Food Safety Coordinator

Purpose: To improve people’s lives

Vision: To grow and deliver the highest quality fruit and create value for our customers, employees, and growers.

Mission: The Legacy family is admired for being the industry leader. We are passionate about creating value and improving people’s lives.

Role Summary: The Coordinator verifies and maintains areas of employee safety relations, training and education, various filing, record keeping, collecting, and recording food safety documentation for their respective area of the organization (warehouse and orchard).

Values: Demonstrates behaviors which contribute to the growth and achievement of Legacy’s mission:

· Integrity: We do the right thing, even when no one is watching.

· Respect: We practice the “Golden Rule”.

· Teamwork: We work together to achieve common goals – no barriers.

· Excellence: We continuously look for was to creatively improve.

· Accountability: We are personally responsible for delivering desired results.

· Passion: We earnestly care about outcomes and perceptions of others.

Leadership Responsibilities:

· Supervises team by providing coaching and ensuring compliance with appropriate laws and practices and requests for information.

· Ensures excellent customer service is provided to employees, applicants, managers, and other community members.

· Works with management to understand current and future needs and develops process improvement plans.

· Participates in intra-departmental and inter-departmental efforts for continuous safety, quality, and productivity improvement.

· Designs methods for continuous improvement in the delivery of services by soliciting internal and external feedback, using best practice models and organizational goals.

· Supports management team on policies and practices.

· Strategic planning, continuous improvement innovation, helps team to achieve goals and objectives

· Promotes and completes required training.

Job Duties/Responsibilities:

· Ensure all departments in the warehouse/orchards comply to various food safety standards; SQF, Global GAP, USDA GHP, FDA Preventative Controls, Produce Safety Rule, etc.

· Validate and verify food safety risk assessments and documents

· Propose updates for risk assessments, policies and procedures

· Perform monthly food safety inspections and document nonconformances

· Perform monthly security inspection of the warehouse/orchards and document nonconformances

· Perform quarterly security threat assessment of the warehouse/orchards and document nonconformances

· Manage the monthly safety training matrix to keep current and relevant

· Manage grower certificate tracking and collection

· Perform ad-hoc projects for the Safety Team

· Assist in gathering and preparing safety and training information into a usable and logical format for presentation to the safety committee, Human Resource department and the Leadership Team

· Attend meetings with the Safety Team to discuss goals for the week and review the calendar in order to be able to assist with preparation for upcoming events/meetings

· Attend meetings as requested, record minutes, type them, and send them to all those involved

· Create positive relationships with the management teams, safety committee, supervisors, and hourly staff

· Attend various training opportunities as they relate to Food Safety/People Safety

· May be required to travel to various orchards and warehouses from time to time

· Daily Stand ups with Safety Team

· Food safety data entry and log documentation

· Other duties as assigned

Education & Experience:

· Bachelors in related field preferred

· Prefer at least 2-3 years prior work experience in the Food Safety or Employee Safety

• Bilingual in Spanish & English preferred

Pre-Employment Requirements:

• Drug test & background check required

Certificates & Licenses:

· Global Gap Training

· Basics of SQF Systems

· Basic HACCP

· Driver’s License- Clean driving record

Physical Requirements/Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

· Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.

· Must be able to access and navigate each department at the organization’s facilities.

· Ability to write, communicate, understand, remember, and apply oral and/or written instructions or other information in English.

· Ability to plan, organize, and carry out assignments from management staff with minimal direction.

· Ability to analyze situations, interpret data and make decisions that have moderate impact on immediate work unit.

· Ability to organize and prioritize job duties in an effective and timely manner, set priorities and meet critical deadlines.

· High reasoning ability to solve practical problems with common sense approaches.

· Ability to tolerate potential harsh weather conditions for short or long periods of time in the warehouse and orchard environments

· Ability to maintain accurate files and records.

· This position requires standing, walking and sitting for long periods of time.

· This position requires exerting up to 20 pounds of force in order to lift, carry, pull, or move objects.

Mental/Other Skills & Abilities:

· Ability to adapt to changes, delays, or unexpected events in the work environment; ability to manage competing demands and prioritize tasks; ability to change approach or method to best fit the situation

· Ability to maintain focus for extended periods of time; ability to complete projects with resourcefulness; ability to synthesize complex or diverse information; ability to use intuition and experience to complement existing data

· Ability to follow instructions, both in written and verbal format; ability to respond to management direction; ability to complete tasks on time or notify the appropriate person with an alternate plan when necessary

· Ability to maintain satisfactory relationships with others, excellent customer service skills and a good overall understanding of appropriate human relations

· Ability to make prudent and timely decisions; ability to exhibit sound and accurate judgment; ability to explain reasoning for decisions

· Ability to identify and/or prevent problems; ability to formulate alternative solutions to problems when necessary; ability to transfer learning from past experiences to new experiences of similar nature

· Ability to complete duties, on time; ability to edit the accuracy and thoroughness of one’s work as well as the work of others; ability to constructively apply feedback to improve performance, ability to generate ideas to improve and promote quality in work

· Ability, in English to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations; ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals; ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public

· High reasoning ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists; ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form

Employees agree not to disclose Confidential Information or Proprietary Data to third parties or anyone not on a need-to-know basis, directly or indirectly. If Confidential Information or Proprietary Data is used or disclosed, the Employer may take disciplinary action, up to and including termination.

“Legacy Fruit provides reasonable accommodations to assist qualified individuals in order to perform the essential duties/requirements their job requires. The description is intended to provide only basic guidelines for meeting job requirements and serves as merely a summary rather than a complete listing of duties. Responsibilities, knowledge, skills, abilities, and working conditions may change as needs evolve. This job description does not constitute a contract as employment is at will.”

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $26.14 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 10 hour shift
• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• Weekends as needed

Shift availability:

• Day Shift (Required)

Ability to Commute:

• Wapato, WA 98951 (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Wapato, WA 98951: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $26