Senior Food Safety Manager
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sweetgreenFood Safety / QSR
Location: RemoteFull-TimeSenior
Salary$110,000 — $147,000 USD
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Job Details
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Required Skills
- Quality Assurance
Requirements
- 10+ years in food safety or quality assurance, ideally in a multi-unit restaurant or QSR environment.
- Proven track record building and scaling food safety programs across a growing footprint.
- Deep technical expertise in pathogens, microbes, microbiological testing, and HACCP.
- Strong understanding of government regulations, codes, and standards governing food safety.
- Direct experience owning third-party audit programs and managing regulatory relationships.
- Experience serving as the technical escalation point for a distributed team or field organization.
- Experience influencing senior leaders on operational and financial decisions.
- Bachelor of Science degree; preference for Food Science, Microbiology, or Biological Science.
- Ability to travel up to 75% of the time.
- Strong data fluency in food safety management and reporting systems.
Responsibilities
- Set food safety strategy, program standards, and priorities for the company.
- Serve as the technical authority for the Food Safety team, guiding regional partners on complex investigations and high-risk escalations.
- Own food safety performance for the NYC Region, maintaining compliance with federal, state, and local regulatory requirements.
- Manage the NYC Region's third-party audit and pest control programs, driving corrective actions to completion.
- Develop SOPs, training materials, crisis management protocols, and reporting systems to track food safety performance.
- Build and maintain relationships with local health departments, guiding operators through inspections and violations.
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