Food Safety & Quality Lead

Halperns Steak and Seafood•Walton, KY

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Assists the Food Safety & Quality Manager in overseeing the day-to-day plant operations of the Department and monitoring plant processes to ensure that the regulatory, business, and customers’ quality and food safety requirements are achieved and maintained. Involved in all stages of the production process, from receiving raw materials to final packaging, and works closely with other departments to identify and resolve quality issues.

Requirements

Time management skills and strong attention to detail.
Works well under pressure.
Must be highly organized and able to work effectively and efficiently in a demanding environment with flexibility to changing priorities.
Must demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills including grammar and composition; Ability to work well with others and independently
Must have the ability to listen, interpret, and determine appropriate direction based on established protocols
This position requires a professional demeanor, honesty, integrity, drive, tenacity, determination, and a willingness to learn.
Must possess and display strong analytical, critical thinking, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
High School Diploma plus 5 or more years of full-time related work experience in food service, manufacturing and/or distribution product food safety and quality experience.
In lieu of 5 years of experience, Internal candidates with extensive institutional knowledge and mastery of role's responsibilities and duties may be considered.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s Degree in Food Science, Food Safety, Biology, Chemistry, Microbiology, or related scientific fields preferred.
HACCP and/or FDA Preventive Control Qualified Individual, SQF and/or BRC Practitioner preferred.

Responsibilities

Ensure continuous improvement and adequacy of quality control systems to support regulatory, business and customer expectations.
Monitor the employees for compliance with GMPs/GWPs and company standard operating procedures.
Train the employees on company food handling policies to increase their awareness of GMPs and food safety.
Routinely monitor processing and finished product for acceptance to target or specifications.
Conduct daily, weekly and monthly internal inspections.
Report findings to relevant departments; following up on the corrective actions to ensure their timely completion.
Perform pre-operational checks (when required) and environmental swabbing.
Communicate any findings to the leadership.
Communicate effectively with different departments to report any non-Conformances e.g., product quality, GMP etc.
Perform daily quality inspections, evaluation of retained sample, random product inspection, returned product inspection, newly developed product shelf life.
Assist in the coordination of testing results involving finished products, raw materials, and packaging components.
Collect product samples as needed.
Collect product samples for micro testing.
Ensure all daily records are completed accurately and within time before submission; sign paperwork as required.
Assist in the investigation of food safety incidents and customer complaints, providing functional support to the team as required.
Help set QA/QC compliance objectives and ensure that targets are achieved.
Oversee the “On Hold” product program, including the status, release, and destruction of “Rejected” products.
Act as a backup for team members.
Performs other duties as assigned.