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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
    Ardent Mills logo, company brand symbol.
    Bartlett a Savage Company logo
    Bay State Milling logo, trusted ingredients family.
    Bunge logo with blue text on black background.
    Whole Foods Market logo with green leaf design.
    Dakota Growers Pasta Co. logo
    Dakota MB logo with stylized wheat design
    G.S. Dunn Dry Mustard Millers logo
    General Mills logo with heart symbol.
    Harinas Elizondo logo with knight and shield
    P&H Milling Group logo emblem.
    Howson & Howson Limited logo, red letter H with wheat.
    J.M. Smucker Co logo with colorful leaf design
    Kellogg's logo
    King Milling Company logo with red crown
    Knappen Milling Co. logo with wheat design.
    Manildra Group logo, Australian owned company
    Mennel logo with yellow underline
    Miller Milling Company logo
    MOLSA logo
    Mondelez International logo
    NAMILCO logo with windmill design
    National Flour Mills logo with wheat design
    New Life Mills logo
    White stylized logo on red circular background
    North Dakota Mill logo, Quality Millers since 1922
    P&H Milling Group logo emblem.
    Pizzey Ingredients logo design
    Quaker Oats logo with man in hat.
    Rank Hovis logo with wheat design
    Riceland logo
    Sakai Spice logo with yellow background
    Shawnee Milling Company logo
    Siemer Milling Company logo, established 1882
    Smucker's brand logo with curved banner
    Star of the West Milling Co. logo
    Viterra logo