Responsibilities

Set food safety strategy, program standards, and priorities for sweetgreen, partnering with company leadership on major initiatives from concept through measurable results and using risk, audit, and regulatory data to focus effort and investment where it matters most.
Serve as the technical authority for the Food Safety team, guiding regional partners on complex investigations, high-risk escalations, and consistent application of standards across the fleet.
Own food safety performance for the NYC Region, partnering directly with operators to deliver world-class standards in the restaurants and maintain compliance with federal, state, and local regulatory requirements.
Own the NYC Region's third-party audit and pest control programs, reviewing audit results, sanitation violations, customer complaints, temperature monitoring, and pest activity, and driving corrective action to completion with timely documentation.
Build the systems the function runs on, including SOPs, training materials, crisis management protocols, and reporting that tracks food safety and quality performance, evaluates restaurant-level compliance, and surfaces risk early.
Build and maintain relationships with local health departments, guiding operators through inspections, violations, and requests, and keeping sweetgreen current on changes in government regulation and industry best practice.
Keep open lines with partners across the company to surface food safety and quality issues early and turn them into continuous improvement opportunities.
Deep technical expert with command of pathogens and microbes associated with food production, microbiological testing, HACCP, SOPs, and the government and industry regulations, codes, and standards that govern food safety and quality.
Influential without authority, able to build credibility with operators and executives and move standards forward through expertise and relationships.
Problem solver who leads with root cause analysis and continuous process improvement rather than one-time fixes.
Data fluent, comfortable working in food safety management and reporting systems and turning audit, complaint, and monitoring data into a clear picture of where risk sits.
Clear communicator who can move between a restaurant walkthrough and an executive readout without losing the thread.

Senior Food Safety Manager at Sweetgreen · LumiJobs

Senior Food Safety Manager

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