Food Safety and Quality Assurance Coordinator

Michigan Sugar•Sebewaing, MI

7h•Onsite

About The Position

At Michigan Sugar, our purpose is Making Life Sweeter, and our mission is Creating Growth and Opportunity. Michigan Sugar Company has an immediate, full-time opportunity for a Food Safety and Quality Assurance Coordinator (FSQA Coordinator), located at the Sebewaing facility. The FSQA Coordinator will act as the Preventive Controls Qualified Individual (PCQI) for Human Food and Animal Food and/or Safe Quality Foods (SQF) Practitioner for the site(s) and will manage overall development, implementation, review and maintenance of the Food & Feed Safety Management Systems and the Quality Assurance Management System. This position will require travel to other Michigan Sugar Company facilities, as needed.

Requirements

Ability to deliver results working within collective bargaining agreement
Self-starter and motivated to implement change
Working knowledge of Microsoft office software programs (Outlook, Word, Excel, Power point)
Ability to solve problems and make decisions
Flexible and able to work in fast paced and varying environments
Ability to work well with others and in a team environment
Leading by demonstrating ethics and integrity, displaying drive and purpose, demonstrated capability to learn, managing self, increasing self-awareness
Provides model behavior to demonstrate corporate values
Demonstrates excellence in oral and written communication
HACCP certification
Completion of SQF course and successfully pass the SQF exam
General factory safety requirements (right to know)
Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs)
Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)
Food Defense
Integrated Pest Management
Internal Auditing

Nice To Haves

BS degree in Chemistry, Biology, Food Science or related field
Food & beverage, animal food, or pharmaceutical experience
2 years Food Safety or Quality Management Systems experience

Responsibilities

Leads cross-functional team members, including site management, and other required personnel, in developing, implementing and reviewing site policies and procedures, related to the Food & Feed Safety Systems and Quality Management Systems.
Supports the establishment of corporate policies and procedures.
Ensures products shipped from the facility meet all regulatory, internal, and customer specifications.
Is the site point of contact for Food & Feed Safety and Quality Assurance escalations.
Conducts review of Food & Feed Safety Plans and revises plans, as required.
Leads/facilitates FSQA meetings and site management reviews.
Develops and oversees the employee training program as it relates to Food & Feed Safety.
Provides annual orientation and refresher trainings, and ensures completion of specific job training.
Maintains training skills registers and training records.
Provides/facilitates trainings as necessary.
Documents Corrective Actions and Preventive Actions (CAPAs) related to Food & Feed Safety and Quality Assurance, works with team members to ensure that CAPAs are completed.
Works with appropriate Departments to investigate Customer Complaints.
Works with Customer Service Representatives on providing solutions to the affected Customer.
Oversees the 3rd party managed Integrated Pest Management Program.
Reviews reports, issues work orders/corrective actions and monitors trends for Integrated Pest Management.
Conducts reviews for necessary changes to the Food & Feed Safety System.
Approves process or equipment changes (from a food safety standpoint) and performs/facilitates validation studies.
Updates documentation, as necessary.
Maintains documents for the Food & Feed Safety Systems.
Reviews documents, issues updates, tracks changes, and revises documents as necessary.
Is a member of the Crisis Management Team.
Schedules, conducts and /or facilitates mock crisis exercises.
Oversees the development, review and maintenance of the Food Defense Plan.
Supports Corporate FSQA Team with the Food Fraud Program.
Directs and reviews trace exercises for Mock Recall and Traceability Program.
Documents findings, issues corrective actions and follows-up as needed for Mock Recall and Traceability Program.
Manages the foreign material program.
Reviews foreign material inspection logs, preventive control monitoring records, and ensures appropriate disposition for contaminated/ suspect product.
Ensures the effectiveness of the Non-Conforming Product/Hold Program and has final disposition authority with consultation from Corporate FSQA, if needed.
Manages the internal audit program.
Facilitates and partners in internal audits and self-inspections to mitigate potential food or feed safety risks.
Is the primary auditee during certification and customer audits, and regulatory inspections.
Communicates audit/inspection results to management and ensures follow-up of audit non-conformances.
Oversees the overall validation, effectiveness review, and verification of program documents, forms, and records.
Ensures verifications are accurate and complete.
Manages the site calibration program and ensures timely completion of calibrations for equipment related to Food Safety.
Obtains annual city water report.
Ensures site samples are taken for analysis and reviews test results with Environmental to ensure compliance.