Director of Food Safety & Quality Assurance

Principal Duties & Responsibilities:

Ensures highly disciplined compliance with all regulatory and Company defined food safety and sanitation standards, systems, procedures, and practices to guarantee absolute wholesomeness of our product. Examples of these systems include Vendor Certification, Inbound Inspection, Microbiological Testing, Lot Tracking, daily and periodic Sanitation, HACCP, Pest Control, and Food Safety and Quality Systems Training.
Oversees, directs, and manages the Quality Assurance function to ensure highly disciplined compliance with all product and process quality parameters and standards including formulations, specifications, approved methods, procedures, practices and systems. These systems include:
Product and process quality management system (Product Quality Guarantee)
Customer complaint response, resolution, and racking
Product quality evaluation
Foreign matter/metal monitoring, resolution, and tracking
Hold” program
Obtains excellent quality results, as measured by customer complaint frequency, product evaluation scores, internal and external facility and operational audit scores, quality systems compliance, and other formal and informal feedback mechanisms, using existing methods, procedures, and systems.
Manages Technical Services function to build and maintain adequacy and accuracy of technical data, including specifications for product and process parameters and procedures, labeling details, formulations, recipes, and batch sheets. This function also facilitates and spearheads product and process troubleshooting.
Develops, implements, and sustains new methods and procedures to drive improvements in quality and safety.
Works with Plant Managers, Plant Engineers and other team members to ensure effective preventive & emergency maintenance activities.
Manages departmental activity to comply with all applicable safety laws and regulations, as well as Company safety policies, procedures and standards.
Works with division and plant team members to ensure a safe work environment, including participating in safety inspections, safety training, leading safety work group meetings, and developing and executing safety awareness initiatives.
Works to optimize efficiency within budgeted spending limitsScope Data:
Responsible for all food safety and quality assurance activity and results for two plants, operating up to three shifts per day, seven days per week, with facilities covering 160,000+ square feet with approximately up to 1,200+ full time employees


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