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Sysco

Supplies food and kitchen goods to restaurants

Food Safety and Quality Assurance

Validation, Compliance & Quality SystemsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeToledo, OH, USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • One to three years of experience in the meat and/or seafood industry, as appropriate, at a federal CFIA/FDA meat and/or seafood processing plant; raw meat or seafood industry experience alone is acceptable instead of combined experience.
  • Ability to write reports and basic business correspondence, present information effectively, and respond to managers’ questions.
  • Ability to perform basic arithmetic using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
  • Ability to define problems, collect data, and establish facts.
  • Ability to interpret basic technical instructions.
  • Ability to use a personal computer, laboratory equipment, food preparation equipment, and office communication equipment.
  • Valid driver’s license.
  • Ability to meet the stated physical demands, including occasional lifting or moving of up to 100 pounds; plant audits and inspections may involve lifting products, working on a moving production line, and visual inspection. Corrected vision is required for sensory analysis, and close and distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception are needed for warehouse and plant audits.
  • Ability to work in the described environment, including refrigerated conditions and potential exposure to fumes or airborne particles, mechanical hazards, noise, wet or humid conditions, extreme cold, and occasional high or precarious places.

Responsibilities

  • Monitor food safety and quality assurance support and evaluation programs, and inspection and audit procedures, to ensure products and processes comply with corporate and regulatory requirements.
  • Monitor food safety and quality assurance programs, including the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points program, sanitation standard operating procedures, pest control, good manufacturing practices, approved supplier program, foreign material control, plant sanitation, chemical control, product quality assurance, customer complaints, food defense, and security.
  • Assist with employee training on food safety and quality assurance programs, policies, and procedures.
  • Assist with implementation of the independent food safety and quality assurance audit program, including Safe Quality Food audits.
  • Assist with product evaluations, plant visits, and supplier and customer communications to support other staff members.
  • Assist as needed during emergencies with matters the plant president or general manager determines are paramount to the business.
  • Frequently interact with specialty meat or seafood company personnel, operations, sales, transportation and maintenance teams, Sysco operating companies, and supplier and customer personnel at the line level.
  • Conduct plant audits and inspections, including inspections at remote in-transit processing facilities and Sysco operating companies.

Desired Qualifications

  • Formal job training in Total Quality Management principles, Statistical Process Control, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points concepts, and Canadian Food Inspection Agency/Food and Drug Administration regulations would be beneficial.
  • Formal quality and sensory analysis training would be helpful.

About the Company

Sysco

Supplies food and kitchen goods to restaurants

Sysco buys, stores and delivers food, kitchen supplies and equipment to restaurants, hospitals, schools, hotels and other businesses that cook away from home. Alongside national brands, it sells its own Sysco Brand line of foods and supplies, which fills a large share of the cases it ships. Its biggest product groups are fresh and frozen meats, canned and dry goods, and frozen produce and baked goods. Customers order through Sysco sales representatives or online, and Sysco delivers from distribution centers across North America and Europe, earning money on the difference between what it pays suppliers and what customers pay for delivered goods. Sysco was founded in 1969, began public operations in 1970 and is based in Houston, Texas.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Houston, TX
Founded
1969

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