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Food Safety Coordinator
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26 September 2026 (7 hours ago)
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24 December 2026
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Job Summary
We are seeking a detail-oriented and proactive Food Safety Coordinator to support and coordinate food safety and regulatory compliance activities across our fresh produce operations. This role plays a critical part in ensuring compliance with customer regulatory and industry food safety requirements while supporting growers warehouses logistics partners and internal stakeholders.
If you have a passion for food safety enjoy working in a fast-paced environment and thrive on maintaining high standards of compliance and operational excellence we would love to hear from you.
About the Role
The Food Safety Coordinator is responsible for coordinating food safety and compliance programs across supply chain operations. This includes managing customer compliance portals maintaining supplier and facility documentation supporting food safety audits overseeing traceability and recall readiness activities and ensuring all records certifications and compliance requirements remain current and audit-ready.
Please note that this role focuses exclusively on food safety and regulatory compliance. Product quality inspections grading condition assessments and quality claims management are managed separately.
Key Performance Outputs
Customer Compliance & Portal Management
- Manage customer food safety and supplier compliance portals.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date food safety documentation certifications audits questionnaires policies and insurance records.
- Track certification renewals document expirations and submission deadlines.
- Coordinate customer onboarding supplier approvals and facility qualification requirements.
- Respond promptly to customer food safety requests and compliance enquiries.
- Act as the primary U.S.-based food safety liaison coordinating customer requirements with compliance teams in Peru and Mexico.
Warehouse Food Safety Compliance
- Support the qualification and ongoing compliance of warehouses and distribution facilities.
- Review certifications audit reports sanitation programs pest-control documentation temperature monitoring records and traceability procedures.
- Coordinate warehouse food safety assessments and follow-up actions.
- Work closely with warehouse operators and logistics partners to address compliance risks and verify corrective actions.
Supplier & Facility Documentation
- Maintain food safety documentation for suppliers warehouses and supply chain facilities.
- Monitor certification validity audit status corrective actions and customer approval requirements.
- Ensure all documentation remains accurate accessible and audit-ready.
- Follow up on outstanding expired or incomplete records.
Audits & Corrective Actions
- Support customer regulatory third-party and internal food safety audits.
- Coordinate audit preparation documentation scheduling and responses.
- Track non-conformances and corrective actions through to closure.
- Assist with root cause analysis and preventive action verification.
Traceability & Recall Readiness
- Maintain traceability and recall programs across fresh produce operations.
- Coordinate trace-back and trace-forward exercises involving growers packing facilities warehouses and customers.
- Support mock recalls and actual recall activities when required.
- Identify and address traceability gaps to strengthen compliance.
Training & Reporting
- Support food safety training initiatives across operational teams.
- Prepare compliance reports certification trackers audit summaries and corrective action reports.
- Escalate food safety risks overdue actions and compliance concerns appropriately.
- Assist with additional compliance-related duties as business needs evolve.
Requirements
What Youll Bring
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelors degree in Food Science Food Safety Microbiology Agriculture Environmental Health or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 to 4 years of food safety regulatory compliance or related experience within the fresh produce industry.
- Experience working with growers packinghouses cold storage facilities warehouses distribution centres or logistics providers.
- Proven experience managing customer compliance portals certifications supplier documentation and customer requests.
- Experience supporting audits corrective action programs traceability exercises recalls or mock recalls.
- Bilingual English and Spanish is highly desirable.
Technical Knowledge
- Strong understanding of FDA FSMA HACCP GMP GAP/GHP sanitation food defence food fraud traceability and recall requirements.
- Knowledge of GFSI-recognized certification schemes such as PrimusGFS SQF BRCGS and GlobalG.A.P.
- Experience reviewing warehouse food safety programs and compliance records.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office including Excel Word Outlook Teams and SharePoint.
- Ability to maintain organized records and manage audit-ready documentation.
- Valid drivers license and willingness to travel to facilities as required.
Key Competencies
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
- Highly organized with strong planning and prioritization abilities.
- Exceptional attention to detail and document-control discipline.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet critical deadlines.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to risk management.
- Collaborative accountable and customer-focused.
- Professional judgement integrity and a strong food safety mindset.
Why Join Us
- This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in supporting food safety excellence across a growing fresh produce operation. Youll work with diverse stakeholders across the supply chain contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and help ensure the safe delivery of quality products to customers.
- If youre passionate about food safety compliance and building strong operational partnerships we encourage you to apply.
Apply today and become part of a team committed to quality compliance and continuous improvement.
Required Skills:
Working knowledge of FDA FSMA HACCP GMP GAP/GHP sanitation food defense food fraud traceability and recall requirements applicable to fresh produce. Experience with GFSI-recognized certification programs such as PrimusGFS SQF BRCGS and GlobalG.A.P. Experience using customer and supplier compliance portals to upload audits certificates facility records questionnaires specifications and corrective-action evidence. Experience reviewing warehouse food safety programs including sanitation pest control temperature management allergen controls where applicable and traceability. Proficiency in Microsoft Office especially Excel Word Outlook Teams and SharePoint. Ability to organize compliance records monitor expiration dates prepare status reports and maintain audit-ready files. Ability to work in cold-storage and warehouse environments and travel to facilities as needed. Valid drivers license.
Required Education:
Bachelors degree in Food Science Food Safety Microbiology Agriculture Environmental Health or a related field or equivalent relevant experience. Minimum 2-4 years of food safety or regulatory compliance experience within the fresh produce industry. Experience working with fresh produce growers packinghouses cold storage facilities distribution centers or warehouses. Hands-on experience managing customer compliance portals supplier documentation certification renewals and cu
