Regional Food Safety Supervisor

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

The Regional Food Safety Supervisor is responsible for supporting and ensuring compliance with all food safety, regulatory, customer, and GFSI requirements across multiple bakery locations. This position partners with site leadership teams to develop, implement, maintain, verify, and continuously improve food safety programs while driving a strong food safety culture throughout the organization.

The Regional Food Safety Supervisor serves as a subject matter expert for Food Safety and Preventive Controls, providing technical guidance, audit support, risk assessment, and training to ensure facilities maintain compliance with company standards, customer expectations, and applicable regulatory requirements.

• Support the development, implementation, maintenance, verification, and validation of Food Safety Plans and programs across facilities.
• Ensure compliance with FSMA Preventive Controls requirements, HACCP/HARPC programs, Food Defense, Food Fraud, Allergen Management, Environmental Monitoring, Sanitation, and Traceability programs.
• Review food safety performance metrics and identify trends, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
• Lead food safety risk assessments and support corrective and preventive action initiatives.
• Drive continuous improvement in all areas related to food safety including emerging issues and regulations, program elevation and refinement, and implementation of digital tools

• Support and prepare facilities for GFSI, customer, regulatory, and internal audits.
• Conduct regional food safety audits and assessments to verify compliance with company standards.
• Monitor corrective actions resulting from audits, inspections, complaints, and investigations.
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local regulatory requirements.

• Develop and deliver food safety training programs for plant leadership, supervisors, and frontline associates.
• Coach site Quality and Operations teams on food safety principles, root cause analysis, and preventive controls.
• Assist in qualification and development of PCQIs, HACCP Coordinators, and Food Safety Team members.

• Promote and strengthen food safety culture initiatives across all assigned facilities; work closely with leadership to design and implement food safety activities including annual Food Safety Weeks
• Lead continuous improvement projects related to food safety performance and risk reduction.
• Collaborate with Operations, Sanitation, Maintenance, Engineering, Supply Chain, and R&D teams to improve food safety systems.
• Support implementation of new products, equipment, and processes through food safety risk assessments.
• Participate in investigations involving food safety incidents, customer complaints, environmental monitoring results, and non-conformances.
• Support mock recalls, traceability exercises, and crisis management activities.
• Assist with root cause analysis, corrective actions, and effectiveness verification.

• Bachelor's Degree in Food Science, Microbiology, Chemistry, Biology, or a related scientific discipline from an accredited institution.

• 3-5 years of food safety and quality experience in food manufacturing.
• Minimum 3 years of leadership or supervisory experience.
• Multi-site food manufacturing experience preferred.
• Experience supporting GFSI-certified facilities (BRCGS, SQF, FSSC 22000, or equivalent).

• PCQI (Preventive Controls Qualified Individual)
• HACCP Certification
• Internal or Lead Auditor Certification
• Food Defense Qualified Individual
• BRCGS, SQF, or…