- Set food safety strategy, program standards, and priorities across sweetgreen
- Partner with company leadership on major initiatives from concept through measurable results
- Use risk, audit, and regulatory data to focus effort and investment
- Serve as technical authority for the Food Safety team
- Guide regional partners on complex investigations and high-risk escalations
- Own food safety performance for the NYC Region
- Partner with operators to maintain federal, state, and local regulatory compliance
- Own the NYC Region's third-party audit and pest control programs
- Review audit results, sanitation violations, customer complaints, temperature monitoring, and pest activity
- Drive corrective actions to completion with timely documentation
- Build SOPs, training materials, crisis management protocols, and food safety reporting systems
- Track food safety and quality performance and surface risk early
- Build relationships with local health departments and guide operators through inspections and violations
- Monitor changes in government regulation and industry best practice
- Surface food safety and quality issues and turn them into continuous improvement opportunities
Requirements
- 10+ years in food safety or quality assurance, ideally in a multi-unit restaurant or QSR environment
- Track record building and scaling food safety programs across a growing footprint
- Direct experience owning third-party audit programs and regulatory relationships
- Experience serving as the technical escalation point for a distributed team or field organization
- Bachelor of Science degree; preference for Food Science, Microbiology, Biological Science, or a related discipline
- Experience influencing senior leaders on decisions that carry operational and financial consequence
- Command of pathogens and microbes associated with food production, microbiological testing, HACCP, SOPs, and government and industry regulations, codes, and standards governing food safety and quality
- Comfortable working in food safety management and reporting systems
- Root cause analysis and continuous process improvement
- Comfortable with travel up to 75% of the time
- Self-directed operator with high integrity who takes initiative and delivers with limited oversight
Core Competencies
Demonstrates extensive expertise in food safety strategy, regulatory compliance, and quality assurance within multi-unit restaurant environments. Proven ability to build and scale food safety programs, manage third-party audits, and influence senior leadership on critical operational decisions.
Highest-signal resume keywords
- Food Safety Strategy Development
- Third-Party Audit Management
- Regulatory Compliance Expertise
- Pathogen and Microbe Knowledge
- Root Cause Analysis
Hard Skills
- Food Safety Management
- Quality Assurance
- HACCP
- Microbiological Testing
- SOP Development
- Risk Assessment
- Continuous Process Improvement
- Data Analysis
- Crisis Management
- Temperature Monitoring
Soft Skills
- Self-directed
- High Integrity
- Initiative
- Relationship Building
- Influencing Senior Leaders
Industry Keywords
- Multi-unit Restaurant
- QSR Environment
- Food Science
- Microbiology
- Biological Science
- Government Regulations
- Industry Standards
- Sanitation Violations
- Pest Control Programs
- Health Department Inspections
Tools & Technologies
- Food Safety Reporting Systems
- Audit Management Systems
- Regulatory Compliance Tools
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Senior Food Safety Manager Arbeitgeber: Jobtailor
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