Manager, Food Safety

Job Contributions and Key Responsibilities

Staff Management

• Manage Food Safety Specialists.
• Set and monitor goals / objectives / assignments, provide adequate coaching / counseling, develop and monitor employee development plans, and provide recommendations as part of the succession planning, appraisal, and salary planning process.

Food Safety Program Management

• Responsible for Food Safety documentation Including management of manuals, policies and procedures.
• Ensure Food Safety records are maintained, updated and available
• Lead and manage the development of procedures, work instructions and documentary review, taking into account updates and new regulations.
• Ensure production leadership and ranch management carry out the Food Safety Program. Maintain open two way communication and participate in meetings.
• Ensure that the organization is FSMA/Global Gap/Canada GAP compliant
• Liaison with outside entities and local Ag Commissioners office to ensure all sites are active and restricted materials are registered.

Organic Certification / California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF) Program/California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA)

• Manage organic compliance program assigned districts/entities (wholly owned, Partners and Growers) to include but not limited to:

- Basic painting and minor repairs duties

- Paint exterior and interior walls, structures, fencing, etc, as needed and document through appropriate work order process.

- Remove graffiti to common areas damaged by vandalism as needed and record in appropriate log work order system.

- Completes minor drywall repairs where necessary.

- Leading Inspections / Audits

- Training and educating production management

- Maintaining, processing and updating certifications

- Gathering and submitting required data

- Maintaining knowledge of requirements of each type of certification

• Responsible for final approvals on all new suppliers, products and programs associated with organic program
• Develop policies and implement all new SOE regulation
• Create traceability protocols for all cold storage movements
• Renew CCOF and CDFA contracts annually
• Prepare and submit CDFA Cost Share applications annually
• Lead investigations, prepare and Respond to all noncompliance’s issued by certification body
• Develop structure and material for Organic Committees

Regulatory and Social Compliance/ Inspections /Audits

• Prepare and lead all regulatory inspections
• Responsible for leading the resolution of non-conformities as well as the submission of timely evidence in the required format
• Deliver required Food Safety reports, to include inspection, to production and ranch management
• Collaborate with Food Safety Management Team to ensure sustainability regulations indicated om audits and legal compliance are taken into account and applied
• Comprehensive audit reports will be written and kept on file detailing all observations and corrective actions related to each assessment
• Manage the execution of product removals and recalls for all assigned categories and for communications from and to our distribution partner Driscoll’s
• Ensure document control is applied to forms and procedures

Training & Education

• Development, implementation, maintenance and providing of Food Safety technical training, to include presentations and manual(s) (strategies, processes and requirements).
• Provide training new to new and existing staff, management (Production team) and agricultural workers on the Food Safety Program

Water Compliance/Organic Land Rotation

• Support Land and Water Resources Management as needed
• Prepare reports
• Collect and prepare ranch data / mapping on planted acreage
• Monitor yearly water and commodity allocation / usage.
• Work with Land Managers / Rotating Land Managers to prepare and submit all add acreage, parcel transfers, surrende