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Job Purpose and Impact

The Regional Food Safety Lead will ensure consistent application of food, safety, quality and regulatory policies and standards across facilities within a business or region. In this role, you will identify continuous improvement of food safety processes and systems, implement policies within the business, ensure audit compliance and customer specifications and quality issues.

Key Accountabilities

• Performs prevention activities and issue resolution across multiple facilities in a region to ensure consistency and collaboration.
• Direct work with suppliers and external manufacturers.
• Accountable for completion of facility audits and proactively anticipates risks and preventative actions.
• Develop, implement and assess food safety processes and systems for facilities and drive continuous improvements.
• Conduct root cause analysis for defects, nonconformities or other quality failures.
• Ensure compliance with formal external and internal quality standards.
• Provide leadership, coaching and mentoring to peers within the team.
• Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience

• Knowledge of food safety concepts, policies, hazard analysis and risk mitigation.

• Minimum of four years of related work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Operations experience

• Must have either feed or manufacturing industry experience.

• Understanding of statistical process control programs.

• Applies intermediate auditing and quality compliance skills to identify and manage risks/compliance.

• Animal nutrition food safety and quality experience.

• Experience interacting with state and federal regulators.