diversity, and inclusion policy applies to all individuals throughout the entire employee lifecycle—from recruitment through professional development—regardless of gender, nationality, race, belief, sexual orientation, and/or disability.* **Requirements:** --------------- * Studies in Biology, Health Sciences, Food Technology, or related fields. * **Own vehicle mandatory** to commute to the workplace. * Availability to undertake a **minimum six-month university-enterprise internship agreement**. * Immediate availability to start and commitment to **full-time hours**. * Knowledge of the **quality** and food hygiene field.