Job Summary
United Staffing Associates in Santa Paula is seeking a Food Safety Specialist to support daily food safety, sanitation, and quality activities within a produce packing and processing environment. This position is responsible for ensuring compliance with food safety programs, maintaining accurate records, conducting inspections, and supporting audit readiness. This is a temp to hire opportunity.
Duties
- Conduct pre-operational and post-operational inspections.
- Monitor cleaning and sanitation procedures and verify compliance with SSOPs, GMPs, EMP, and ATP programs.
- Maintain food safety, sanitation, inspection, chemical inventory, and related records.
- Identify non-conformities and coordinate corrective actions, documentation, and follow-up.
- Train and support production, sanitation, and quality personnel on food safety requirements.
- Assist with food safety, regulatory, and certification audits and maintain audit-ready documentation.
- Coordinate and supervise sanitation activities, including scheduling and task assignments.
- Monitor compliance with safety, quality, food safety, occupational health, and environmental procedures.
- Perform additional duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Minimum 2 years of experience in food safety within produce packing, processing, or a related food manufacturing environment.
- Knowledge of HACCP, GMPs, SSOPs, and environmental monitoring programs (EMP).
- Experience with food safety documentation, inspections, sanitation, and corrective actions.
- Strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Intermediate Microsoft Office skills.
- Intermediate to advanced English preferred.
- Degree or equivalent experience in Food Technology, Agriculture, Biology, or a related field preferred.
- HACCP, food safety, EMP sampling, or related training/certifications are a plus.
Join us as a Food Safety Coordinator to champion product integrity through rigorous quality assurance practices! Your dedication will directly impact consumer trust while advancing your career in a dynamic manufacturing setting committed to excellence in food safety standards.
Pay: $25.00 - $28.00 per hour
Application Question(s):
- Does your resume include qualifications required for this job?
Experience:
- Food safety: 2 years (Required)
Work Location: In person
