SQF Practitioner I

Primary Responsibility :

Assists in the development and implementation of, and is responsible for monitoring, auditing, and maintaining the SQF system, including the Food Safety Fundamentals and Food Safety Plan.

Ensures compliance to applicable food safety, customer, quality, and regulatory requirements.

What You'll Do :

• Coordinate the development, ongoing management, evaluation, and improvement related to all aspects of the SQF and prerequisite programs to ensure their effective implementation and maintenance.
• Perform daily monitoring activities on SQF programs including: Verification, Validation, Audit, and Recordkeeping to ensure facility's continuous compliance with SQF code requirements.
• Participate in food safety and other regulatory audits.
• Maintain log of required corrective actions for audits non-conformances and ensures closure of these issues
• Identifying the training needs of the organization, to include food safety, quality, health, sanitation, and good manufacturing policies and practices.

Ensure the site's training needs are met and each employee has a thorough understanding of the rules and guidelines, and an understanding of their contribution to the production, storage and distribution of safe quality food.
• Serve as Food Safety Coordinator for the site.

Facilitate HACCP (hazard analysis critical control point system) Team meetings, including preparing agenda and minutes of the meetings.

Ensures closure of food safety concerns.
• Work closely with production, warehouse, QA and other staff to ensure each member understands their personal responsibility to identify and properly report food safety concerns in accordance with programs and policies.
• Inform management of all significant non-conformities and take action to maintain the integrity of the SQF program.
• Assist Senior Management in establishing and implementing continuous improvement processes to improve the effectiveness of the SQF program.
• Other duties as requested.

What Experience and Education You Need :

• HACCP Training course completed; ASQ certification a plus (e.g.

CQA, CQE, HACCP Auditor)
• Two to four years' office experience in warehousing and/or logistics to include a minimum of one year working in a food manufacturing or distribution environment.
• Associate's degree in a science-related course of study preferred.
• Experience developing, implementing and maintaining SQF certification and HACCP plans preferred.

What Could Set You Apart :

• Ability to work in fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment.
• Ability to communicate effectively with variety of individuals
• Ability to reason, negotiate, instruct, persuade, or speak with others;
• Ability to pay close attention to detail.
• Ability to speak Spanish may be required.
• Proven ability to juggle multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Must have very strong customer focus, orientation with high sense of urgency in meeting objectives and deadlines.
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