Food Safety & QA Manager

Food Safety & Quality Assurance Manager

The FSQA Manager will lead and drive an efficient and robust food safety program. This position is responsible for product safety, quality, legality, regulatory compliance and customer requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide leadership in consumer and product safety, product quality, regulatory, and technical excellence
• Manage multiple objectives and assuring the safety and quality of all products that leave manufacturing facility while balancing the needs of production
• Manage the internal auditing program, assessing the performance of the quality system, reporting its effectiveness to the management, and proposing actions for improvement
• Communicate site quality vision/state of quality to plant management
• Enable and maintain a culture of quality awareness and compliance in the plant
• Work with the plant leadership team to ensure all quality programs and systems are implemented
• Maintain robust food safety program (e. g., HACCP, BRC or SQF)
• Ensure compliance/audit readiness review all quality systems and Quality Programs annually
• Track, report, and review the Quality Performance Indicators on a regular basis to drive continuous improvement
• Manage regulatory relationships and inspections
• Ensure adherence to good hygienic practice, pest management programs, cleaning procedures, and clear zoning principles in the factory
• Develop and train plant quality and sanitation team
• Build and document knowledge about the latest methods, trends, and developments in food safety and quality assurance for the pertinent products
• Ownership of customer/consumer complaint investigation and resolution
• Conduct effective root cause analysis and implement corrective action and prevention action
• Ensure that products are produced to specification to meet safety, quality, and regulatory requirements
• Work Safety Ensures that all tasks and functions of position are performed in a safe manner at all times and that all procedures and requirements are properly followed to accomplish assigned tasks

Qualifications

• Four-year degree in Food Science, Quality, or other relevant scientific discipline preferred; equivalent experience in lieu of a degree will also be considered
• Five year of relevant job experience
• Must have prior supervisor and manager level experience in a manufacturing environment
• Strong verbal communication skills
• Mathematical aptitude