Food Safety Coordinator - Russell Stover Chocolates

At Russell Stover, not only do we love chocolate, but we love our jobs! Every day we go to work exhibiting our values of excellence, innovation, entrepreneurship, responsibility, and collaboration. Working at Russell Stover you’ll be part of the leading manufacturer of boxed, seasonal, and sugar-free chocolates. For over 100 years, Russell Stover Chocolates, Whitman’s, and Pangburn’s have been crafted with the finest ingredients to bring happiness to generations. Today, we produce over 55 million pounds of chocolate annually, and our legacy brands can be found in 13 company-owned stores and over 9,000 wholesale accounts. Join our team and let’s continue making chocolate lovers happy! 

A day in the life…

As a Food Safety Coordinator,you are responsible for managing and leading all aspects of the local sites’ food safety monitoring and verification programs. You will work closely with internal business partners including but not limited to Sanitation, Quality, Operations, and Safety. You are responsible for ensuring ongoing compliance to internal and external food safety policies, procedures, SSOPs, laws and regulations.

What you will be doing…

• Oversight and verification of food safety & quality programs such as but not limited to:
  • Sanitation
  • CCPs and PRPs
  • Daily paperwork related to food safety and quality (302 Packets)
  • Environmental monitoring
• Leads the Food Safety Team
  • Annual reviews to programs
  • New product, equipment and/or building modifications.
• Write, implement, and train on plant and corporate QUAs.
• Audits
  • Weekly GMP with trending and reporting to local management.
  • Support and/or lead third party audits.
• Hold reports.
• Lead and/or participate in root cause analysis and preventative measures.
• Verification of food safety and quality programs performed by the different departments and individuals at the site.
• Lead food safety and quality initiatives.
• Support for audits.
• Back-up to the QA Manager.
• Other tasks as assigned by QA Management
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Do you have what it takes? 

(Basic Qualifications)

• Two or more years in a food safety role leading people.
• Bachelor of Science or equivalent work experience.
• Demonstrated written and verbal communications skills.
• Proficient working knowledge (intermediate level or above)
  • MS Office Suite
  • SAP/CRM experience
• Flexibility of working hours is required, which may include weekends or after normal business hours.
• Ability to stand or sit for extended periods of time.

Do you stand above the rest?

(Preferred Qualifications)

• HACCP certified.
• PCQI certified.

What it’s like at the Russell Stover Plants

• Safety. Your safety is important to us, so we provide protective gear. We also go through an in-depth Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) training on your first day and continue to share safety tips daily.
• Surroundings. You’ll be working around different machines – Schubert’s, forklifts, electric pallet jacks, and chocolate candy banks/steels.
• Activity. Some activities may require standing in one place for long periods, walking around, or climbing stairs/ladders, and routinely lift 50 lbs.
• Temperature. You will be comfortable year-round with our climate-controlled environment. Our temperatures are consistently around 63°F but could fluctuate depending on your specific role.
• Smell. You will enjoy a variety of deliciously sweet aromas and you may end your day smelling like chocolate!
• Dress code. Relaxed, with a few rules to follow for food safety, personal safety and in guidance with our good manufacturing practices (GMP). Comfortable, closed-toe shoes are required. Leather, imitation leather, rubber boots or shoes must be worn in the kitchen and other areas when working around hot liquid/product or hot water.

At Russell Stover Chocolates, we don’t just accept difference — we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, and our community. Russell Stover Chocolates is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.

We provide equal employment opportunities to all people without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition, genetic information, military service, veteran status, or any other status or characteristic protected by law.

Employment by Russell Stover Chocolates is contingent upon I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification, passing the urinalysis drug screen, education verification, and satisfactory reference and background checks.

Make Happy. Work Happy.