Food Safety Assurance Specialist

Company: The Mennel Milling Company
Location: Fostoria
Posted on: April 2, 2026

Job Description:

Title: Food Safety Assurance Specialist Department: Innovation Reports To: Refer to location organizational chart Flip your Career At Mennel, we believe in doing right and bringing our best to our people who are helping to feed the world. We promote teamwork and recognize the individual contributions everyone plays in the overall success of the company. JOB SUMMARY: In this role, you will help sustain Mennel’s tradition of excellence established in 1886 as well as support our food safety programs and mission to reliably deliver superior quality, uniformity, and service. The purpose of this role is to help ensure full compliance with all applicable regulations and standards as well as to achieve Mennel’s goal of Operational Excellence. One of the ways this will be accomplished is by conducting food safety related audits at all The Mennel Milling Company production locations to ensure the production of safe food for humans and animals. This position will sustain the Mission and Motto and Food Safety and Quality Statement of the Mennel Milling Company. PRIMARY WORK SHIFT: This position works Monday through Friday 8AM – 5PM. Will vary, depending on workload. This position can accommodate a remote (home) working location as this role will require significant travel (greater than 75%) to the food production facilities. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily with or without accommodation. Follow all food and personal safety rules and regulations in respect to GMP’s, OSHA, HACCP, the Global Food Safety Initiative, the US FDA Food Safety Modernization Act as stated in the FS&Q Statement, and sanitation guidelines as set forth by the company as listed in Corporate Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) and attend all required training sessions. Maintain the department/facility in an everyday audit ready condition. Schedules and conducts internal audits to assure consistent application of Mennel’s Food Safety, Quality & Regulatory programs across all human and animal food production sites. Schedules and conducts internal reviews of Food Safety Plans, Food Defense Plans, and Environmental Monitoring Programs to assure compliance with food safety regulations across all human and animal food production sites. Serve as the primary contact for any applicable 3rd party, customer audits, or federal/state/local agency audits, including unannounced visits. Assist the Area Managers in the response to audit activities and ensure the required CAPAs are completed in a successful and timely fashion. Serve as the key corporate resource to the human and animal food production sites in maintaining compliance with all Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) and Food Safety standards, including providing guidance on the implementation of all necessary programs, policies, and SOP’s. Active contributor within the Food Safety, Quality & Regulatory team, acting as a resource to help improve the strategies, policies, and procedures of the program. This position may require additional responsibilities as defined by the Director of Food Safety, Quality & Regulatory. Ability to travel up to >75% Other duties may be assigned. SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: This position has no supervisory duties. QUALIFICATIONS: The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required to perform this job. A Bachelor’s degree in food science, chemistry, quality assurance, manufacturing, operations, or related discipline is preferred. 10 years of experience in a food/beverage or consumer goods manufacturing environment is required. Experience in Quality Assurance, EHS or Regulatory Compliance is preferred. Detailed level of understanding of Food Safety & Quality Standards, Food Safety Plans, Preventative Controls and Prerequisite Programs is required. Must be able to complete PCQI training certification. Demonstrated ability working with GFSI auditing requirements is desired. Active Third-Party GFSI Auditor Certification is preferred. Those with inactive certifications will be considered. Ability to train others on Food Safety & Quality standards. Must have excellent technical writing, speaking, and presentation skills. Must possess excellent computer skills. Must have solid communication skills and be able to interact and productively communicate with all levels of the organization. Must possess ability to learn and analyze new concepts quickly. Must be a self-starter and have the capability to effectively work independently. LANGUAGE SKILLS: Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, memos, procedures, and plans. Ability to write reports, complete checklists and other basic documentation and correspondence. Ability to effectively present information or data in one-on-one and small group situations to co-workers, supervisors, and managers. MATHEMATICAL SKILLS: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. REASONING ABILITY: Must use solid judgment when making decisions. Must have ability to quickly recognize and plan for changing work duties and events. PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to perform maintenance tasks, reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, twist, crouch, or crawl, and talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds or more. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to conditions that are typical to an office environment.

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