Food Safety Subject Matter Expert (SME) (Remote) chez WorkForge
WorkForge · Kansas City, États-Unis d'Amérique · Remote
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Are you passionate about food safety and ensuring the highest global standards for quality and compliance? Do you thrive at the intersection of expertise, collaboration, and continuous improvement? As a Food Safety Subject Matter Expert (SME) at WorkForge, you will play a pivotal role in shaping industry-leading eLearning experiences that equip professionals with the skills and confidence to uphold safety, quality, and certification excellence across the food industry.
In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to influence the next generation of food safety learning — from auditing practices to learning pathways — by contributing your deep subject knowledge to our 2026 Food Safety and Food Safety Maintenance roadmap. Your ability to analyze trends, recommend learning strategies, and support high-impact content development will help learners and organizations stay compliant, competitive, and informed in a rapidly evolving industry.
If you’re ready to shape the future of food safety learning and bring your expertise to a collaborative, forward-thinking team — we’d love to hear from you. Submit your resume and a short summary of your experience, and let’s build safer, smarter learning together.
Why You’ll Love Working Here
- Meaningful Impact: Shape the future of food safety education by helping professionals build safer, more sustainable global food systems.
- Thought Leadership: Share your expertise through eLearning, articles, and webinars that reach thousands of industry professionals.
- Flexible Collaboration: Work remotely with a dynamic team of instructional designers, developers, and marketing professionals.
- Creative Partnership: Collaborate on engaging, high-quality learning experiences that make a difference.
Key Responsibilities
1. Content Development & Review
- Partner with instructional designers to build, review, audit, and update eLearning modules aligned with the 2026 Food Safety and Food Safety Maintenance roadmap.
- Ensure accuracy, compliance, and relevance of course material based on current regulations, practices, and certification standards.
- Provide expert recommendations to enhance learning experiences, ensuring content is clear, actionable, and aligned with industry best practices.
- Conduct quality reviews and suggest updates as new industry data, regulations, or trends emerge.
2. Trend Analysis & Thought Leadership
- Monitor emerging trends, technologies, and innovations in the food manufacturing and safety sectors.
- Advise the content team on timely topics for new learning modules or micro-learning series.
- Contribute to marketing initiatives by authoring short articles or participating in webinars, bringing expert insights to broader audiences.
3. Standards & Certification Alignment
- Serve as a guide in developing learning paths for key auditing and compliance frameworks including BRCGS, SQF, and other GFSI-recognized programs.
- Help map WorkForge’s eLearning catalog to GFSI schemes to create cohesive and role-specific learning journeys.
- Provide structured recommendations for aligning content to job roles within food manufacturing, auditing, and compliance functions.
4. Collaboration & Project Partnership
- Work cross-functionally with content developers, learning designers, and marketing teams to ensure technical accuracy and instructional effectiveness.
- Provide timely feedback and input during content development cycles.
- Occasionally support internal training and orientation sessions for instructional teams on core food safety topics or changes in regulatory frameworks
Required Skills & Abilities
- Passionate about digging into food safety details and excited to turn that knowledge into learning that raises industry standards.
- Proven professional experience in food safety, quality assurance, or auditing within food manufacturing or processing environments.
- Deep understanding of BRCGS, SQF, and other GFSI certification schemes.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to translate technical standards into accessible learning content.
- Strong attention to detail, research ability, and commitment to accuracy.
- Proficient in remote collaboration tools (Teams, Google Workspace, etc.).
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience contributing to training or eLearning initiatives.
- Certifications such as SQF Practitioner, BRCGS Professional, PCQI, or equivalent.
- Familiarity with instructional design principles and adult learning methodologies.
- Published writing, speaking engagements, or webinar participation in the food safety field.
Other Details
- Engagement Type: Contract / Part-Time
- Time Commitment: 2–4 hours per week (occasionally up to 8 hours, with some weeks at 0 hours)
- Location: Remote
