Food Safety Specialist

***must have experience in dairy environment****

Overview

:We are a family-owned, organic, plant-based creamery dedicated to reinventing dairy with plants, not cows. We make dairy-free yogurts, milks, creamers, sour cream, kefir-style drinks, and protein shakes using simple, organic, plant-based ingredients

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The Food Safety & Quality Assurance (FSQA) Specialist is responsible for supporting, maintaining, and improving Forager Project’s food safety and quality management system in alignment with regulatory requirements, SQF standards, customer expectations, and industry best practice

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Responsibiliti

• es:Serve as the site SQF Practitioner and support the ongoing maintenance, implementation, and improvement of the food safety and quality management syst
• em.Drive execution of key food safety programs by facilitating the Food Safety Team, HACCP Team, Recall Team, FSQA training program, monthly internal facility audits, and third-party audit preparati
• on.Act as the primary site contact for food safety and quality certification audits, including SQF, Organic, Kosher, customer, regulatory, and other third-party audi
• ts.Work closely with the Senior Manager of FSQA to maintain compliance with SQF, HACCP, GMPs, FSMA, Food Defense, Food Fraud, Organic, Kosher, customer requirements, and internal FSQA progra
• ms.Perform routine monitoring, verification, and documentation reviews to ensure compliance with food safety, quality, sanitation, and regulatory requiremen
• ts.Establish, maintain, and execute the monthly internal facility audit/self-inspection program, including documentation of findings, corrective action follow-up, and trend revi
• ew.Support the development, review, implementation, and maintenance of FSQA programs, including the Food Safety Plan, Food Defense Plan, Food Fraud Program, Recall Plan, allergen controls, sanitation programs, shipping and receiving protocols, corrective actions, and related procedur
• es.Support investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective and preventive action identification for food safety, quality, sanitation, GMP, audit, customer complaint, and regulatory issu
• es.Coordinate and maintain FSQA training records and support training for GMPs, sanitation, food safety, HACCP, allergens, food defense, food fraud, traceability, recall, and other required progra

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Required Ski

• lls:Bachelor’s degree in a science, engineering, or related technical field requi
• red.HACCP certification requi
• red.Preventive Controls Qualified Individual (PCQI) certification requi
• red.SQF Practitioner training requi
• red.3–5 years of food safety and quality assurance experience in the food manufacturing industry required (ideally in dairy/pasteurized indust
• ry).2 years of experience with non-dairy, dairy, cultured, pasteurized beverage, UHT, or aseptic filling environments is requi
• red.Strong knowledge of food safety and quality systems in a food manufacturing environm
• ent.Working knowledge of SQF or other GFSI-benchmarked audit sche
• mes.Understanding of HACCP, GMPs, sanitation, allergen control, traceability, recall, corrective actions, food defense, food fraud, and regulatory compliance requireme
• nts.Experience with root cause analysis and corrective and preventive action identificat