Food Safety Compliance & Culture Manager

Major Duties and Responsibilities

• Develops and executes a comprehensive food safety culture program that promotes, awareness, accountability, and continuous improvement across the organization.
• Assess food safety culture maturity through surveys, audits, and behavioral observations, Build awareness, training and education programs to drive cultural and behavioral changes.
• Develops and implements internal auditing programs to drive continuous improvement of Quality and Food Safety programs. Design and execute corporate audit program for food safety compliance and continuous improvement. Ensure auditors are calibrated and have competency to be effective in driving continuous improvement. Lead team of QA Audit Supervisors as a calibration tool.
• Lead risk-based assessments of food safety plans and ensure appropriate preventive controls are identified. Provide project support for Sanitation initiatives, Foreign material initiatives, and Environmental monitoring assessments.
• Verify environmental monitoring programs for high-risk areas, review site zoning, swabbing plans, testing, trending, escalation rules and sanitary design considerations.
• Report metrics related to supported programs and engage in continuous improvement activities.

Education and Experience

• B.S. degree in Microbiology / Food Science / Chemistry or related area and at least 5+ years industry food safety experience required.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in a food manufacturing environment including HACCP team experience.
• HACCP certification; SQF/BRC training, and Certification as Preventive Controls Qualified Individual required.
• Internal auditor certification is a plus.
• Minimum 3 years of people management experience (proven track record of leading teams - dirct reports and leading without authority) preferred.

Knowledge and Skills

• Must demonstrate strong problem solving and project management skills including root cause analysis, risk assessment and corrective/preventive action.
• People leadership and ability to influence cross functionally are critical.
• Experience building auditing programs, designing QMS systems, and utilizing technology such as SharePoint is preferred.