Give & Go Prepared Foods Corp.is a proud member of the Mondelēz family. We are a leading, and growing, North American manufacturer of baked goods for over 30 years. If you're looking for a company that will provide you with opportunities for career growth and development, while working with an energetic and team with deeply ingrained values of respect, direct and open communication, quality, and accountability, we’d love to have you join our team. Our Consumer Brands: two-bite® brand, including two bite-brownies®, Kimberley's Bakeshoppe™, Mason St. Bakehouse™, and The Worthy Crumb Pastry Co™

It’s an exciting time to part of the Give & Go team as we are growing rapidly and want you to become a part of our growth and extraordinarily bright future!

Job Overview

As a Food Safety Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring the deployment of a risk-based food safety management program from design to execution as well as conducting food safety risk assessments, HACCP validations, setting acceptance criteria and performing food safety monitoring.

Contract: 12 Months

What You Will Get To Do

• Maintain proper documentation relating to QA reports, KPI’s and ensure trends identified in audits and HACCP validations are tracked and preventative actions are developed.
• Design, development, and deployment of Food Safety programs
• Support the business quality policies and capture operational feedback to keep them up to date
• Establish food safety scorecard with defined criteria to assess food safety risk factors, implement improvement strategies and communication to all applicable stakeholders
• Develop Food safety strategy for the company and work with plants to ensure objectives are met
• Responsible for Food Safety Assessments
• Ensure risk assessments are used as a key decision-making approach for product, process and package design safety
• Provide risk-based food safety verifications for suppliers, manufacturing sites, warehouses, and transportation and customer
• Conduct HACCP validations (planning and execution)
• Food Safety Risk Assessments to support plant notifications and critical business issues (Crisis Management)
• Assess, review, and approve R&D, Engineering and Supply Chain projects
• Support the effective management of operational food safety challenges at factories (including disposition decision making based on risk assessment and advice on risk management interactions with authorities)
• Partner with factories on improvement strategies for quality and food safety compliance
• Development of capabilities and competencies in the short and long term to the plant quality teams and HACCP coordinators
• Governance and support for CAPA plans in the full Supply Chain related to Food Safety
• Support for QCMS audits and other compliance requirements FS policies
• Provide cross-functional leadership with QA, R&D and Commercial functions
• Develop and provide training on company food safety management requirements
• Participate in GFSI, customer and supplier audits as required
• Influence and partner with cross-functional peers, effectively communicating how food safety supports our company values and implement a food safety culture across the organization

Recipe For Success

• Completion of Bachelor of Science degree or equivalent work experience
• 8 years in Food Safety and Quality in the food industry
• Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) certification(s)
• Proficient with office 365, Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Teams.
• Ability to run analytics and use database systems to create reports
• Possess strong customer service, interpersonal skills, an approachable demeanor, and an active listener
• Demonstrated cross-functional leadership skills with an effective ability to coach and influence others
• Strong knowledge of CFIA/Health Canada/FDA/USDA/GF