Food Safety Specialist

Summary:   Audits and evaluates food safety and quality programs to maintain food safety, and product quality conformance to programs and regulations consistent with martin’s standards and mission to “bake the best products.”

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Maintain, audit and verify food safety and quality critical control points and programs in the manufacturing process.
• Collect and test finished product and ingredient samples for various product testing programs and reports findings and trends.
• Conduct tasks of the environmental monitoring program such as completing swabbing, sending samples to 3rd party labs, recording results, and assisting management in the identification and addressing of issues.
• Conduct tasks of the mold sampling program and analysis.
• Assists in coordinating and leading food safety meetings with production teams.
• Assists in root cause analysis investigations and corrective action plans for food safety and product quality deviations.
• Provides documentation and research to aid with the investigation of customer complaints.
• Conduct verification and effectiveness audits of the food safety and quality management systems.
• Visits and performs food safety and quality audits of suppliers.
• Participates in food safety and quality internal audit teams.
• Acts as a training and resource on Food Safety procedures and programs to support all employees within the organization.
• Communicates issues or developments identified during food safety and quality control activities and provides information to management.
• Adheres to food safety, quality, and Good Manufacturing regulations.
• Reports safety, food safety, and quality issues to personnel with authorize to initiate action.
• Any other food safety/lab related tasks assigned by management in order to assist in meeting company objective.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

There are no supervisory responsibilities.

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.