Food Safety Manager

Food Safety Manager

Who We Are:

Food is magnetic. From football games to family gatherings, food draws people in and has the profound ability to forge traditions, share culture, and spur connection. However, for food to have this impact, it must get to our shelves and tables.

At Nextera Packaging, we believe we get to play a small, yet influential role, in supporting food’s powerful connection through supplying food packaging. This role not only fuels our passion for food packaging, but founds Nextera’s very purpose for existing:

To connect food to people through beautiful, safe, and sustainable packaging.

For over 45 years, Nextera Packaging has lived and breathed food packaging and we have become a respected and leading name in the industry, specifically with food processors and packers.

However, we are entering a new era for our company and have shifted our mentality away from the comfort and complacency decades of successful business can bring in favor of a startup-like hunger to not just embrace the future of food packaging but help shape it.

We are looking to grow a team with people who share our hunger to shape the future of food packaging and are ready to live our purpose by helping processors and packers connect their food to people like you and me.

Work Culture:

Unlike food packaging, we can’t manufacture a healthy company culture. However, we can say “this is the kind of company we want to be” and develop values and habits that support that. At Nextera, we want to be an inclusive company known for a Culture of Honor. From clients to vendors to team members, we want every person we have contact with to feel genuinely seen, valued, and respected.

To work towards this culture goal, we’ve committed to 4 Shared Values designed to be lived out and not simply housed on our website and in our employee handbook. They are:

·       Care for People – When people are seen, respected, and appreciated, amazing things will happen.

·       Risk for Better – Daring to innovate is not safe. It’s a risk for better. And we take that risk.

·       Leave the Ego – We are humble with our attitudes, generous with our help and leave our ego at the door.

·       Seek the Good – We seek out opportunities to do good—even when they’re inconvenient.

Part inspiration, part accountability, part habit builders, our values keep our heads up and looking for ways we can be difference makers in our relationships. When these values are lived out, we believe a Culture of Honor will follow naturally.

Job Overview:

This role’s focus would include 3rd party audits of all our facilities across our nationwide distribution network, annual AIB/SQF audits at our MAIN warehouse, conducting shelf-life testing, consulting customers on their packaging choices and how it connects to Food Safety, ensuring best practices are in place for inventory management and traceability, work with DC managers to audit and file their current certifications, etc.

The continual focus for this role would be to remain and rise as the leader in Food Safety and offer that knowledge base and expertise to our customers. As is true for all of these roles, we want to indefinitely be the smartest people in the room for food packaging, including Food Safety.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Maintain AIB Standards documentation.
• Oversee AIB audit preparedness.
• Administer annual food safety training.
• Monthly inspections
• Work with Orkin for pest control management and documentation
• Fulfill customer requests for food safety documents.
• Use TraceGains, ReposiTrak, Food LogiQ, Safety Chain, and customer vendor portals to provide documentation as requested.
• Audit our nationwide 3PL network.
• Document DC managers’ certifications and ensure they are to standard.
• Cultivate relationships and consult. 

Starting Salary: 

$52K-$70K

Benefits:
3 weeks of PTO
9 paid holidays + Birthday off
401K starting month 13 (Nextera contributes 3% of salary, regardless of your contribution)
Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and Disability insurance + more!