Food Safety and Quality Assurance Coordinator; Shift

Position: Food Safety and Quality Assurance Coordinator (Shift: 2:00pm – 10:30pm)
Location: Riding Mountain (Neepawa)

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About This Opportunity
The Food Safety and Quality Assurance Coordinator is responsible for assisting with the management and maintenance of the Food Safety and HACCP systems at CP Brandon to ensure the plant’s ability to demonstrate ongoing compliance.

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This role description reflects responsibilities and qualifications for this position. [

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Final date to receive applications and recruitment process details have been removed to focus on the job responsibilities and requirements.]

Responsibilities

Must be flexible in hours of work to accommodate position responsibilities necessary over all production shifts.

Provide Food Safety support to other members of FSQA and production.

Follows up on CFIA Standard Inspection Process (SIP) Observations to ensure action plans are effectively in place to prevent SIP Non-conformances and further observations.

Administer third party and customer food safety requirements.

Maintains Food Safety documents according to the written program, ensures that documents are reviewed/revised as scheduled.

Liaises with other stakeholders, initiates and assists in the development of Standard Operating Procedures.

Ensures that new policies, procedures and changes are implemented with appropriate documentation and training.

Assists with the management of the corrective action program to reduce the occurrence of repeat deficiencies/deviations (i.e.: follow up on non-compliances to ensure effectiveness).

Verifies that the plant is in compliance with the written program on an ongoing basis.

Provides timely and effective feedback to the FSQA Supervisor, FSQA Manager and other stakeholders as appropriate.

Liaises with the HACCP Specialist and FSQA Technicians (HACCP) to maintain document control, tracking and ensure compliance.

Maintains current knowledge of regulatory changes, new policies and industry standards.

Develops and implements training programs for employees.

Tracking and Organization of FSQA Training Programs.

Responsible as back-up support for Food Safety and Quality Assurance Department in times of absence of HACCP Specialist, and FSQA Technicians (HACCP, Kill Floor, Product Auditing).

Prevents the on-going production of non-compliant product when non-conformities are observed or identified.

Control any non-compliant product that has been produced, perform a food safety assessment and determine appropriate disposition.

Other duties that may be assigned from time to time.

Position Outcomes

Ensure ongoing regulatory and third party food safety compliance.

Skills & Experience
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science or Diploma in Food Safety/Science program or equivalent industry experience.

Strong understanding of Sanitation, SOPs, Pre-requisite Programs, HACCP, CCP’s and GMPs.

Understanding and knowledge of Alchemy Training Platform.

2-3 years’ experience in the Food industry preferred.

Required Skills And Knowledge

Demonstrated ability to follow and understand standard operating procedures, regulatory requirements, etc.

Consistently manages competing priorities in both office and production environments with professionalism and composure.

Confident in communicating effectively with hourly employees, plant supervisors, management and CFIA.

Demonstrated strong interpersonal and teambuilding skills and strong communication skills – verbal, written, listening.

Demonstrated attention to detail and ability to function in a fast-paced production environment.

Demonstrated dependability in current position (i.e.: attendance and performance).

Computer literacy with an understanding of MS Office programs – MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.

Understanding of HACCP & Food Safety will be a…