Manager, Quality AGC

About Us

With over a century of expertise, Adam’s Group is a fifth-generation family-owned company providing global solutions to the food industry. As a leading supplier of organic and non-GMO bulk and specialty oils, lecithin, and grains, we serve B2B customers in the natural and organic space, including food manufacturers, infant nutrition brands, and industrial processors. We are committed to delivering high-quality, sustainably sourced ingredients that support innovation and clean-label formulations.

Position Summary:

The AGC Quality Manager assists in documenting and executing the Grain Company’s Quality Management Systems for two cleaning plant locations in collaboration with the Corporate Quality and Food Safety Director, the AGC Quality & Food Safety Coordinator and each site’s Plant Management for their effective execution in production operations. The Quality Manager communicates directly with customers to address documentation needs and product inquiries and concerns.

Food Safety Policy:

Adams Group is committed to producing and distributing high quality products through adherence to industry and regulatory standards. As an Adams Group employee, you will be trained on our food safety policies and will be held accountable to adhering to them. You will be encouraged and required to notify supervision about actual or potential food safety issues. Everyone at Adams is involved in delivering safe food - within your scope of work you will be empowered to act to resolve food safety issues.

Key Responsibility:

• Manages direct reports across two sites – responsible for hiring, timecard approval, documented performance reviews, discipline and documentation according to Company Policy and House rules.

• Develop new Quality program documentation and regularly audit existing Quality program documentation for continuous improvement; perform validation activities in support of new and existing programs, as needed.

• Lead customer audits and participate in regulatory audits in collaboration with QFS Director and/or Coordinator.

• Assists in developing and delivering educational materials for team member training in relation to Quality

programs and corrective actions.

• Participate in annual SQF Program validations and annual internal Q&FS management systems audit.

• Oversee AGC Quality programs, specifically:

o Annual Monitoring of Product Quality (Heavy Metals, Pesticides, Nutritional, Mycotoxins, Micros, etc.);

o Annual testing proficiency (LPP) amongst staff, In-house & via 3rd party Neogen®;

o Allergen Program: product matrix documentation, execution by Quality techs for verification and validation testing;

o GMP compliance;

o Internal Inspections and associated corrective actions;

o Risk Assessments, as needed;

o Production record review and CCP/PC verifications;

o Non-GMO program—employee training, composite