What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technical Manager, Food Safety position at Buyers Edge Platform, LLC?
Who are we?
The Buyer’s Edge Platform Fresh Division is an entity comprised of Fresh Concepts, Produce Alliance, Fresh Alliance & Fresh Services with over 35 years of produce management solutions. The Fresh Division provides fresh produce category management services, procurement and contracting,, national distribution, freight management, k-12 solutions, technology services, and food safety assurance to food service clients across North America, the Caribbean and beyond. The Fresh Division has a national footprint of over 125 industry leading distributors in North America, and partnerships with the most premier grower shippers.
This position is remotely based with anticipated travel up to 15% per year. We are unable to offer work sponsorship for this role.
The Technical Manager, Food Safety, will support the Food Safety Director and will be responsible for food safety technical affairs. This role will mostly not be customer facing but will be managing work to support customer facing initiatives and projects. This role will work closely with the Director of Food Safety to ensure the thorough and timely completion of technical food safety projects and initiatives. This role will also lead and manage larger technical initiatives to support the entire Fresh Services Food Safety Team and the Fresh Division.
Your impact:
- Keep up with food safety regulations and best practices and provide expertise in these areas.
- Responsible for the FSQA portion of RFP development, FSQA legal review of documents, and FSQA review of expectation manuals as assigned.
- Manage the status and completion of Technical Audit Reviews as assigned.
- Manage and provide direction and accountability to traceability projects.
- Manage and report on customer and supplier complaint management.
- Manage other projects assigned to support the Fresh Division Food Safety team at large.
- Create and maintain time bound task lists for this role and potentially for others.
- Assist the Director to manage the Second Party Audit program at Supplier or Distributor locations.
- Assist in continuous improvement of department policies, procedures, and systems.
- Assist with ESG initiatives and provide expertise in this field.
- Assist, or lead when needed, Food Safety Events such as Recalls/Outbreaks/Market Withdrawals.
- Attend and participate in department and company meetings.
- Possibly attend food safety conferences and engage in industry associations.
- Maintain strong, positive, professional relationships with all stakeholders.
About you:
- Bachelor’s Degree required or equivalent experience.
- Expected 3-5 years of experience in food safety related field of work, technical work experience required.
- Work experience required to be in fields of Foodservice, Distribution, Grower Shippers, or Manufacturer level servicing food service operations.
- Experience with 2nd and or 3rd party safety audits required, preference to SQF, Primus or other GFSI accredited schemes.
- Experience with Produce food safety regulations is strongly preferred.
- Experience with Meat and Seafood regulations preferred
What's in this for you?
Amazing coverages to start. Medical, dental, and vision coverages are just the beginning! We also offer ancillary plans, such as flexible spending accounts for both health and dependent care, critical illness, accident, and voluntary life as well as company paid life! On top of this, we also offer a 401(k) plan with company match.
Invest in your success. We will provide you with a thorough training and development program; and offer competitive compensation.
Live well = Work well. Relax with our Personal Responsibility Paid Time Off policy where you don’t have to accrue time off in order to take it!
