Location: Sacramento, CA

Employment Type: Full-time

Team: Production

Blue Bottle Coffee is a passionate and growing team of hundreds around the world, united by the simple purpose of connecting the world to delicious coffee. We roast on three coasts, make delicious drinks, clean up after ourselves, bake cookies, get change at the bank, and say please and thank you. We’re an impossibly eclectic group of coffee experts, artists, writers, sensory scientists, bakers, designers, and all-around dreamers, who also happen to be some of the most hard working and talented in the business. Join us.

About the job

The Production Food Safety Specialist will develop and drive our food safety and certification programs to ensure we are regulatory compliant, producing safe food, and working in a safe environment. This position requires working closely with the production teams and various functional groups in a fast- paced environment providing technical support and guidance so that our food safety goals and objectives are met. Verifying our food safety programs are effective, closing audit gaps, and working on continuous improvement projects are also part of the job. You will play a key role in maintaining our food safety programs, validating regulations, supporting FDA and HACCP criteria, and providing support for capital projects.

You will:

• Develop and implement food safety and certification programs and procedures for our production facilities.
• Become the subject matter expert with regulatory and internal food safety requirements.
• Perform food safety risk assessments and hazard analysis activities on site.
• Create training materials and train our teams.
• Lead audit and verification activities to ensure compliance and certification requirements are met.
• Drive and support continuous improvement and preventative action initiatives.
• Track key performance indicators and report out results.
• Work closely with production team members as their technical food safety expert.
• Support our supplier, co-manufacturing, and third-party food safety programs.
• Be an integral part of the Corporate Food Safety Team.
• Analyze plant floor data on quality attributes and provide feedback that will enable process improvements

You are:

• A change agent.
• Strong in compliance and regulatory requirements.
• Detailed, organized, process and results oriented.
• Able to work individually and in a team environment.
• A strong communicator with written and verbal skills.
• A problem-solver and not afraid of ambiguity.
• Ambitious; willing to take on a challenge, learn, and grow.

You have:

• Experience working in a food manufacturing environment.
• Ability to research and understand regulatory compliance standards and requirements.
• Passion for food safety and implementing impactful programs.
• Collaboration and decision making ability.
• Familiarity with consumer packaged goods and labeling requirements.
• Proficiency writing policies and standard operating procedures.
• Leadership ability and courage.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Food science or similar science background preferred.
• HACCP, FSMA, PCQI knowledge is +.

Physical Requirements:

• The following is a list of the physical activity, requirements, and environmental factors related to this role. Blue Bottle is committed to partnering with all candidates and employees to ensure reasonable accommodations are made to meet the following:
• Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word;
• Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication.
• Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
• Close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal and written documentation
• Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Occasionally walking, climbing stairs, and standing occur in this role.
• Environment: this role is protected within a building, but may be exposed to mild changes in temperature with heating or air conditioning.
• With addition for traveling roles: This role requires travel up to 25%. Additional walking, stooping, sitting, and mobility may be required. Exposure to outside environmental elements may be experienced due to travel through airports, airplanes, and in between facilities

A few benefits we offer:

• Health, dental, and vision coverage for eligible employees starting on your first day
• 401(k) plan
• Paid time off
• Free drinks at any of our cafes
• Discounts on any Blue Bottle food items and merchandise

At Blue Bottle Coffee, you’ll be a vital part of our guests’ experience and a crucial link in delivering the most delicious coffee we can find to every person who walks through our doors, be it in person or online. If you’re ready to bring beautiful and thoughtfully rendered experiences to life, please apply and join us.

Blue Bottle is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value an open mind, dedication to work, and a collaborative spirit. We hire based on these qualities, a job’s requirements, our business’s needs, and an applicant’s qualifications. We do not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind—in the hiring process or in the workplace.

We comply with the ADA and consider reasonable accommodation measures that may be necessary for eligible applicants/employees to perform essential functions.

We may refuse to hire relatives of present employees if doing so could result in actual or potential problems in supervision, security, safety, or morale, or if doing so could create conflicts of interest.

We will consider employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

We participate in E-Verify. We will provide the federal government with employees’ Form I-9 information to confirm authorization to work in the U.S. We will only use E-Verify once an employee has accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.

Blue Bottle requires that all of its team members are fully vaccinated (i.e., at least 14 days after the final dose of a Covid-19 vaccine) by the start of their first day of work, unless they qualify for an accommodation/exemption for medical, disability, or religious reasons.