McDonald’s Food Safety Manager Vacancy – Apply Online
McDonald’s Food Safety Manager McDonald’s is proud to be one of the most recognized brands in the world, with restaurants in over 100 countries and billions of customers served each year. As the global leader in the foodservice industry, we have a legacy of innovation and hard work that continues to drive us. Today, we are growing with velocity and are focused on modernizing our experiences, not to make a different McDonald’s, but to build a better McDonald’s.
Job Title: Restaurant Food Safety Manager (Public Health Regulatory)- Remote
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Department: Supply Chain
Req Id: REF400E
Qualifications for McDonald’s Food Safety Manager
- You have a Bachelors’ of Science Degree in microbiology, food science, public health or related field. Master’s degree preferred.
- You hold a Certified Professional –Food Safety (CP-FS) credential. Holding a
- Registered Environmental Health Specialist/Registered Sanitarian (REHS/RS) is a plus.
- You have 8+ years’ of experience in public health and food safety.
- You demonstrate a high degree of proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, or similar tools
- You are analytical and detail-oriented; an ability to understand the detail but able to
- summarize and present key findings and recommendations
- You possess a strong working knowledge of the current version of the FDA Model Food Code.
- You have experience conducting public health or retail food safety inspections of restaurants.
- You have experience working for a public health department in the area of risk based food safety inspections and regulatory oversite.
- You have experience working for or with a restaurant company or companies to improve regulatory compliance.
- You are able to identify food safety risks when observing food handling procedures.
- Clearly articulate thoughts and ideas in verbal and written communication.
Utilize systems and good administrative practices to maintain an efficient work schedule.Excellent problem-solving skills - Resourceful and professionally persistent; able to problem solve and search for solutions using internal and external network/sources
- McDonald’s Food Safety Manager Organized and able to effectively lead a number of responsibilities/projects at once
- Able to influence, educate, and train internal partners
- Forms relationships based on trust, honesty, and a genuine desire to be a strong partner
- Comfortable professionally expressing opinions, recommendations, and concerns to peers, managers, and executives alike
- Capable of working effectively in multi-disciplinary teams
- Demonstrated ability to self-start, resolving work steps based upon management direction
- Able to align their own activities with the group’s goals and strategies
- Possess natural curiosity, asking questions when necessary to understand a problem
- A “no excuse” mentality, taking accountability for mistakes/errors while remaining reflective to learn from them and improve
Job Description
- Work collaboratively to align McDonald’s food safety standards and procedures for the restaurants with the current version of the FDA Model Food Code and other changes to State and local food code regulations.
- Provide food safety regulatory support and guidance to our field operations teams and owner-operators to help resolve health department opportunities and help protect the brand.
- McDonald’s Food Safety Manager Identify standard methodologies and solutions to mitigate or resolve current regulatory compliance opportunities.
- Maintain a health department inspection results scorecard to track and report to leadership on food safety results and trends.
- Proactively anticipate and recognize compliance opportunities, major performance trends, regulatory developments that could adversely affect food safety.
- Summarize and communicate key changes to State food code regulations to help our restaurants be in compliance.
- Form relationships and trust with our network of key health department officials by participating in regulatory meetings and conferences.
- Help provide training and support related to health department regulations and interactions to our network of Operations food safety leads
- Apply for variances to gain the approval of McDonald’s procedures when necessary or requested by a health department jurisdiction.
- McDonald’s Food Safety Manager Work collaboratively in a cross-functional environment to mitigate food safety opportunities as needed.
- Assist in integrating food safety into new equipment, food procedures and products
