Manager of Food Safety & Compliance

The Basics

Title: Manager of Food Safety & Compliance
Reporting to: Director of Food Safety & Compliance
Location: Cherryvale, KS – base location
Travel: Travel to Coffeyville, KS Flour Mill and additional travel will be required with future growth of the company, approximately 40% travel
Compensation: Competitive salary based on experience
Days/Hours: Day shift with occasional off shift hours as needed
Material Handled: Bulk soybeans, soybean meal, soybean oil, soy hull products, bulk wheat, wheat flour, wheat midds

These are just a few of the benefits you can expect from working with Bartlett:

• Excellent benefits including medical, dental, vision, PTO, Holidays, Profit Sharing, and 401(k) with match
• Uniforms provided
• PPE provided by the company
• Boot reimbursement
• Clothing reimbursement
• A culture of safety
• Uniform Services Time Off (USTO)
• Uniform Services Differential Pay
• A culture that appreciates Team Members

What you’ll be doing:

• Read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, procedure manuals, and technical procedures.
• Maintain document control for food safety policy, procedure, and form
• Conduct internal facility food safety audits and issue corrective action based on audit results
• Track and Report Internal Food Safety and Quality Audit results to Senior Leadership
• Oversee and Enforce all GMP, GAP and HACCP Food Safety Programs in the milling and soy processing business
• Understand SQF and BRC Food Safety Requirements, GMS Safe, and other industry standards and support the Director of Food Safety & Compliance in the development and maintenance of the Food Safety Management System Standards and Programs
• Alongside the Director of Food Safety & Compliance, you will be responsible for the Food Safety Management System requirements throughout the manufacturing and supply chain process to ensure execution and compliance with company policies / processes, regulatory requirements
• Responsible for coordinating customer, regulatory, and 3rd party audits related to food safety

• Responsible to be point of contact for site services related to the maintenance of food safety and quality systems (such as Pest Control and Kosher Certification)

• Ensure effective monitoring and communication of corporate performance metrics as well as local metrics to improve areas of focus
• Responsible point of contact for external customer, regulatory, and certification audits as well as follow-up and corrective action completion/verification of effectiveness
• Support the Director of Food Safety & Compliance in maintaining customer specific regulatory and compliance food safety and quality questionnaires and other compliance document requests to maintain supplier approval with customers.
• Support the Director of Food Safety & Compliance with tracking customer incidents, categorizing, and following up on corrective and preventive actions in relation to prevention of future customer incidents.
• Provides oversight and support for all significant quality events, and near-misses.
• Support site leadership with traceability and routine traceability testing.
• Support site leadership with root cause analysis and effective corrective and preventive actions.
• Develop, Maintain, and improve Food Safety training content for site operations.

Requirements to be successful in this position:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong prioritizing and time management skills
• High level organizational skills with accuracy and attention to detail
• A strong customer focus and service orientation
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Authentic and approachable personality that can connect with a diverse range of people
• A motivated self-starter who can work well both independently and as part of a team
• A high sense of integrity, professional courage, sound judgment and sense of urgency
• Understanding of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) and understanding of FDA regulations (21 CFR 110 & 117)
• Able to lead, mentor, train and inspire the team around you
• Experience with performing Root Cause Analysis and developing corrective and preventive action to prevent recurrence
• Experience in maintaining a functional HACCP/Food Safety Program
• Working knowledge of Food Plant Sanitation, Pest Control and Good Manufacturing Practices.
• In depth knowledge of the SQF and BRC Food Safety Audit Standards and audit process.
• Experience working with Regulatory Affairs (USDA & FDA)
• Experience working with Kosher requirements
• Preventive Controls Qualified Individual (PCQI) Certification and HACCP Certification preferred
• Experience with Pest Management Companies / Experience developing a Pest Management Program
• Basic knowledge of SDS
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office products (Excel, Outlook, Word & PowerPoint)
• Experience with soy processing (oil, soybean meal, pellets) and flour or bakery products is a plus

• A Bachelor’s degree in a discipline like Food Science/Engineering, Microbiology, Food or Analytical Chemistry or similar area of concentration recommended or 4 or more years of experience in quality control, quality assurance, and/or food safety in a food processing environment

Physical Requirements:

• This job is not overly physically strenuous
• You must be able to sit and/or stand and operate lab equipment and utilize computers
• Occasionally, you will need to lift, push and pull up to 50 pounds and occasionally more
• Able to ascend and descend stairs and ladders
• This job is mainly in a controlled-atmosphere environment, indoors in an office building, but you will have frequent exposure to outdoor and processing areas of the facility
• This job may occasionally require oversight and inspection of areas that are up to 100’ high