Quality Manager

Job Description

As the Quality & Food Safety Manager, you will provide necessary leadership and technical knowledge to ensure superior laboratory services, improve product quality and plant reliability through our Quality & Food Safety Systems. The Quality & Food Safety Manager supports the plant health and safety objectives, manages departments costs within budget while looking for ways to lower analytical and quality related costs. This position is the management representative for Quality & Food Safety and training is equivalent to PCQI.  

 

Relocation assistance is available for this position.

 

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Ensure ESH Compliance

• Unsafe conditions are recognized and corrected
• Preventive programs are in place to maintain safe conditions
• Ensure compliance with MOC process.
• Ensure compliance with required product validations.
• Attend monthly safety meeting and completes regulatory ESH&T requirements
• Must successfully complete RCRA introductory/orientation training
• Must successfully complete RCRA annual refresher trailing
• Potential RCRA responsibilities
  • Inspect RCRA waste storage areas
  • Safely operate hazardous waste equipment and/or processes
  • Safely package, label, store, load and ship hazardous wastes
  • Ensure that hazardous waste manifest and documentation requirements are met
  • Respond to hazardous waste incidents and notify proper authorities
  • Maintain equipment associated with hazardous waste management
• Perform job safely, in an environmentally sound manner and in accordance with all cGMP requirements
• Actively support the plant ESHST goals and plans

 

Manage Quality Assurance & Food Safety Systems

• Ensure compliance with FSSC22000 standard 
• Ensure compliance with HACCP & HARPC
• Ensure compliance with ISO certifications for quality and food safety
• Promote continuous improvement in cGMP’s requirements
• Participate as the plant lead for any FDA/KS Dept. of Ag. audits
• Manage the NSF certification
• Manage Halal and Kosher certifications
• Manage NF compliance
• Food safety representative for the site & serve as Qualified Individual
• Member of the Food Safety Team, and is the Food Safety Team Leader
• Manage quality requirements including FSSC22000, ISO 9001, NSF, cGMPs, NF, HACCP, HARPC, FSMA and Food Defense
• Facilitate Management Review Meetings/ Quality and Food Safety Meetings
• Coordinate input and output data for Management Review
• Manage quality and food safety records
• Manage shelf life studies
• Manage external and internal food safety communications

 

Manage Quality Control

• Analytical issues are investigated promptly, and corrective actions prevent recurrence
• Ensures maintain analytical information in orderly, accessible manner
• Facilitate clear, concise communication flow between businesses and laboratory
• Coordinate sample requests, identification/disposition of nonconforming material, re-sampling frequency and C of A issues

Provide Customer Liaison Support

• Manage/participate in customer visits/audits
• Interface with MTS/Sales
• Respond to customer needs
• Communicate/advocate plant capabilities
• Ensure compliance with corporate imperatives
• Manage/participate in supplier audits & visits

 

Other Administrative Duties 

• Provide operational support to the sites on quality issues
• Develop operations personnel to participate in customer activities such as investigation of customer complaints, participation in customer visits and in understanding product applications
• Participate in community visits where necessary
• Communicate Quality & Food Safety Systems/Quality Assurance news to plant
• Support implementation of projects across the plant
• Review costs and variances monthly and variances are addressed
• Cost improvement ideas and high potential items are pursued
• Variances forecast in accordance with controller policies
• Budgets are developed with appropriate documentation

 

Manage Staff Development

• Provide effective communication
• Provide education and training
• Train laboratory personnel on SAP quality module and other electronic data systems
• Regularly communicate business goals, objectives and desired outcomes
• Establish, communicate and enforce acceptable standards of performance and behavior within the te