Director of Quality and Food Safety

Bridgetown Natural Foods • Mount Juliet, TN

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About The Position

The Director of Quality & Food Safety (Q&FS) is directly responsible for continuously improving product and process, while leading a team focused on first pass quality for all Bridgetown plants. Specific areas of responsibility include Plant quality and food safety (including Sanitation), supplier quality, and customer quality.

Requirements

• BS in Microbiology or Food Science
• 10+ years of experience in Quality Assurance (Food, Beverage and/or Nutraceutical)
• 5+ years of plant-based food safety and quality experience
• Experience with industry standards and regulations such as: SQF, BRC, HACCP, GFSI
• Experience with allergen management, kosher, organic certifications
• Ability to understand and communicate instructions in English

Responsibilities

• Lead team of QA professionals, in order to ensure oversight of all appropriate quality systems
• Interface with customers with Compliance team on quality, food safety requirements, investigations, or improvement plans
• Assure compliance with all customer requirements, audit standards and regulatory requirements by working with plant QA, Operations, and Maintenance teams
• Partner cross-functionally to integrate Q&FS perspective into business planning and execution
• Develop and implement appropriate strategies to drive continuous improvement and regulatory compliance
• Develop programs to track and reduce HOLDs and non-conformances
• Develop, implement, verify and test effectiveness of quality systems affecting all aspects of manufacturing
• Review and analyze data in order to recognize trends and opportunities for improvement/corrective action
• Establish programs and training with all appropriate personnel, GMPs, HACCP, and other quality systems
• Ensure supplier quality issues from the plants are investigated and addressed in partnership with Compliance Team
• Ensure customer quality issues are investigated and robust corrective action/preventive action plans are developed and implemented as defined
• Maintain proper departmental staffing levels and employee performance evaluations
• Overall succession planning and development of Quality Department staff
• Travel up to 25-50% of time as required to support Oregon and Tennessee sites
• Participate in New Product Development initiatives as part of a cross functional team

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees