Quality Food Safety Manager

Bimbo Bakeries USA•Oxnard, CA

8h•$106,600 - $138,600

About The Position

Quality Food Safety Department Leaders at Bimbo Bakeries USA promote quality and food safety while supporting operational excellence and the development of their teams. The role is accountable for department performance across people, safety, quality, service, and cost, and for building a culture of ownership, collaboration, integrity, and continuous improvement. The position partners with bakery and business-unit leadership to maintain quality and food safety systems, achieve operational standards, and provide advice to executive leadership on related topics.

Requirements

5–7 years of Bakery or Food Manufacturing operations management experience, including 3 years in Food Safety, Sanitation, and QA.
PCQI, HACCP, Food Defense, and GFSI (SQF, BRC, IFS, etc.) certifications.
Familiarity with federal and state regulations, Six Sigma, ISO, AIB, and GFSI standards.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office programs, including Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
A combination of education, training, and experience demonstrating competency to perform the work may be substituted for the stated education and experience.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor of Science degree in Food Science or a related major.

Responsibilities

Promote the quality and food safety mission through quality and food safety systems.
Oversee the financial health of the QFS department, including creating and maintaining annual budgets.
Lead the growth and development of Team Leaders and Associates.
Build a culture that values people and community and acts with integrity.
Partner with Business Unit leadership, the bakery leadership team, and cross-functional teams to identify and implement continuous improvement strategies.
Uphold and promote the E5 Leadership Behaviors: Embrace the Consumer, Ensure Operational Capabilities, Empower and Involve, Engage and Develop, and Expect Ownership and Accountability.
Coach Team Leaders to develop empowered, problem-solving approaches and consistently achieve world-class standards.
Support collaboration across departments to resolve issues, meet production schedules, and fulfill shipments to order.
Operate in accordance with BBU quality and food safety policies and systems.
Set department priorities and facilitate problem-solving processes to identify, implement, and communicate solutions while driving continuous improvement.
Deliver key performance indicators for people, quality, safety, service, and cost.
Develop Team Leaders’ and Associates’ core competencies through onboarding, training, coaching, and consistent performance feedback.
Achieve safety goals and deliver safety awareness programs to eliminate unsafe acts and conditions; comply with workplace standards, company policies, and government regulations.
Ensure product quality by identifying and prioritizing issues and solutions using finished-product scoring, bakery data, and consumer complaints.
Participate in defining capital investments.
Equip Team Leaders to support sales by analyzing data and ensuring production processes run efficiently.
Analyze data, prepare quality and food safety KPI trend reports, and develop action plans.
Drive programs to reduce or eliminate consumer complaints and food safety incidents.
Participate in investigations of special situations, quality failures, regulatory inspections, and ingredient or packaging vendor incidents, ensuring root-cause analysis and resolution.
Use tablets and applications such as Kleanz, SOMAX, Rever, Shift Guides, and Intelex to support effective processes.
Coordinate and participate in compliance activities, internal and external audits, and certifications.
Provide sound advice to executive leadership on related topics as a member of the Operations leadership team.