Job Description:
Scarborough has an opening for a Food Safety Manager in their main office in Oxnard, CA. The right individual will be supporting various aspects of the Food Safety Department including but not limited to training and compliance, as well as overseeing Food Safety including monitoring vendors, suppliers, contractors, and outside growers. In addition manager 5 crew sanitation department.
Compensation/Salary:
DOE
Responsibilities & Duties:
- Oversee monitoring, verification, and validation activities to ensure that all products leaving the facility(s) meet food safety and quality standards
- Redesign and update plans whenever there is a change to program, process, procedure
- Develop and maintain documentation such as standard operating procedures and maintenance of manuals, policies and procedures
- Develop and provide training and maintain all training records for food safety and quality requirements
- Provide training and maintain all training records for critical food safety and quality requirements
- Conduct facility food safety audits and manage third party auditing programs
- Work with General Manager on any food safety issues or corrective actions
- Ensure that the company’s food safety procedures are followed at all times
- Ensure proper sanitation and maintenance of all facilities
Qualifications:
- Strong knowledge of HACCP, GMPs, and Organic Standards a plus
- Knowledgeable in GAP and LGMA metrics with focus in leafy green compliance
- Sanitation and cleaning chemical program
- Previous experience with Safe Quality Foods or SQF Expert Practitioner and GFSI preferred
- Internal, 2nd and 3rd party auditing programs: USDA and/or GFSI audit experience a plus
- Foreign material control
- Preventative maintenance
- Allergen management
- Process control
- Food security and defense
- Traceability and recall procedures
- Preventative maintenance
- Must have ability to make timely, independent decisions and exhibit sound and accurate judgment
- Must have ability to communicate with employees and management and to communicate changes effectively
- Ability to follow policies, procedures and instructions and to respond to management direction required
- Review for completeness and accuracy food safety program documents
- Work with customers on requests and vendor compliance
- Assists in training of staff
- Work with suppliers and contractors ensuring paperwork is complete and received on time
- Follows up on corrective actions
- Microsoft-Excel & word, outlook
- Minimum of 2 years practical experience in Food Safety or QA in the food industry preferred or qualifying course study in Food Science related field
