Food Safety & Compliance Manager- Chambersburg

About the role

You’ll serve as a key resource supporting food safety, quality, customer requirements, and compliance activities across all Dieffenbach’s locations, while maintaining a primary day-to-day focus on our Chambersburg facility. In this role, you will play a key role in our food safety programs, documentation integrity, customer support, regulatory and certification compliance, and audit readiness. This position blends hands-on verification with cross-functional collaboration, coaching, continuous improvement, and problem‑solving… all while helping ensure we consistently meet customer expectations while strengthening Dieffenbach’s culture of accountability, ownership, and excellence.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and support HACCP, Preventive Controls, GMPs, allergen control, and environmental monitoring programs.
• Keep us fully compliant with FDA, BRC, GFSI, and customer standards.
• Conduct internal audits, traceability checks, and mock recalls with confidence and calm.
• Keep documentation clean, accurate, and always audit‑ready.
• Provide oversight and support to QA Technicians — verify, guide, and help them shine.
• Train associates on GMPs, allergen control, and documentation best practices.
• Jump in with Operations, PD, Maintenance, and Warehouse to solve problems before they grow.
• Communicate trends, risks, and improvement opportunities to leadership.
• Review daily/weekly/monthly food safety and quality records.
• Track and trend data to identify risks, close gaps, and support corrective actions.
• Support customer complaint investigations and help identify root causes.
• Keep calibration, logs, and evidence files accurate and up to date.

Requirements

• Love digging into data, trends, and the “why.”
• Stay calm, organized, and detail‑focused in a fast‑paced environment.
• Communicate clearly and build strong partnerships across teams.
• Know food safety programs (HACCP, GMPs, PCQI, GFSI/BRC) and enjoy putting them into action.
• Have experience in food manufacturing and want to grow your FSQA leadership career.
• Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Microbiology, Chemistry, or similar — or equivalent experience.
• 3–5 years of QA or Food Safety experience in a food manufacturing environment.

Why Dieffenbach’s?

• Real Values: Caring for Each Other, Pursuing Excellence, Doing the Right Thing.
• Real Impact: You help protect every snack that leaves our doors.
• Real Growth: A supportive team and leadership focused on your development.
• Real Pride: You elevate the quality of products people love to eat.

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