Food Safety Assistant
Listed on 2026-07-01
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Manufacturing / Production
Regulatory Compliance Specialist
Position Overview
The Food Safety Assistant supports daily food safety operations through documentation management, GMP monitoring, pre-operational inspections, sanitation verification, audit support, and production floor activities.
This is not a large corporate QA environment with narrowly defined responsibilities. We are looking for someone who is flexible, organized, resourceful, and comfortable adapting to changing priorities in a small business setting.
This role combines office-based documentation work with active production floor inspection and support responsibilities. Some days are heavily compliance and paperwork focused, while others require significant floor presence and operational support.
This is a support role that works closely with the Food Safety Manager on daily operations, delegated projects, organization, follow-through, and department support needs.
Daily pre-operational inspections begin at 5:00 AM prior to production startup.
Key Responsibilities- Conduct daily pre-operational inspections and sanitation verification
- Monitor GMPs, employee practices, and operational risks
- Maintain organized and audit-ready food safety records
- Review logs, temperatures, and production documentation
- Support HACCP, SSOP, GMP, and FSIS compliance activities
- Communicate sanitation issues with 3rd party sanitation management
- Assist with audits, reports, scorecards, labels, and spec sheets
- Help track follow-up items, recurring issues, and department projects
- Maintain active food safety presence on the production floor
- Highly organized and detail-oriented
- Dependable and consistent
- Comfortable balancing office and production floor responsibilities
- Resourceful and willing to research to problem solve
- Able to adapt and shift priorities as operational needs change
- Strong communication and follow-through skills
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced small business environment
- Willing to ask questions instead of guessing
- Able to work independently and as part of a team
- Food manufacturing, meat processing, QA, or food safety experience preferred
- HACCP, GMP, SSOP, USDA, or FSIS experience preferred
- Audit, sanitation, or compliance documentation experience is a plus
- Strong organizational and computer skills required
- Full-time position
- Monday through Friday
- 8-hour shifts
- Daily start time of 5:00 AM
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