Food Safety Specialist (Japanese Bilingual)
JAC Recruitment
Date: 22 hours ago
City: El Monte, CA
Contract type: Full time

Position Summary
A Japanese food trading corporation is looking for a Food Safety Specialist (Japanese Bilingual) to join their team. This role involves providing essential documents, developing HACCP plans, verifying compliance, investigating non-conformities, preparing for audits, conducting internal audits, researching import regulations, and managing facility audits. It also includes frequent travel, attending company events, and participating in inventory counts.
Responsibilities
LOCATION El Monte, CA
WORK STYLE Onsite
#countryUS
A Japanese food trading corporation is looking for a Food Safety Specialist (Japanese Bilingual) to join their team. This role involves providing essential documents, developing HACCP plans, verifying compliance, investigating non-conformities, preparing for audits, conducting internal audits, researching import regulations, and managing facility audits. It also includes frequent travel, attending company events, and participating in inventory counts.
Responsibilities
- Provides essential documents to customers, including spec sheets, raw material specifications, audit certificates, and letters of guarantee.
- Develops and maintains HACCP food safety plans and prerequisite programs such as sanitation, GMPs, food defense, recall, allergen, and supplier verification.
- Verifies imported product labeling and ingredients to ensure compliance with US regulations, and researches import regulations for products under USDA/APHIS/FSIS jurisdiction.
- Investigates non-conformities, identifies root causes, implements corrective actions, and addresses customer complaints about quality discrepancies.
- Ensures all required documents are prepared for audits, HACCP verifications, and equipment calibrations, and conducts monthly internal audits to identify and address quality issues.
- Travels frequently to support other branches, attends company events outside of normal working hours, and participates in semiannual inventory counts.
- Bachelor’s Degree required; Bachelor’s Degree in Food Science or other relevant studies strongly preferred
- 2+ years of food safety or other relevant experience preferred
- Business level Japanese required
- Knowledge of food safety procedures
- Demonstrates basic Microsoft Office proficiency
- Demonstrates strong organizational skills and attention to detail
- Possesses basic mathematical knowledge such as markups, discounts, counting inventory, weight and measurement conversions, combining, etc.
- Has strong communications and interpersonal skills
- Has strong customer service and problem-solving skills
LOCATION El Monte, CA
WORK STYLE Onsite
#countryUS
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