Food Safety Coordinator

Basic Function

The primary responsibility of this position is to ensure the safety, integrity, quality, and legality of all products shipped and processed at the facility. Assist in ensuring compliance with all food processing regulatory and customer requirements. Ensure overall effectiveness and efficiency of all food safety programs.

Responsibilities

• Assist in keeping all company programs in compliance with all food processing regulations and maintaining all necessary food processing certifications.
• Maintain GFSI, FSMA, GMP, Food Defense, and HACCP programs to provide a risk-based approach to food safety with the guidance of the FSQA Manager.
• Lead internal audit program, and assist in all audits as needed.
• Maintain the lab tracker
• Work with maintenance/production on all equipment calibrations, maintain register
• Absorb and manage the hold program
• Absorb and assist with all onboarding and training to GMPs and SVWG FSQA standards
• Lead Food Safety Committee and is responsible for scheduling and holding meetings as required.
• Trend food safety concerns and provide actionable information to necessary parties.
• Contribute to CAPA conclusion and resolution working hand in hand with the FSQA Manager, using the 5 whys method
• Manage all day to day paperwork that gets submitted from the plant to the FSQA dept
• Revise SOP’s and work instructions and assist in training employees on them as necessary.
• Walk the plant daily to engage with different departments and help to address their concerns
• Works with relevant staff to complete all food safety questionnaires from customers as well as responding to customer complaints.
• Adhere to all safety rules and programs

Skills & Specification

• Effective planning & organizational skills
• Highly motivated, self-directed & results driven
• Effective report and program writing skills
• Ability to read and interpret regulatory and scientific documents
• Ability to work independently and clearly communicate direction to teams
• Ability to meet tight and changing production deadlines
• Leadership, time-management and problem-solving skills
• Must be a team player, show initiative and be able to interact professionally with all levels
• Demonstrated high work standards – holds to high standard of quality and delivery
• Must fully embrace safety & regulatory compliance guidelines
• Tree nut and tree nut industry experience preferred
• Bi-lingual English Spanish a plus
• Knowledge of current Food Safety Regulations
• Equipment And Software Required To Perform The Job: Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook, PowerPoint & Excel)

Physical Demands

• Sit, talk, and/or hear
• Stand
• Use hands to finger, handle, and/or feel
• Lift and/or move up to 25 pounds
• Comfortable in a fast paced working environment

Work Environment

• Noise level in the work environment is quiet to moderate