Food Safety and Quality Assurance Specialist

3 days ago


Hoffman Estates, Illinois, United States Sysco Full time
Job Summary

Monitor and evaluate Food Safety & Quality Assurance (FSQA) programs and inspection procedures to ensure compliance with corporate and regulatory requirements at Sysco Specialty Meat and/or Seafood Company.

Responsibilities
  • Monitor FSQA programs, including HACCP, sanitation standard operating procedures, pest control, good manufacturing practices, approved supplier program, foreign material control, plant sanitation, chemical control, product quality assurance, FSQA customer complaints, food defense, and security.
  • Assist in employee training on FSQA programs, policies, and procedures.
  • Assist in implementing independent FSQA audit programs, including SQF audits.
  • Support product evaluations, plant visits, and supplier/customer communication to assist other staff members.
  • Interact with SSMC/SSSC personnel, operations, sales, transportation, and maintenance, as well as Sysco Operating Companies and supplier/customer personnel at the line level.
Qualifications
  • Formal job training in TQM principles, SPC, HACCP concepts, CFIA/FDA regulations is beneficial.
  • Formal quality and sensory analysis training is helpful.
  • One to three years of meat and/or seafood industry experience at a federal CFIA/FDA meat and/or seafood processing plant is required.
  • Raw meat or seafood industry experience is accepted instead of combined experience.
  • Demonstrate the ability to write reports, basic business correspondence, and effectively present information and respond to questions from managers.
  • Demonstrate the ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide into all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
  • Demonstrate the ability to define problems, collect data, and establish facts.
  • Demonstrate the ability to interpret basic technical instructions.
  • Ability to use personal computer, lab equipment, food preparation equipment, and office communication equipment.
Certifications, Licenses, and/or Registrations
  • Valid driver's license.
Physical Demands
  • Regularly required to talk or hear.
  • Frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls.
  • Occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, and taste or smell.
  • Occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.
  • Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment
  • Frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles.
  • Occasionally works near mechanical parts and in high, precarious places and is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, extreme cold, and risk of radiation.
  • The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate, and operating in a refrigerated environment is common.


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