Food Safety

Job Purpose:

The Food Safety & HACCP Coordinator is responsible for monitoring, maintaining, and improving food safety and quality systems in efforts to meet or exceed regulatory and customer expectations regarding food safety and quality. This role is responsible for food safety activities within the operations.

Food Safety

• Responsible for leading the Food Safety team, scheduling and managing monthly meetings, managing monthly inspections of facility and working with all departments to develop and verify corrective and preventative actions for any food safety issues identified during inspections.
• Responsible for food safety functions including maintenance of food safety systems (including Food Safety Plan), food safety forms, maintaining database on food safety activities, investigation of foreign material, and corrective actions.
• Validate in-process testing is completed in all areas to ensure food safety.
• Update internal databases regarding food safety and quality activities.
• Maintain reports on all incoming materials, daily test results and outgoing shipments using the batch system and LIMS
• Create flow diagrams for each process in the facility and update as necessary.
• Maintain and update as necessary Hazard Analysis of ingredients and processes.
• Perform HACCP reviews for change controls, new products and new equipment.

Participate in resolving customer product concerns

• Work with production to identify root cause and resolve quality and food safety related issues.
• Initiate hold process for off specification products and work in process.
• Communicate work status to all affected internal parties.

Audit Compliance and Monitoring

• Ensure compliance with quality assurance and control programs through internal audits. Develop and verify corrective and preventative actions.
• Assist QA manager in the preparation for customer and regulatory audits.
• Dispose of samples and held materials following procedures.
• Enforce Blommer standards from raw material procurement through customer delivery.
• Participate in HACCP audits and other quality audits as needed.

Update Quality Assurance Manager

• Provide ongoing updates to QA Manager on product observations, analytical results, and quality issues.
• Operate within the Blommer core values of respect and care for others

Other duties as required.

Physical Requirements:

• General office environment with majority of time using computer
• Regular exposure to plant floor, including noise, dust and variation in temperature (hot/cold)
• Able to remain in a stationary position (sitting or standing) for prolonged periods of time
• Regularly required to bend, stoop, and reach
• Able to observe and detect issues with product color and fineness
• Ability to walk for prolonged periods of time and occasionally ascend/descend stair

Skills and Work Experience Requirements:

• Five (5+) years experience in food manufacturing or laboratory environment
• Comprehensive knowledge of food safety systems and requirements for HACCP, FSMA, allergen and GMPs with a proven track record of implementation and enforcement of such programs.
• HACCP and GFSI audit experience
• Experience with internal and external auditing procedures
• Knowledge of FSMA
• Knowledge of SQF/BRC food safety standard
• Able to read and write English to perform tasks successfully
• Must have strong verbal and written communication skills
• Organizational skills are essential
• Must be able to taste and consume chocolate and related products (allergens in facility = milk and soy)
• Proficient computer skills with Microsoft Office suite, and familiarity with warehouse and laboratory information management systems (LIMS), and enterprise resource management systems (ERP)
• SAP knowledge is an asset
• Expected to identify, communicate/escalate and problem-solve as issues arise

Education:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in related field; food science preferred
• HACCP Certified, PCQI preferred

Salary Range:

• $58,000 to $72,000