About the position
This position is responsible for the daily management of all activities of the FSQA department to include food safety programs specification adherence and product quality for products within their assigned facility. In addition, the FSQA Manager will oversee all special projects as assigned, departmental budgets, turnover and safety.
Responsibilities
- Daily oversight of production practices including raw material receiving requirements
- Pre-operational and operational sanitation
- Finished product quality and Food Safety Systems
- Ensuring all Tyson FSQA policies and procedures are followed
- Monitoring verification and documentation associated with adherence to government regulations
- Developing, implementing and maintaining the HACCP, HARPC, SOP, GMP and SSOP based programs
- Ensuring finished product conforms to customer product and label specifications
- Reporting product issues and audit results to plant and corporate FSQA, plant management, corporate sales and/or operations
- Interacting with customers and their agents for product showings, plant tours and audits
- Visits to customer facilities
- Initial product runs and investigation response to quality related customer complaints
- Monitoring microbiological results
- Conducting bacterial swabs and generating shelf-life environmental graphs
- Performing research and development activities
- Responsible for implementing and maintaining food safety and quality programs
- Selecting, training and managing of FSQA Supervisors and FSQA Technicians
- Facilitating both the Food Safety and Foreign Material teams at the plant
- Completing required internal, regulatory, and customer audits
- Managing Hold Release inventories at plant level in SAP
Requirements
- Knowledge associated with food safety, animal science, natural science or technical field normally acquired through a bachelor’s degree or higher in academic study, or related job experience essential to the job
- Preferably 3-5 years of prior industry experience to fully grasp regulatory, production and manufacturing concepts
- Experience with FDA and USDA regulated products preferred
- SAP Experience a plus
- Standard computer skills required; generating spreadsheets and developing templates for use by plant management and corporate FSQA, sales and operations
- Excellent communication skills required, both written and verbal
- Good problem identification and problem-solving skills
- Must be able to work independently yet interact with many different facets within the organization and be the plant liaison to USDA
- HACCP Certified, PCQI Certified and BRC Certified preferred
Benefits
- Paid time off
- 401(k) plans
- Affordable health, life, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits
