Food Safety Assurance Specialist

Food Safety Assurance Specialist

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At Mennel, we believe in doing right and bringing our best to our people who are helping to feed the world. We promote teamwork and recognize the individual contributions everyone plays in the overall success of the company.

In this role, you will help sustain Mennel’s tradition of excellence established in 1886 as well as support our food safety programs and mission to reliably deliver superior quality, uniformity, and service. The purpose of this role is to help ensure full compliance with all applicable regulations and standards as well as to achieve Mennel’s goal of Operational Excellence. One of the ways this will be accomplished is by conducting food safety related audits at all The Mennel Milling Company production locations to ensure the production of safe food for humans and animals.

This position will sustain the Mission and Motto and Food Safety and Quality Statement of the Mennel Milling Company.

This position works Monday through Friday 8AM - 5PM. Will vary, depending on workload. This position can accommodate a remote (home) working location as this role will require significant travel (greater than 75%) to the food production facilities.

• Follow all food and personal safety rules and regulations in respect to GMP’s, OSHA, HACCP, the Global Food Safety Initiative, the US FDA Food Safety Modernization Act as stated in the FS&Q Statement, and sanitation guidelines as set forth by the company as listed in Corporate Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) and attend all required training sessions. Maintain the department/facility in an everyday audit ready condition.
• Schedules and conducts internal audits to assure consistent application of Mennel’s Food Safety, Quality & Regulatory programs across all human and animal food production sites.
• Schedules and conducts internal reviews of Food Safety Plans, Food Defense Plans, and Environmental Monitoring Programs to assure compliance with food safety regulations across all human and animal food production sites.
• Serve as the primary contact for any applicable 3rdparty, customer audits, or federal/state/local agency audits, including unannounced visits.
• Assist the Area Managers in the response to audit activities and ensure the required CAPAs are completed in a successful and timely fashion.
• Serve as the key corporate resource to the human and animal food production sites in maintaining compliance with all Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) and Food Safety standards, including providing guidance on the implementation of all necessary programs, policies, and SOP’s.
• Active contributor within the Food Safety, Quality & Regulatory team, acting as a resource to help improve the strategies, policies, and procedures of the program.
• This position may require additional responsibilities as defined by the Director of Food Safety, Quality & Regulatory.
• Ability to travel up to >75%
• Other duties may be assigned.

This position has no supervisory duties.

• A Bachelor’s degree in food science, chemistry, quality assurance, manufacturing, operations, or related discipline is preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in a food/beverage or consumer goods manufacturing environment is required. Experience in Quality Assurance, EHS or Regulatory Compliance is preferred.
• Detailed level of understanding of Food Safety & Quality Standards, Food Safety Plans, Preventative Controls and Prerequisite Programs is required.
• Must be able to complete PCQI training certification.
• Demonstrated ability working with GFSI auditing requirements is desired.
• Active Third-Party GFSI Auditor Certification is preferred. Those with inactive certifications will be considered.
• Ability to train others on Food Safety & Quality standards.
• Must have excellent technical writing, speaking, and presentation skills.
• Must possess excellent computer skills.
• Must have solid communication skills and be able to interact and productively communicate with all levels of the organization.
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