Airline - Food Safety and Quality Manager (DFW)

Airline - Food Safety and Quality Manager (DFW)

Classification: Exempt

Salary Range: $75,000 to $95,000

Reports to: Food Safety & Compliance Manager (MIA)

Date: May 2026

Job Summary

The Food Safety and Quality Manager is responsible for inspecting food processing areas to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local governmental regulations. Must ensure the facility abides by FFG-required sanitation, safety, and quality standards. This position drives corporate policies and procedures at the local level to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, customer expectations, and third-party audit standards

Essential Responsibilities

• Have working knowledge and understanding of food-borne pathogens; methods of cleaning and sanitizing to minimize risks.
• Have a working knowledge of HACCP concepts, SDS sheets, government, and industry FSQ codes and standards.
• Familiarize yourself with company standards, practices, and procedures.
• Communicate FSQ requirements to various employee groups.
• Can motivate and build a team.
• Cultivate a Food Safety and Quality Culture among all departments
• Have good communication skills both written and oral.
• Conduct audits of vendor facilities and product ingredients.
• Conduct management training regarding FSQ requirements to ensure compliance.
• Review reports regarding regular inspections, sanitation violations, and corrective actions to resolve deficiencies; Ensure appropriate actions are taken on time.
• Support corporate efforts to facilitate uniform quality standards for food safety quality.
• Audit “Good Manufacturing Process” training and compliance for the facility.
• Oversee that FDA and USDA standard requirements are documented to maintain compliance.
• Regularly audit that sanitation requirements are maintained in all areas of the facility.
• The Food Safety and Quality Manager is responsible for inspecting food processing areas to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local governmental regulations.
• Must ensure the facility abides by FFG-required sanitation, safety, and quality standards.
• This position drives corporate policies and procedures at the local level to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, customer expectations, and third-party audit standards
• Passing and improving audit results related to Food Safety and Quality.
• Achievement of corporate objectives for corporate policies and goals.
• Consistently set expectations and hold subordinates accountable to key duties and standard.

Skills & Qualifications

• Minimum of a B.S. Degree from a 4-year university; preference will be given to candidates with degrees in Food Science, Microbiology, Biological Science, or related discipline.
• 3-5 years of experience in the food industry
• Supervisory experience preferred
• Airline catering experience preferred
• Bilingual in English/Spanish preferred
• HACCP certified, SFQ Practitioner, ServSafe Manager and Procter, FSPCA certification preferred (must achieve certification within 6 months of start date).

Supervisory Responsibilities

This position may have supervisory responsibilities.

Work Environment

This job operates in a food manufacturing environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment.

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 talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit and stand for long periods and reach with hands and arms.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time exempt position in a 24/7/365 work environment.

Travel Requirements

About 10% travel.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Benefits

Flying Food Group, LLC offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity plans, flexible spending accounts, employee assistance program, commuter benefit, retirement program 401(k), tuition reimbursement, MetLife- Legal Program, and pet insurance.