Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Position Overview

The Quality Manager oversees the quality assurance department with responsibility for total product/package quality, regulatory compliance, GMPs, and executing all Quality Assurance protocols to ensure Food Safety and Quality objectives are met.

Responsibilities

· Responsible for direct management of all Quality Assurance associates.

· Responsible for ensuring Food Safety and Food Quality policies and procedures are adhered to including but not limited by SQF Code, HACCP, Quality and any customer quality requirements.

· Responsible for direct management and coordination of internal / external product sampling (i.e. sensory, microbiology testing) and environmental testing.

· Optimize resources while ensuring raw materials and finished product meet specifications and manufacturing standards and in accordance with FDA, GMP's, HACCP, and all other governmental policies, procedures, and regulations.

· Oversee daily Quality Assurance inspections to ensure all products are meeting compliance.

· Write, update, and maintain SOP's (Standard Operating Procedures) for Food Safety Management Program.

· Responsible for scheduling and leading internal auditing to support continuous improvements, shared best practices, and teamwork.

· Leads the development and implementation of Food Safety Fundamentals, the Food Safety Plans for all manufacturing and raw material holding sites.

· Oversee development, implementation, review and maintenance of SQF program.

· Communicate to relevant personnel all information essential to ensure the effective implementation and maintenance of SQF.

· Responsible for ensuring that all SQF documents are safely stored, maintained and accessible.

· Responsible for departmental non-conformances and implementation of corrective action ensuring all corrective actions are documented and outstanding actions closed in a timely manner.

· Responsible for preparing and providing food safety related training to employees.

Skills/Qualifications:

· Experience in Food Manufacturing

· Proficient in Excel, Word and Power Point

· Ability to analyze and solve problems, results oriented.

· Organized and detail oriented, adaptable to change.

· Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, verbal and written.

· Team player with strong focus on attention to detail

· Communicate clearly and respectfully in Interactions with all staff, suppliers and customers.

· Commitment to safety and a clean work environment

Education and Experience:

· BS Degree or Engineering preferred.

· Minimum 5 years of direct management experience in Quality within a manufacturing environment

· SQF Practitioner certification

· Have completed HACCP training and be experienced in implementing and maintaining HACCP based Food Safety plans.

· Quality Assurance management systems, food safety and security standards, and governmental regulatory relating to the food industry.

Working Conditions:

· Physical-Continuously standing or walking.

· Visual/Sensory-This position requires regular need to give moderate attention with one or two senses at a time.

· Work environment- Work and environment are very repetitive.

· Climate: This position requires the incumbent to have the ability to work in ambient hot and/or cold seasonal environments.

Our Professional Division works with clients as a stakeholder in their hiring strategy and process. We facilitate a solid match for our employees and clients, examining the experience and team dynamics required for a great match. Our professional team was handpicked from 25 years of recruiting and staffing experience to build our Professional team to be the best in the industry. We focus on professional placements in your Executive Placement, Accounting & Finance, Human Resources, and Administrative Support areas. We place candidates leveraging direct hire, contract-to-hire, contingent, and “Smart Hire” modalities.

Company Description

Our Professional Division works with clients as a stakeholder in their hiring strategy and process. We facilitate a solid match for our employees and clients, examining the experience and team dynamics required for a great match. Our professional team was handpicked from 25 years of recruiting and staffing experience to build our Professional team to be the best in the industry. We focus on professional placements in your Executive Placement, Accounting & Finance, Human Resources, and Administrative Support areas. We place candidates leveraging direct hire, contract-to-hire, contingent, and “Smart Hire” modalities.

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