Senior Director Food Safety & Quality Assurance

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Dawn Foods is a global leader in bakery manufacturing and ingredients distribution. As the partner of choice for inspiring bakery success, we help customers grow their business through meaningful partnerships, research-driven insights and innovations, and products and expertise they can depend on. As a family-owned company, our commitments to our people, products, customers, and corporate values, are all part of our recipe for success.

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Why work for Dawn Foods?

 

PEOPLE. PRODUCTS. CUSTOMERS. 

 

Why should you apply? We invest in you!

• Industry-leading health insurance on Day 1!
• Competitive Pay
• 401(K) + company match
• 10 Paid Company Holidays
• Paid Time Off
• Professional training
• Family-owned business over 100 years in service
• An opportunity for career advancement, working as part of an empowering workforce.

 

Job Purpose and Overview

The Senior Director FSQA is responsible for overseeing and coordinating the development, implementation, and optimization of compliance, food safety standards, quality management and audit process activities at Dawn Foods. This position is responsible for overseeing and enhancing our organization’s food safety programs, ensuring compliance with all federal and local regulatory standards, maintaining high-quality standards, and overseeing internal and external audits. As a Senior Leader on the team, this role requires an elevated level of expertise, prior leadership experience, technical proficiency in food safety and compliance, quality management and audit processes. This position is responsible for the coaching, supervision, and development of several direct reports.

 

The Senior Director, Food Safety & Quality Assurance, will provide oversight to all Corporate Quality and Plant Quality managers. Additionally, this role will provide leadership to the following functions: plant quality, supplier quality, distribution quality, customer complaints, FSQA based audits, Dawn Manufacturing, Dawn Distribution (buy/sell), and quality continuous improvement.

 

This is a remote position with 25-50% travel.

 

What will you do as a Senior Director, Food Safety & Quality Assurance at Dawn Foods? 

 

Strategic Leadership

• Develop and implement the company’s overall food safety, quality, and audit strategies in alignment with short-term and long-term business priorities.
• Provide strategic direction and guidance to cross-functional teams to ensure compliance with food safety regulations and industry best practices.
• Drives accountability and follow-through with all customer-related concerns, emphasizing on providing an efficient, quick resolution and short response time to customers.
• Proven leadership, communication, and diplomacy skills necessary to effect evolutionary change in the Dawn quality processes. Developed people leader who motivates teams and individuals.

 

Food Safety and Quality Management

• Develop, implement, and maintain robust food safety and quality management systems to ensure compliance with applicable regulation, standards, and certifications (FDA, HAACP, GFSI, ISO, etc.).
• Develops new methods and tools to enhance Dawn’s food safety and quality management processes. Required ability to be highly effective at change management to drive improvement across the North American Quality Team.
• Creates and maintains methods for establishing project priorities, defining metrics, and tracking food safety and quality project progress.
• Ability to create a Culture of Quality throughout the organization.
• Responsible for setting and ensuring we hit our Quality goals (First Pass Quality), Customer Complaint rate, etc. and building a culture of continuous improvement.

 

Food Safety Regulatory Compliance

• Stay updated on relevant food safety regulations, industry trends, and emerging technologies, and ensure the organization’s compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.
• Interact with regulatory agencies, auditors, and certification bodies to a