HACCP Coordinator (1143923)

Location: Lake Crystal, MN

About the Role

If you’re passionate about food safety, thrive on the plant floor, and want a role where your work directly protects product integrity every single day, this opportunity is calling your name. As the HACCP Coordinator, you become the backbone of a USDA-regulated food manufacturing operation — the person who ensures every process, every record, and every decision meets the highest standards of safety and compliance. This is a hands-on role with real influence, real visibility, and a real pathway to leadership.

Responsibilities

• Maintain, update, and verify HACCP plans, flow diagrams, hazard analyses, and prerequisite programs
• Lead daily CCP/PC verification, record review, corrective action validation, and trend analysis
• Serve as the plant’s HACCP and USDA compliance expert during FSIS, customer, and GFSI audits
• Conduct internal audits (HACCP, GMP, sanitation, allergen, environmental) and drive corrective actions
• Support USDA compliance: pre-op inspections, operational sanitation, documentation accuracy
• Partner with production to ensure GMP adherence, hygienic zoning, and proper handling of RTE poultry
• Lead or support investigations for deviations, foreign material, environmental positives, or process failures
• Deliver training for HACCP, GMPs, allergen control, sanitation, and food safety culture
• Review and approve labels, formulations, and process changes for food safety impact
• Support environmental monitoring: swabbing, trending, corrective actions
• Participate in equipment and process validation for thermal processing, cooling, and canning

Requirements

• High School Diploma (degree a plus)
• HACCP certification or ability to obtain within 90 days
• 2+ years food manufacturing experience (USDA RTE protein preferred but not required)
• 1+ year working knowledge of GMPs, CCPs, Preventive Controls, thermal processing, sanitation, environmental monitoring
• Ability to interpret USDA/FSIS regulations and customer specifications
• Strong documentation, organization, and communication skills
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, high-volume plant environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in USDA RTE canned meats or shelf-stable protein
• Exposure to SQF, BRC, or other GFSI schemes
• Background in high-care or high-risk production environments

Benefits

• Competitive salary: $55,000–$75,000, depending on experience
• Relocation assistance to Lake Crystal, MN
• Strong internal promotion culture — clear advancement into QA Supervisor, Food Safety Manager, or SQF Practitioner roles
• Full benefits package
• Stability and growth within a respected protein manufacturer

Pay

$55,000.00 USD Annually - $75,000.00 USD Annually

Why This Role Is Exciting

This is your chance to step into a role where your expertise truly matters. You’ll be the guardian of food safety for a major protein operation — with the support, training, and career path to grow into higher-level QA and Food Safety leadership roles. If you want a role that blends technical challenge, regulatory responsibility, and daily plant-floor engagement, this is the opportunity to seize.