Quality Manager

BLUE CHIP GROUP LLC•Salt Lake City, UT

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Quality Manager helps establish and enforce processes that fall within the safe food handling guidelines. Trains and follows up with the production teams to ensure good manufacturing practices (GMPs) are followed. Audits company practices to measure the success of the quality programs, and issues corrective actions to drive compliance and improvement.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree of food science or a related field (preferred) or equivalent experience (6+ years of experience in a food manufacturing environment)
2+ years of FSQA Management experience in a food manufacturing environment
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Midlevel understanding of microbiology and food science
Strong computer skills and understanding of process excellence methodologies
Knowledge and experience with USDA, FDA, OSHA, HACCP regulations
Experience with Gluten Free regulations

Responsibilities

Assist in developing key processes which drive food safety, process consistency and product quality
Monitor the food safety and product quality processes.
Train, educate, coach and mentor production leads and operators in key food safety and quality processes and requirements.
Provide expertise, guidance and leadership regarding Regulatory compliance at the plant level
Act as a primary liaison to corporate Quality Assurance and outside Regulatory agencies, i.e. USDA, FDA, OSHA, and Utah Department of Agriculture.
Acts as primary liaison for customer quality concerns/complaint issues
Manage the contracted food safety prerequisites. E.g., pest control, water management, lubricant, and chemical safety.
Knowledge and experience in data collection, record keeping, documentation, and implementation required for all quality management systems. E.g., HACCP, GMPs, SSOPs, SOPs, OSHA, allergens, sanitation, microbiological testing, ingredients, vendor certification/approval, inbound and outbound inspections, product traceability, raw and finished product inspection, GMO, MSDS, and food safety training
Audits and submits corrective actions to operations for compliance to regulations
Ensures highly disciplined compliance with all product and process quality standards including, product quality evaluation, formulations, procedures, programs and systems including hold and release, recall and foreign material contamination guidelines and resolutions.
Other Food Safety & Quality tasks as applicable.