Quality & Food Safety Manager

About the position

The Quality & Food Safety Manager is responsible for managing the Quality & Sanitation teams. The role includes management of roughly 90 employees across the first, second, and third shifts. The role has a site-wide impact as the owner of Food Safety Systems. It is an excellent opportunity to gain experience managing a team on food safety and sanitation success. The ideal person has excellent communication and coaching skills and the ability to work cross-functionally with all departments. The role will mainly be on 1st shift, but will require leadership across all 3 shifts.

Responsibilities

• Periodically review all food safety procedures and instructions, to ensure they remain current
• Review requests to change FSMS-related procedures and work instructions and direct the Food Safety Team through such reviews
• Manage the Food Safety Team and ensure that processes needed for the FSMS are established, implemented, and maintained
• Ensure the promotion of awareness of customer requirements pertaining to food safety throughout the organization
• Develop the Company's prerequisite programs and ensure that PRPs are implemented, monitored, and communicated to the appropriate parties, and periodically review PRPs
• Conduct hazard analyses
• Evaluate suppliers'/vendors' food safety systems; monitor and report on supplier food safety performance on an ongoing basis
• Review revisions to manufacturing practices, to ensure potential food safety hazards have been adequately addressed
• Oversee the internal food safety audit program - select internal audit personnel, review results of food safety audits, ensure that corrective actions are understood, and supervise corrective actions
• Reporting on corrections and corrective actions taken at Management Review meetings
• Collect, analyze, and publish measurement data, to determine the root cause of process and product food safety problems and recommend action to resolve those problems
• Initiate and supervise product defects, to ensure adequate implementation and effectiveness
• Supervise hazard analyses, report results of analyses to top management, and periodically review food safety-related processes to ensure hazards are accounted for and controlled
• Develop team to solve day-to-day operational issues & reach performance goals
• Communicate cross-functionally to assist the team to solve operational issues
• Manage all aspects of product quality and food safety for the facility.
• This is inclusive of product specs, a quality manual, weight control, traceability, in-process and finished product testing and food safety and allergen.
• Conduct QAS self-inspections and participate in annual QAS audit program.
• Conduct self-inspection audits ensuring AIB and FSSC 22000 Standards requirements are met.
• Develop, coordinate and manage plant quality and sanitation programs as assigned
• Provide facility quality training, to include GMP, food safety, Non-GMO and allergen plans, regulatory requirements, and quality measurement systems.
• Be capable of delivering training in the area of continuous improvement processes
• Oversee the Sanitation functions within the department
• Conduct one to ones with technicians to ensure that expectations are being met
• Ensure that full compliance is maintained in all regulatory matters, and serve as the contact point for regulatory affairs at the site level

Requirements

• Bachelor Degree preferably in Business, Operations Management, or related major
• Understanding of quality, OSHA and food safety requirements in a manufacturing setting
• Knowledge of the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) is preferred
• Demonstrated leadership ability
• Highly motivated self-starter
• Project management skills
• Ability to work in an unstructured environment with the ability to make tradeoff decisions quickly
• Ability to give/receive constructive feedback
• Ability to lead a team-based approach to decision making.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a results-oriented, challenging environment
• Effective coaching, facilitation, presentation, and team-building skills
• Proficient in sanitation procedures and GMP/AIB requirements in a manufacturing setting
• Must have experience with one of the GFSI schematics (FSSC 22000, BRC, GFS, GRMS, etc.)
• General knowledgeable of micro-biology relating to environmental monitoring

Benefits

• The expected compensation range for this position is between $106,400 - $178,100.
• Bonus based on performance and eligibility target payout is 12% of annual salary paid out annually.
• Paid time off subject to eligibility, including paid parental leave, vacation, sick, and bereavement.
• Comprehensive benefits package to support our employees and their families, subject to elections and eligibility: Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Health, and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Insurance (Accident, Group Legal, Life), Defined Contribution Retirement Plan.