Food Safety Assistant

About Us

We are a small USDA-inspected meat processing company focused on producing safe, high-quality products while maintaining strong food safety and sanitation standards.

We operate in a fast-paced, hands-on environment where everyone wears multiple hats and works together to solve problems and keep operations running smoothly.

Position Overview

The Food Safety Assistant supports daily food safety operations through documentation management, GMP monitoring, pre-operational inspections, sanitation verification, audit support, and production floor activities.

This is not a large corporate QA environment with narrowly defined responsibilities. We are looking for someone who is flexible, organized, resourceful, and comfortable adapting to changing priorities in a small business setting.

This role combines office-based documentation work with active production floor inspection and support responsibilities. Some days are heavily compliance and paperwork focused, while others require significant floor presence and operational support.

This is a support role that works closely with the Food Safety Manager on daily operations, delegated projects, organization, follow-through, and department support needs.

Daily pre-operational inspections begin at 5:00 AM prior to production startup.

Key Responsibilities

Conduct daily pre-operational inspections and sanitation verification

Monitor GMPs, employee practices, and operational risks

Maintain organized and audit-ready food safety records

Review logs, temperatures, and production documentation

Support HACCP, SSOP, GMP, and FSIS compliance activities

Communicate sanitation issues with 3rd party sanitation management

Assist with audits, reports, scorecards, labels, and spec sheets

Help track follow-up items, recurring issues, and department projects

Maintain active food safety presence on the production floor

What We’re Looking For

Highly organized and detail-oriented

Dependable and consistent

Comfortable balancing office and production floor responsibilities

Resourceful and willing to research to problem solve

Able to adapt and shift priorities as operational needs change

Strong communication and follow-through skills

Comfortable working in a fast-paced small business environment

Willing to ask questions instead of guessing

Able to work independently and as part of a team

Preferred Experience

Food manufacturing, meat processing, QA, or food safety experience preferred

HACCP, GMP, SSOP, USDA, or FSIS experience preferred

Audit, sanitation, or compliance documentation experience is a plus

Strong organizational and computer skills required

Schedule

Full-time position

Monday through Friday

8-hour shifts

Daily start time of 5:00 AM