If you’re passionate about food safety, thrive on the plant floor, and want a role where your work directly protects product integrity every single day, this opportunity is calling your name. As the HACCP Coordinator, you become the backbone of a USDA‑regulated food manufacturing operation — the person who ensures every process, every record, and every decision meets the highest standards of safety and compliance.
This is a hands‑on role with real influence, real visibility, and a real pathway to leadership.
What the Company Offers
- Competitive salary: $55,000–$75,000, depending on experience
- Relocation assistance to Lake Crystal, MN
- Strong internal promotion culture — clear advancement into QA Supervisor, Food Safety Manager, or SQF Practitioner roles
- Full benefits package
- Stability and growth within a respected protein manufacturer
Role Summary
You will own and continuously improve the plant’s HACCP system for a high‑volume, USDA‑regulated food manufacturing operation. This role is highly visible on the production floor and partners daily with QA, Operations, Sanitation, and Maintenance to uphold food safety, regulatory compliance, and customer standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain, update, and verify HACCP plans, flow diagrams, hazard analyses, and prerequisite programs
- Lead daily CCP/PC verification, record review, corrective action validation, and trend analysis
- Serve as the plant’s HACCP and USDA compliance expert during FSIS, customer, and GFSI audits
- Conduct internal audits (HACCP, GMP, sanitation, allergen, environmental) and drive corrective actions
- Support USDA compliance: pre‑op inspections, operational sanitation, documentation accuracy
- Partner with production to ensure GMP adherence, hygienic zoning, and proper handling of RTE poultry
- Lead or support investigations for deviations, foreign material, environmental positives, or process failures
- Deliver training for HACCP, GMPs, allergen control, sanitation, and food safety culture
- Review and approve labels, formulations, and process changes for food safety impact
- Support environmental monitoring: swabbing, trending, corrective actions
- Participate in equipment and process validation for thermal processing, cooling, and canning
Required Experience & Skills
- High School Diploma (degree a plus)
- HACCP certification or ability to obtain within 90 days
- 2+ years food manufacturing experience (USDA RTE protein preferred but not required)
- 1+ year working knowledge of GMPs, CCPs, Preventive Controls, thermal processing, sanitation, environmental monitoring
- Ability to interpret USDA/FSIS regulations and customer specifications
- Strong documentation, organization, and communication skills
- Comfortable in a fast‑paced, high‑volume plant environment
- Preferred (Not Required)
- Experience in USDA RTE canned meats or shelf‑stable protein
- Exposure to SQF, BRC, or other GFSI schemes
- Background in high‑care or high‑risk production environments
Why This Role Is Exciting
This is your chance to step into a role where your expertise truly matters. You’ll be the guardian of food safety for a major protein operation — with the support, training, and career path to grow into higher‑level QA and Food Safety leadership roles. If you want a role that blends technical challenge, regulatory responsibility, and daily plant‑floor engagement, this is the opportunity to seize.
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