SUMMARY:
This position is responsible for the daily management of activities of the FSQA department to include food safety programs, micro and chemistry lab, specification adherence and product quality for case ready products within their assigned facility. The position report to the FSQA Manager who will oversee the entire department. Tasks assigned may include special projects, departmental budgets, turnover, and safety. Responsibilities include: daily oversight of production practices including raw material receiving requirements; preoperational and operational sanitation; finished product quality and Food Safety Systems; insuring all Tyson FSQA policies and procedures are followed; monitoring, verification and documentation associated with adherence to government regulations; developing, implementing and maintaining the HACCP and SSOP based inspection programs; insuring finished product conforms to customer product and label specifications; report product issues and audit results to plant and corporate FSQA, plant management, corporate sales, R&D and operations. Responsibilities may also include interacting with customers and their agents for product showings, plant tours and audits. This position will oversee investigation/response to quality related customer complaints; monitoring microbiological results, conducting bacterial swabs, and generating shelf-life/environmental graphs; performing research and development activities, conducting and promoting sanitation training and education to employees; responsible for implementing and maintaining case ready food safety and quality programs and for the selecting, training, and managing of FSQA Supervisors and FSQA Technicians. This position is responsible for food safety, food quality and legality
REQUIREMENTS:
Education: Requires broad knowledge in poultry processing, scientific
and technical fields. This knowledge is normally acquired through a
bachelor's degree in an academic field directly related and essential to
the job and is preferred.
Experience: 2+ years in a food manufacturing preferred. Prior
supervisory experience preferred. HACCP certified preferred; must have
broad knowledge of HACCP, USDA, GMP, & SSOP's.
Computer Skills: Standard computer skills required; knowledge of
Microsoft Office programs (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, One Note
and Skype), Plant View, SAP and other Tyson mandatory operating programs
to generate spreadsheets and develop templates for use by plant
management and corporate FSQA, sales, R&D and operations.
Communication Skills: Excellent communication skills required, both
written and verbal, demonstrating the proven ability to correspond with
all levels - line team members to corporate management.
Supervisory: Manage crewing, labor, and attendance of the 2nd shift
FSQA department.
Work Shift:
2ND SHIFT (United States of America)
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Springdale, AR
Tyson Foods, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a food company worldwide. It operates through four segments: Beef, Pork, Chicken, and Prepared Foods. The company processes live fed cattle and live market hogs; fabricates dressed beef and pork carcasses into primal and sub-primal meat cuts, as well as case ready beef and pork, and fully-cooked meats; and raises and processes chickens into fresh, frozen, and value-added chicken products.
It also supplies poultry breeding stock; sells allied products, such as hides and meats; and manufactures and markets frozen and refrigerated food products, including ready-to-eat sandwiches, flame-grilled hamburgers, Philly steaks, pepperoni, bacon, breakfast sausage, turkey, lunchmeat, hot dogs, flour and corn tortilla products, appetizers, snacks, prepared meals, ethnic foods, side dishes, meat dishes, breadsticks, and processed meats. The company offers its products primarily under the Tyson, Jimmy Dean, Hillshire Farm, Ball Park, Wright, Aidells, ibp, State Fair, Gallo Salame, and Golden Island brands.
It sells its products through its sales staff to grocery retailers, grocery wholesalers, meat distributors, warehouse club stores, military commissaries, industrial food processing companies, chain restaurants or their distributors, live markets, international export companies, and domestic distributors who serve restaurants and foodservice operations, such as plant and school cafeterias, convenience stores, hospitals, and other vendors, as well as through independent brokers and trading companies. The company has a collaboration with IdentiGEN Ltd. Tyson Foods, Inc. was founded in 1935 and is headquartered in Springdale, Arkansas.