Job Description

Job Description

The Quality & Food Safety Manager is responsible for managing the Quality & Sanitation teams. The role includes management of roughly 90 employees across the first, second, and third shifts. The role has a site-wide impact as the owner of Food Safety Systems. It is an excellent opportunity to gain experience managing a team on food safety and sanitation success. The ideal person has excellent communication and coaching skills and the ability to work cross-functionally with all departments. The role will mainly be on 1st shift, but will require leadership across all 3 shifts.

Key Responsibilities:

* Periodically review all food safety procedures and instructions, to ensure they remain current
* Review requests to change FSMS-related procedures and work instructions and direct the Food Safety Team through such reviews
* Manage the Food Safety Team and ensure that processes needed for the FSMS are established, implemented, and maintained
* Ensure the promotion of awareness of customer requirements pertaining to food safety throughout the organization
* Develop the Companys prerequisite programs and ensure that PRPs are implemented, monitored, and communicated to the appropriate parties, and periodically review PRPs
* Conduct hazard analyses
* Evaluate suppliers/vendors food safety systems; monitor and report on supplier food safety performance on an ongoing basis
* Review revisions to manufacturing practices, to ensure potential food safety hazards have been adequately addressed
* Oversee the internal food safety audit program select internal audit personnel, review results of food safety audits, ensure that corrective actions are understood, and supervise corrective actions
* Reporting on corrections and corrective actions taken at Management Review meetings
* Collect, analyze, and publish measurement data, to determine the root cause of process and product food safety problems and recommend action to resolve those problems
* Initiate and supervise product defects, to ensure adequate implementation and effectiveness
* Supervise hazard analyses, report results of analyses to top management, and periodically review food safety-related processes to ensure hazards are accounted for and controlled
* Develop team to solve day-to-day operational issues & reach performance goals
* Communicate cross-functionally to assist the team to solve operational issues
* Manage all aspects of product quality and food safety for the facility. This is inclusive of product specs, a quality manual, weight control, traceability, in-process and finished product testing and food safety and allergen. Conduct QAS self-inspections and participate in annual QAS audit program. Conduct self-inspection audits ensuring AIB and FSSC 22000 Standards requirements are met. Develop, coordinate and manage plant quality and sanitation programs as assigned
* Provide facility quality training, to include GMP, food safety, Non-GMO and allergen plans, regulatory requirements, and quality measurement systems. Be capable of delivering training in the area of continuous improvement processes
* Oversee the Sanitation functions within the department
* Conduct one to ones with technicians to ensure that expectations are being met
* Ensure that full compliance is maintained in all regulatory matters, and serve as the contact point for regulatory affairs at the site level

Qualifications/Requirements

* Bachelor Degree preferably in Business, Operations Management, or related major
* Understanding of quality, OSHA and food safety requirements in a manufacturing setting
* Knowledge of the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) is preferred
* Demonstrated leadership ability
* Highly motivated self-starter
* Project management skills
* Ability to work in an unstructured environment with the ability to make tradeoff decisions quickly
* Ability to give/receive constructive feedback
* Ability to lead a team-based approach to decision making. Demonstrated ability to work in a results-oriented, challenging environment
* Effective coaching, facilitation, presentation, and team-building skills
* Proficient in sanitation procedures and GMP/AIB requirements in a manufacturing setting
* Must have experience with one of the GFSI schematics (FSSC 22000, BRC, GFS, GRMS, etc.)
* General knowledgeable of micro-biology relating to environmental monitoring
* Proficient in sanitation procedures and GMP/AIB requirements in a manufacturing setting

Relocation Eligible: Eligible for Standard Relocation
Job Type: Regular