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Balchem Corporation · 4 hours ago

Regional Quality Assurance Manager - Minnesota

Faribault, MN

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

10+ years exp

Balchem Corporation is a company that develops, manufactures, and markets specialty ingredients to enhance health and well-being. The Regional Quality Assurance Manager is responsible for ensuring product safety and compliance across multiple sites while fostering a culture of quality excellence through leadership and collaboration.

Food and BeverageNutrition

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Responsible for development and performance of the regional quality team

Builds strong cross functional relationships and demonstrates ability to effectively influence sites strategy

Develops a culture that drives quality improvements and efficiently interfaces with operational excellence processes

Develop and deliver training programs focused on food safety and quality

Communicate effectively with internal and external customers

Timely escalation and communication of food safety, quality, financial issues

Effectively cascade goals using tools such as SMART goals. Aligns with teams on standard work

Motivates and builds team strength

Accountable for the effective application of Product Safety, Product Quality and prerequisite systems regionally. Ensures these systems effectively interface with change control and commercialization processes

Strong ability to root cause issues and eliminate the cause or implement engineering or systems improvements to enact robust prevention. Applies use of basic root cause tools

Accountable for an effective internal audit program and ensures systems are working to reduce risk, and that corrective actions are completed

Drives priorities that have largest positive impact on key performance indicators and metrics including but not limited to; Inspection/Compliance performance, First Pass Quality, Complaints, Disposals, Inventory Health, Customer Responsiveness, CAPA closure and effectiveness, systems performance, environmental & sanitation performance

Ensures that response to customers, inspectors and auditors are professional, timely, and in scope

Collaborates with R&D, Production, and commercial teams in the development and preparation for production of new Products, Processes, and Equipment to support new product/customer launches. Ensures the process quantifies the probability of success and clearly communicates the risks and proposed mitigations as an outcome of first-time makes

Interface with operational excellence programs to maximize effectiveness

Provide support and aid in preparation for customer visits and external audits

Share best practices and integrate quality systems across sites

Qualification

FDA regulationsFood safetyStatistical Process ControlHACCPSQFProject managementRoot cause analysisTeam leadershipCross-functional collaborationCommunication skills

Required

Bachelor's degree in Science or related field

10+ years of experience in food, supplement, or related industry, including management

Familiarity with FDA, HACCP, SQF, and industry best practices

Ability to lift 50 lbs.; required to stand, walk, sit, and reach

Operated in an FDA regulated environment, ideally food or dietary supplement

Assess and mitigate food safety, regulatory, and cost risks

Apply sanitation principles effectively

Application of Statistical Process Control (SPC) for process evaluation and improvements

Effective project manager that knows how to prioritize and meet deadlines

Company

Balchem Corporation

Founded in 1967, Balchem is committed to making the world a healthier place by delivering trusted, innovative, and science-based solutions to the nutrition, health, and food markets.

Founded in 1967

New Hampton, New York, USA

1001-5000 employees

http://balchem.com

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