Senior Food Safety Manager

🕒 September 11

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $110k - $147k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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sweetgreen

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2007

🏨 Hospitality

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

💰 $150M Series I on 2019-09

Hospitality • Marketing • Logistics

sweetgreen is a fast-casual dining chain focused on providing fresh, healthy, and craveable food options. The company offers a diverse menu featuring salads, warm bowls, and seasonal dishes made with high-quality ingredients. With a strong emphasis on sustainability, local sourcing, and community impact, sweetgreen also offers convenient online ordering and delivery through its app, allowing customers to enjoy their meals on-the-go. The company engages in collaborations and innovations in the fast-casual dining space, aiming to scale its operations while maintaining its commitment to fresh and nutritious meals.

📋 Description

• 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

🏖️ Benefits

• Highly competitive pay + bonus plan • Three different medical plans to suit your and your family's needs • Dental and Vision insurance • Flexible PTO plan • 401k program • Employee HSA and FSA • Complimentary greens • An opportunity to make a real impact on the people around you, both by growing them and by connecting them to real food • To live the sweetlife and celebrate your passion + purpose • A collaborative team of people who live our core values and have your back • A clear career path with opportunities for development, both personally and professionally • Free sweetgreen swag