Food Safety Coordinator at The Mennel Milling Company – Caledonia, Ohio

Title: Food Safety Coordinator

Department: Quality Assurance

Reports To: Refer to location organizational chart

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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.

JOB SUMMARY: 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 primary goals of this position are to prioritize, and drive process and food safety improvements needed to meet product and process food safety and quality specification standards. This includes but is not limited to assessing conformance to product specifications, HARPC requirements and Standard Operating Procedures.

PRIMARY WORK SHIFT: This position works Monday - Friday 8AM-5PM. May vary depending on workload.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily with or without accommodation.

• Follow all food and personal safety rules and regulations in respect to GMP’s, OSHA,HARPC, 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 CorporateEnvironmental,Health,&Safety (EHS) and attend all required training sessions. Maintain the department/facility in an everyday audit ready condition.
• Participate in monthly internal food safety inspections.
• Maintain the department/facility in an everyday audit ready condition.
• Active member of the Food Safety Team.
• Provides leadership and direction in regulatory compliance, HARPC, SPC,BRCGS, traceability, and food safety regulatory matters.
• Drives and leads the site GMP Inspection Program within the facility through partnership with cross functional departments to continuously reduce food safety risk within the plant.
• Oversees the food safety programs to ensure the facility maintains regulatory, third party and customer compliance.
• Maintains SOPs, OPLs and forms related to quality processes and maintains their point of use.
• Ensures the facility meets GMP, regulatory, sanitation and BRCGS standards.
• Develops and provides training in the areas of quality systems, food safety and BRCGS. Including overseeing the annual demonstration of ability on all employees.
• Actively participates in third party, corporate, customer, BRCGS, regulatory inspections, and monthly internal food safety audits.
• Assists with customer complaints and drives the solution through root cause and corrective action process.
• Performs food safety verification and validation activities.
• Oversees Food Safety Plan-Performsfood safety hazard analysis on any new ingredients or processes.  
• [If applicable]Verify all new ingredients are added to the Food Fraud Program, meets required specification and is safe for the customer and consumer.
• [If applicable] Leads allergen control programs including annual review, updating ingredient hazard analysis and training of inspectors.
• Back-up support for the QA Manager, Quality Supervisor[if applicable]and Sanitation Supervisor[if applicable].
• Other duties may be assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

This position may have supervisory responsibilities as determined by the QA Manager and Director of Quality Assurance.

QUALIFICATIONS:

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required to perform this job.

• A minimum of an Associate Degree or equivalent required; Bachelor’s Degree in Food Science or General Science, Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or 1-3 years related experience preferred.
• B.S. in Baking Science, Food Science, Food Chemistry, or related discipline is desired.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to lead change within the plant environment.
• Ability to work effectively with a variety of people, teams, and departments.
• Ability to be flexible with work hours, shifting priorities, and ambiguity.
• Demonstrated understanding of technology, including complexities of products, analytical equipment, and costs.
• Capable of risk management, managing issues to assure proper control, minimize losses, and provide analysis to eliminate future issues.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• This facility manufactures products that contain wheat, milk, soy, and egg allergens. Sensory is a requirement of this position.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, memos, procedures, and plans. Ability to write, complete checklists and other basic documentation and correspondence. Ability to effectively present information or data in one-on-one and small group situations to co-workers, supervisors, and managers.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

REASONING ABILITY:

Must use solid judgment when making decisions. Must have ability to quickly recognize and plan for changing work duties and events.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to perform maintenance tasks, reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, twist, crouch, or crawl, and talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds or more. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to conditions that are typical to a fast- paced manufacturing environment, including: moving equipment and machinery, dusty, hot/humid, and cold conditions; employee must be willing to work in all weather conditions, at heights, and in the presence of airborne particles. The noise level in the work environment usually requires the use of hearing protection. Work involves exposure to common wheat allergens.