You lead the food safety compliance and regulatory agenda for Tate’s Bake Shop on Long Island, New York, owning the Food Safety Plan, HACCP, and related food safety agendas for the business while leading a document and compliance specialist.

How You Will Contribute

As the Compliance Manager you will develop, implement, and oversee the regulatory compliance strategy for the quality function. You are responsible for providing leadership and technical assistance to site operations in the areas of food safety and regulatory compliance, including HACCP, FSSC and FSMA. Under the direction of Quality Assurance Manager, you are responsible for managing all food safety regulatory affairs.  You are also responsible for direction, implementation, and maintenance of the facility's food safety/regulatory programs.  In this role, you will also support the effective management of food safety challenges pertaining to ownership areas for the business.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise in the areas of FSMA, HACCP, food safety, compliance systems, and regulatory awareness. 

• Responsible for monitoring and maintaining the facilities’ QCMS execution, ensuring compliance to regulatory, federal, and local laws, including External Manufacturers (EM).
• Ownership and execution of HACCP management, compliance documentation and training support for plant projects and initiatives in the manufacturing environment.
• Responsible for overall CAPA management and timely completion, including the verification of CAPA effectiveness and training. Conduct RCA and Corrective action reporting in the event of program, compliance deviations.
• Leads all internal and external Food safety & auditing activities and CAPA for all Tate’s facilities.
• Assist in all third-party audits; facilitate plant readiness and inspection process flow 
• Performs assessments/audits of manufacturing systems to ensure records, procedures, processing, packaging and equipment are in compliance with all federal, state and other regulatory requirements for all Tate’s sites and External Manufacturers, warehouse/storage facilities.
• Responsible for maintaining training programs all personnel who’s job duties include execution of preventive controls, compliance tasks. Develop & deploy compliance-based training program for the Tate’s supply chain function (manufacturing, CS&L, retail)
• Manage Ingredients and finished product testing for internal and external manufacturing plants, per sampling plan to ensure product specifications are managed as required.
• Oversees compliance to product claims/certifications (Kosher, vegan, gluten free, etc)
• Acts as liaison between facilities’ and BU Quality, Food Safety for compliance matters and Global, BU QP (Quality Policy) changes. Conduct escalations to BU and coordinates actions as needed.  
• Identify and escalate supplier compliance issues, including non-conforming ingredients, packaging materials and storage, transit conditions.
• Support Hygienic Design Review of existing equipment and infrastructure and Hygienic Design Assessments for new projects and equipment
• Assists in the development of new quality/regulatory systems, leveraging QP and HACCP to ensure compliance using the Management of Change approach
• Participate in functional quality teams and product quality improvement initiatives.

• Work closely with EHS Manager, Operations, and BU Food Safety to assure that all safety protocols are adhered to when implementing changes on the production floor
• Supervise and coach direct reports in the performance of assigned duties.

• Responsible for QCMS, FSSC programs and all other duties as assigned by the QA Manager

What You Will Bring

Food Safety and Program Compliance Leadership, including FSMA and Regulatory expertise, in addition to proven experience leading hourly teams.

• Demonstrated HACCP implementation, ownership and management
• Deep knowledge of regulatory compliance, FSMA and ISO-22000 (FSSC) or comparable program
• Strong critical thinking skills to evaluate compliance changes and identify the best approach for implementation in a manufacturing environment
• Foundational knowledge of preventative controls, program management, and state, federal regulatory compliance in a post-FSMA environment
• Strong understanding and application of GMP Requirements in a food manufacturing facility
• Working knowledge of food manufacturing operations, sanitation and maintenance; clear understanding how regulatory compliance impacts each function of the business
• Ability to influence, engage, and motivate site teams (operations, maintenance, sanitation) to execute food safety and compliance initiatives to deliver strong results
• Engages key stakeholders in strategy alignment and implementation
• Excellent communication skills, augmenting to the audience from hourly associate to executive function
• Solution-oriented mind set with creative problem solving approach
• Experience in high regulatory standards environment
• Self-motivated; strong ability to work independently with limited supervision
• Proven organizational and project management skills
• Strong adherence to process and

More about this role

Education / Certifications:

• Must have 2-year degree in Food Sanitation and/or Food Science, Technical or Vocational or equivalent professional experience.
• HACCP and PCQI certifications required

Job specific requirements:

• At least five years of Quality Compliance experience in a food manufacturing environment; dairy or similar sector preferred
• Foundational knowledge of FSMA, Preventative Controls, HACCP, Regulatory compliance Sanitation, and Food Safety principles.
• Bilingual (Spanish/English) preferred
• Position is full-time, in-person, and flexibility is required. Applicants must be available to work any shift, including weekends and overtime as needed.
• Ability to work in a manufacturing environment with known allergens such as: milk, eggs, nuts (tree nuts), wheat and soy is required
• Proven organizational and planning skills resulting in robust program compliance planning and execution
• Demonstrated ability to influence peers to drive program execution
• Excellent communication and change management skills that result in strong adaptation and cultural change
• Solution-oriented problem solving, ensuring actions are robust, executable and sustainable

The United States is the largest market in the Mondelēz International family with a significant employee and manufacturing footprint. Here, weproduce our well-loved household favorites to provide our consumers with the right snack, at the right moment, made the right way. We have corporate offices, sales, manufacturing and distribution locations throughout the U.S. to ensure our iconic brands—including Oreo and  Chips Ahoy! cookies, Ritz, Wheat Thins and Triscuit crackers, and Swedish Fish and Sour Patch Kids confectionery products —are close at hand for our consumers across the country.