CareersInFood.com · 20 hours ago
Quality Assurance Manager
Gustine, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expCareersInFood.com is a well-established fruit processing manufacturer known for their superior quality, seeking a Quality Assurance Manager to join their management team. The role involves ensuring food safety and quality standards are met, managing inspection activities, and leading continuous improvement projects.
Human ResourcesManufacturing
Hiring Manager
Andi Thornbury
Responsibilities
Responsible for establishing, implementing, and directing quality control and food safety efforts to ensure that requirements for processing components and other materials into finished goods and products conform to quality standards
Develop and initiate standards and methods for inspections, testing, and evaluation
Establish programs to evaluate precision and accuracy of production equipment and testing, measurement and analyze equipment and facility
Optimization of product recipes in order to improve yield and compliance with customer specification
Must have experience in preparedness, hosting and completion of an audit for IFS, SQF, USDA, BRC, HACCP, DFA and any Federal or regulatory agency
Document quality information and prepare reports and/or manuals
Review production and quality reports on a daily basis being aware of any quality deviation
Follow-up on corrective actions when quality deviation occurs
Manage and develop continuous improvement projects
Manages all customer complaints timely by investigating and follow-up with customers and/or support departments
Set up and maintain the quality assurance systems for proper certification
Support translation of product specifications to appropriate manufacturing documentation
Provide the means for incorporating the necessary tools, equipment, and methods into the new and existing processes aimed at continuous improvement
Lead and support the achievement of plant operations food safety and quality goals
Investigate and follow-up corrective actions on product complaints and deviations as well as in process issues
Work collaboratively with members of the production, sanitation, maintenance, shipping and receiving departments to verify SOPs
Maintains Master Sanitation Schedules
Prepares and validates standard operation procedures
Maintains factory allergen and other quality control programs
Coordinates plant Sanitation/Regulatory/GMP inspection and audit programs. Acts as main point of contact for 3rd party auditors as well as other regulators
Coordinates continuous improvement activities to meet the needs of our plant as well as our customer's needs
Drives an effective corrective action program
Develops and delivers sanitation, GMP, Pest Control, allergen, Micro, QA and regulatory training programs in coordination with IFS and SQF standards
Create and maintain HACCP plan and Food Safety Plan Program
Qualification
Required
5+ years of Food Safety experience as a Quality Assurance Manager
Bachelor's degree required; preferably in Food Science
Ability to work any shift as needed, including irregular shifts or occasional weekends
Strong understanding of food safety and product quality systems
Experience or certification in FSMA, HACCP and IFS or SQF
Food Safety Regulatory experience
Ability to work with minimum supervision
Good independent decision making capabilities
Effective communication skills, written and oral
Good listening skills
Strong problem-solving skills including root cause identification and resolution
Proven ability to work with variety of people with differences in communication and learning styles
Ability to set priorities and plan ahead required
Working familiarity with MS Office Products required
Preferred
Bilingual (English and Spanish) a plus
Company
CareersInFood.com
CareersInFood is the largest & most comprehensive niche job board in North America dedicated to the Food & Beverage Manufacturing community.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageCompany data provided by crunchbase