The Global Food Safety Manager leads food safety policy design, compliance, and continuous improvement across global facilities, ensuring adherence to regulations and elevating safety programs.
Position Title: Global Food Safety Manager
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Grade: Grade 06
Requisition ID: 39418
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.
About the role .
The Food Safety Manager will lead the design, implementation, and management of regional food safety policies for all Global McCain facilities. This role drives compliance with food safety laws, champions continuous improvement across manufacturing sites, and provides expert leadership on Preventative Controls, HACCP, 3rd-party audits, and global regulatory requirements. You'll partner across regions and with sanitation teams to strengthen food safety programs, elevate key performance metrics, and ensure alignment to global standards.
This role evaluates facility practices, conducts risk-based assessments, and drives data-based improvements to global food safety systems.
What you'll be doing.
What you'll need to be successful.
About McCain .
Click Here to learn more about McCain and how we provide you with opportunities to make an impact that matters.
Leadership principles .
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
The McCain experience .
We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you'll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we're better together.
#LI-MG1
Compensation Package : $97,500.00 - $130,000.00 . USD annually + Bonus eligibility
The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education and training, and other organizational needs.
Benefits: At McCain, we're on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and well-being at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person's needs are unique and ensure our benefits & well-being programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement. Well-being programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned with country, provincial and state governing plans and can vary by work level, location and nature of the role. Additional benefit detail available during the application process.
Your well-being matters to us, and we're here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work - and at home.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree that this will be handled in accordance with McCain's Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy , as applicable. You can understand how your personal information is being handled here.
Job Family: Supply Chain & Logistics
Location(s): US - United States of America : Illinois : Oakbrook Terrace || CA - Canada : New Brunswick : Florenceville-Bristol || CA - Canada : Ontario : Toronto || US - United States of America : Illinois : Chicago || US - United States of America : Illinois : Lisle
Company: McCain Foods USA, Inc.
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Grade: Grade 06
Requisition ID: 39418
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.
About the role .
The Food Safety Manager will lead the design, implementation, and management of regional food safety policies for all Global McCain facilities. This role drives compliance with food safety laws, champions continuous improvement across manufacturing sites, and provides expert leadership on Preventative Controls, HACCP, 3rd-party audits, and global regulatory requirements. You'll partner across regions and with sanitation teams to strengthen food safety programs, elevate key performance metrics, and ensure alignment to global standards.
This role evaluates facility practices, conducts risk-based assessments, and drives data-based improvements to global food safety systems.
What you'll be doing.
- Champion and strengthen a world-class food safety culture.
- Coach and develop regional teams to build technical food safety capability.
- Lead and support global food safety programs, policies, and standards.
- Monitor, trend, and report Food Safety KPIs for compliance and effectiveness.
- Support foreign material prevention programs and global mitigation strategies.
- Stay ahead of emerging global food safety issues and communicate key insights.
- Review and improve programs such as Environmental Monitoring (EMP).
- Serve as SME for detection and mitigation technologies (X-ray, metal detection).
- Provide global support for cook instruction validations and technical problem-solving.
- Lead investigations on major food safety issues and escalate as needed.
- Partner cross-functionally to assess and mitigate risks across the supply chain.
- Support certification and maintenance of GFSI standards.
- Facilitate global alignment through monthly connects with regional FSQ leaders.
What you'll need to be successful.
- Experience leading food safety across global or multi-site manufacturing environments.
- Strong technical expertise in food safety, risk assessment, auditing, and data analysis.
- Ability to make balanced, data-driven decisions in complex environments.
- Excellent communication, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
- In-depth knowledge of global food safety regulations (US, Canada, EU, Asia, etc.).
- Bachelor's or Master's in Food Science, Microbiology, Biology, or related field.
- 8+ years of food safety experience with demonstrated leadership capability.
- Proficiency in HACCP, FSMA, PCQI, GFSI, and experience with major regulatory bodies (FDA, CFIA, etc.).
- Strong understanding of manufacturing operations, hygienic design, sanitation, and continuous improvement.
About McCain .
Click Here to learn more about McCain and how we provide you with opportunities to make an impact that matters.
Leadership principles .
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
The McCain experience .
We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you'll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we're better together.
#LI-MG1
Compensation Package : $97,500.00 - $130,000.00 . USD annually + Bonus eligibility
The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education and training, and other organizational needs.
Benefits: At McCain, we're on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and well-being at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person's needs are unique and ensure our benefits & well-being programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement. Well-being programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned with country, provincial and state governing plans and can vary by work level, location and nature of the role. Additional benefit detail available during the application process.
Your well-being matters to us, and we're here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work - and at home.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree that this will be handled in accordance with McCain's Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy , as applicable. You can understand how your personal information is being handled here.
Job Family: Supply Chain & Logistics
Location(s): US - United States of America : Illinois : Oakbrook Terrace || CA - Canada : New Brunswick : Florenceville-Bristol || CA - Canada : Ontario : Toronto || US - United States of America : Illinois : Chicago || US - United States of America : Illinois : Lisle
Company: McCain Foods USA, Inc.
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