Food Safety Analyst

Location: Atlanta Support Center, United States

Company

hirify.global is a multi-brand restaurant company operating more than 33,300 Arby’s, Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin’, Jimmy John’s, and SONIC restaurants worldwide.

What you will do

• Manage assigned third-party food safety assessment programs, including administration, content, calibration, and performance.
• Analyze assessment, health department, and broader food safety performance data; maintain dashboards and reporting tools to identify trends, risks, and support priorities.
• Develop corrective and preventive actions with restaurant, field, Operations, Culinary, and cross-functional partners.
• Coordinate responses to guest complaints, health department matters, regulatory inquiries, foodborne illness concerns, and critical food safety events, including follow-up, verification, documentation, and communication.
• Evaluate food safety requirements for chemicals, sanitation systems, equipment, menu items, processes, procedures, and technology, and recommend practical improvements.
• Coordinate cook validation, temperature monitoring, process validation, data analysis, and food safety communications for varied audiences.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Safety, Food Science, Biology, Culinary, or a related field.
• Nationally Recognized Food Protection Manager Certification.
• At least 2 years of experience in retail food safety, regulatory, quality assurance, food safety training, or related food industry work.
• Experience applying food safety principles within restaurant operations, equipment, process design, regulatory, quality assurance, or related environments.
• Working knowledge of HACCP, current cGMP, FDA Food Code, and general microbiology.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, interpersonal, verbal, written, and presentation skills, including the ability to interpret performance data, identify trends and risks, and communicate technical concepts clearly.
• Ability to build collaborative relationships, support a positive food safety culture, manage assigned programs and priorities independently, and exercise sound judgment within established standards and escalation protocols.
• Guest-focused, brand-protection mindset; practical understanding of restaurant operations; detail-oriented and organized approach.
• Ability to travel and working knowledge of Outlook, Excel, Power BI, Word, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint, and OneNote.

Nice to have

• Certified Professional – Food Safety (CP-FS) credential preferred; if not already obtained, the credential is required upon hire.
• Restaurant experience preferred.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time position based at the Atlanta Support Center.
• Travel may be 25% or greater depending on business needs, including overnight and weekend travel.
• Work involves collaboration with restaurants, field teams, Operations, Culinary, and cross-functional partners.
• Two positions are available.