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Food Safety Manager

Ensuring safe and compliant production, handling, and storage.

A Food Safety Manager in the grain milling industry provides strategic leadership to ensure that grain and flour products are produced, handled, and stored safely and in full compliance with regulatory, customer, and certification requirements. This role establishes and governs food safety programs and systems, oversees risk management and ensures effective sanitation, monitoring, and audit readiness across the organization. Working cross-functionally with quality, operations and leadership teams, the Food Safety Manager protects the company’s license to operate, brand reputation and customer trust while enabling safe, reliable and compliant production.

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Career Responsibilities

  • Develop, validate, verify and implement HACCP/Food Safety plans
  • Develop and/or implements training programs to assure compliance and understanding of food safety and regulatory compliance
  • Lead sanitation team and efforts
  • Handle 3rd party food safety audits including BRC, SQF and FSC22000 including scheduling, facilitating and CAPA response
  • Conduct internal audits and develop corrective and preventative action plans to ensure compliance to standards are met
  • Incident management including managing product holds and facilitating root cause analysis and development of corrective and preventative actions
  • Respond to regulatory requests and customer questionnaires relating to food safety
  • Subject matter expert: FDA regulations, Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), Processing, Packaging, Environmental, Product Lifecycle etc.

Educational Requirements

Related degrees, training and fields of study include:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in:
    • Food Science
    • Cereal Science
    • Biology
    • Chemistry
    • Milling Science
    • Or, related field
  • HACCP, SQF (or GFSI certification), PCQI certification
  • 3-5 years laboratory experience
  • Knowledge of federal and state food industry regulations including the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)
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Companies

Grain Milling Companies

    ADM logo with green leaf design
    Amber Wave logo with leaf design
    AIPC logo with wheat accents
    Ardent Mills logo, company brand symbol.
    Bakalian Flour Mills logo
    Bartlett a Savage Company logo
    Bay State Milling logo, trusted ingredients family.
    Brant Flour Mills Ltd logo with wheat design
    Brar Natural Flour Milling logo with lion
    Central Milling logo with farmhouse and fields.
    Cereals Canada logo design
    C.H. Guenther logo on white background
    Jiffy mix logo in blue and red
    Community Food Works logo with heart.
    CGB company logo with gold letters
    Didion Milling logo with sun design
    ECGC logo in bold red letters
    Harinas Elizondo logo with knight and shield
    Vintage truck with wheat and logo
    Farmers' Rice Cooperative logo, blue design.
    Brown's logo with company name
    G.S. Dunn Dry Mustard Millers logo
    General Mills logo with heart symbol.
    Grain Craft logo with yellow underline
    Grain Millers logo with wheat and mill.
    Greenfield Milling logo with wheat and leaves
    Ground Up stone milled flours logo
    Harinera Los Pirineos logo
    Sunflower logo with red text and flowers
    Howson & Howson Limited logo, red letter H with wheat.
    Iowa Corn Processors logo with corn icon.
    Kansas State University logo in purple
    King Milling Company logo with red crown
    Knappen Milling Co. logo with wheat design.
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    Les Moulins de la Concorde logo
    Mennel logo with yellow underline
    Miller Milling Company logo
    Millers logo with slogan
    Mitsides logo with woman in wheat field
    National Flour Mills logo with wheat design
    Nestlé logo with birds in a nest
    White stylized logo on red circular background
    North Dakota Mill logo, Quality Millers since 1922
    P&H Milling Group logo emblem.
    Pan American Grain logo with stylized wheat.
    Philippine Foremost Milling Corporation logo.
    PHM Brands logo with wheat graphic
    Red laurel wreath with Prima Group logo
    Riceland logo
    Richardson logo in blue and bronze.
    Richardson Milling logo with blue and gold colors
    Riviana Foods Inc. logo with blue text
    Rogers logo with wheat and green circle
    Sakai Spice logo with yellow background
    Schiff Food Products logo with chili pepper
    Seaboard Overseas Trading Group logo
    Siemer Milling Company logo, established 1882
    Silver Hills logo with sprouted power
    Snavely's Best logo with roses and wheat.
    Star of the West Milling Co. logo
    Logo of Takoradi Flour Mill Ltd.
    Vepinsa Ingredientes logo with wheat design
    Minot Milling logo with wheat graphic
    Jinshake logo with green and orange design