Quality Assurance Manager

Ventura Foods • Toronto, ON

34d • $98,394 - $127,592 • Onsite

About The Position

The Plant Quality Assurance Manager is responsible for leading, managing, and successfully executing all aspects of the Ventura Foods Quality and Food Safety Systems at the plant level. This will include coordinating with the Regional Plant Quality Assurance Manager and other Ventura plant QA Managers to manage the execution, communication, and training for all policy systems that relate to Ventura systems, customer systems, and all aspects of maintaining adherence to the FDA Food Safety and Modernization Act (FSMA), as well as USDA (if applicable), and other regulatory agencies. This role will also coordinate projects and training support to the Operations teams and be a liaison with company functional groups of Technical Services, Operations Excellence, R&D, HS&E, Sales, Marketing, HR, and Finance. The Plant QA Manager ensures responsiveness and timelines of projects, programs, and management of personnel to delight our customer's customers expectations.

Requirements

• Bachelor degree minimum Food Science, Microbiology, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of management responsibilities in Quality Assurance, Regulatory, Technical Services, R&D, and/or other food science related field.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and good computer skills (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, ERP or related).
• Strong leadership and team building skills.
• Ability to prioritize decisions and actions using problem solving and creative thinking approaches.
• Good knowledge in executing and maintaining a Quality Systems program.
• Must have basic knowledge of federal, state, and possibly local regulations and standards relating to Food Safety and Quality.
• This should include aspects of FSMA.
• Good project management skills, interpersonal and supervisory skills.

Responsibilities

• Provides the leadership and management for the Ventura Foods Quality and Safety systems.
• Leads all aspects of managing plant systems for SOP's, SSOP's, training, and adhering to total product specifications.
• Maintains company and facility policies, procedures, and programs supporting food safety and quality systems.
• Manages and ensures direction and training for QA staff and supervisors.
• Leads by example in conducting and analyzing company Quality Assurance plans as it relates to HACCP/GMP's; identifying gaps to improve critical control points and preventative measures.
• Manages statistical evaluation of results to help improve processing and/or product performance.
• Manages projects to reduce costs, eliminate variation, and/or standardize methods.
• Participates as part of the Plant Management team in the budgeting, people planning, and capital expenditure review process.
• Responsible for overseeing all specifications as it relates to finished goods, processing, raw materials, and packaging.
• Manages with Operations team complaint review and corrective action resolutions.
• Is primary plant technical point person for new products and/or test runs.
• May represent Plant Manager or Regional Quality Assurance Manager at company and/or industry events.
• Responsible for Food Safety, by following & assuring compliance and implementation of all company policies including Safety & HR policies, procedures, all applicable food regulations, including all current Good Manufacturing Practices.

Benefits

• Health, Prescription Drugs, Dental & Vision
• RRSP Program
• Life, Accidental Death & Dismemberment, Short & Long Term Disability, Out of Country/Emergency Medical Travel, and other optional benefits.
• Employee Appreciation Events​ and Employee Assistance Programs
• College Assistance Program
• Annual salary Base Range of $98,394.00 - $127,591.80
• Annual bonus (based on the incentive program terms and conditions)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees