Food Safety Compliance Specialist
Shamrock Foods Company

This position is responsible for maintaining all aspects of quality assurance and food safety to ensure proper, safe, and exceptional operation of the facility. Performs a variety of professional administrative tasks in support of the organization's compliance function. The Compliance Specialist serves as subject matter expert (SME) to ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, and local, food safety regulations in addition to maintaining relationships with agency representatives.

Essential Duties:

• Plans and implements traceability testing and monitoring
• Identifies gaps in documentation, or potential areas of non-compliance, and suggests resolutions.
• Responds to standard requests for documentation or records based on established guidelines
• Applies proper acceptance/rejection criteria and marks items with details such as grade and acceptance or rejection status
• Ensures the facility meets all required food safety laws, regulations, and corporate policies
• Maintains food safety by always upholding proper sanitary condition, including allergen control and pest control guidelines
• Works closely with 3rd party auditing companies and divisional assets to ensure company food safety and regulatory requirements are met.
• Ensures facility SQF standards are maintained and improved upon
• Coordinates activities concerned with regulatory inspections related to food safety and operational aspects.
• Coordinates accurate root-cause analysis to generate prevention strategies and implement preventative and corrective actions.
• Coordinates and assists in compliance reviews and audits as set out in the Facility Compliance Program.
• Collects and maintains compliance-related data or records that are accurate, complete, and fulfill legal requirements. This includes trend analysis, regulatory forms, corrective actions, etc.
• Conduct weekly, monthly, and quarterly audits that are meant to track or ensure compliance of organizational processes or functions.
• Maintains a repository of forms, handbooks, policies, or other documents that are needed to comply with applicable regulations or standards
• Other duties as assigned to meet business needs

Qualifications:

• High School Diploma, Bachelor's Degree preferred
• 2+ years' experience in food safety compliance or other related fields preferred
• Experience in State and Federal regulation of transporting and warehousing of wholesale food products preferred
• Strong computer skills
• Oral and written communication skills
• Detail oriented
• Must possess strong critical thinking skills
• Must be able to work in various temperature-controlled zones ranging from -15 F to ambient temperature
• Must be willing to work the demands of the department which are subject to evenings, weekends and holidays
• Must be willing to travel to other locations for assistance as needed.

Physical Demands:

• Regularly standing and walking
• Reaching with hands and arms to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls.
• Sitting, climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling
• Regularly lifting and/or moving up to 25 pounds.
• Frequently lifting and/or moving up to 50 pounds
• Occasionally lifting and/or moving up to 100 pounds

Corporate Summary:

At Shamrock Foods Company, people come first - our associates, our customers, and the families we serve across the nation. A privately-held, family-owned and -operated Forbes 500 company, Shamrock is an innovator in the food industry and has been since being founded in Arizona in 1922.

Our Mission:

At Shamrock Foods Company, we live by our founding family's motto to "treat associates like family and customers like friends."

Why work for us?

Benefits are a major part of your overall compensation, and we believe offering them at an affordable cost is not only the right thing to do, but it helps keep you and your family healthy. That's why Shamrock Foods pays for the majority of your health insurance, allowing you to take home more of your paycheck. And it doesn't stop there - our associates also enjoy additional benefits such as 401(k) Savings Plan, Profit Sharing, Paid Time Off, as well as our incredible growth opportunities, continued education, wellness programs.

Shamrock Foods Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other basis protected by applicable law.

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