Sodexo
You want high visibility, challenging opportunities and a rewarding environment.
Sodexo has a new opening for a Director, HSE Food Manufacturing Audits to join our team. This position requires a home office and significant travel up to 50% throughout the United States. Candidates should reside in the Central Time Zone.
The Director, HSE Food Manufacturing Audits will manage Sodexo’s first party audit program for food manufacturing and second party audit program for suppliers. Responsibilities include executing a supplier (internal and external) food safety and quality strategy to develop processes and implement robust compliance strategies in collaboration with Supply Management, Food Safety, PQA, and the manufacturing sites. Oversee the scheduling of audits of food processors (including Sodexo Food Transformation facilities) to ensure compliance with company specifications and standards concerning food safety, quality sanitation, production and packaging.
Key responsibilities include the following:
- Strategic planning, risk assessment, policy development, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to drive a culture of quality, product safety and compliance.
- Perform food safety audits at high-risk suppliers to Sodexo. Perform internal audits at Off-Site Food Production Facilities
- Oversee first- and second-party Food Manufacturing Audit program
- Present findings of the audits to Sodexo leadership in Food Safety/PQA and Supply Management
- Develop long term goals for improving and enhancing the program
Key qualifications include:
- Bachelor’s degree in food science, meat science or equivalent experience
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in Food Manufacturing for High-Risk Foods.
- Well versed on FDA food code regulations, as well as. USDA; previous auditing of these facilities. Worked with GFSI, SQF, and BRC schemes
- Experience in developing, updating, and implementing programs, procedures, and actions necessary to effectively monitor and maintain compliance with food safety and quality specifications of multiple major products and other assigned minor products.
- Experience providing technical support to applicable parties.
- Experience conducting food safety, regulatory, process evaluation, certification audits, for food plants and processing facilities
- Proficient with GFSI auditing requirements.
- Experience performing supplier risk assessments to determine facility food safety tier and future audits.
- Bilingual English/Spanish a plus
Sodexo offers a full array of benefits including paid time off, holidays, medical, dental, vision, 401K and access to ongoing training and development programs, tuition reimbursement, plus health and wellness programs.
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What We Offer
Sodexo offers fair and equitable compensation, partially determined by a candidate’s education level or years of relevant experience. While the budgeted range for the position is posted, Sodexo salary offers are based on a candidate’s specific criteria, like experience, skills, education and training.
Qualifications & Requirements
Basic Education Requirement: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
Basic Functional Experience: 5 years
Sodexo is an EEO/AA/Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran employer.