Position Summary:

Provide Food Safety, Quality Control, and Sanitation services and supervision to ensure that all products meet established standards. This position is responsible for leading the implementation and execution of the food safety, quality, and sanitation programs and maintaining a food-safe environment in a safe and quality manner. Additional responsibilities to include but are not limited to, providing cross functional support, supporting production driven changeovers, continuous improvement of departmental goals, scheduling, record keeping, and serving as the back up to the Quality Manager.

Essential Duties and Requirements include the following.

• Adhere to personnel safety policies and procedures as well as promote personnel safety to direct and indirect reports.
• Promote food safety and quality to peers, direct reports, and plant employees.
• Responsible for reporting food safety, quality and employee safety issues
• Works closely with Quality, Sanitation, Production, Warehouse, and Maintenance Departments. Provides leadership, training, and scheduling for quality and sanitation personnel.
• Responsible for the supervision and evaluation of the Quality and Sanitation Department staff including, but not limited to performance reviews, employee development, payroll, and ensuring standards of behavior and disciplinary procedures are applied consistently.
• Maintains QC and sanitation equipment, facilities, and supplies needed for product inspection and cleaning.
• Facilitates resolution of Quality issues between production and QC. Performs inspections, issues reports and COA’s, and takes necessary samples.
• Participates in internal and external audits and inspections to identify and coordinate corrective action for any issues regarding food safety and safety.
• Maintain hold and release, environmental testing, Master Sanitation schedule, SDS’s, SSOP’s, and other regulatory and company specific programs.
• Review Food Safety/HACCP, quality, and sanitation documentation.
• Inspect plant for pest control concerns, contamination, and compliance to cleaning schedules, critique housekeeping and employee practices relative to sanitation and quality requirements. Work with outside vendors to maintain supplies and equipment.
• Compliance with all requirements of programs/policies for Food Safety, Good Manufacturing Practices, HACCP, Quality, SQF, OSHA, Environmental, and as required by Plant, Company, Local, State and Federal mandates, or programs is required.
• Ensures all concerns are communicated and elevated to proper management personnel and contributes to problem solving.
• Other duties as assigned by Management.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job has supervisory responsibilities for Quality Assurance and Sanitation Technicians

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Skills

This position requires exceptional planning, organizing, analytical, problem solving, and communication skills.

A strong background in quality assurance methods such as, but not limited to, SPC, pest control, allergen management, HACCP, FDA regulations, GLP’s, GMP’s and SOP’s, Bulk Systems, Codex, CFIA is desired. Food industry experience is mandatory.

This position further requires computer literacy, and orientation to detail, quick decision making ability and a high service orientation.

Education Level: Undergraduate degree in Bachelor’s Degree of Science or an Associate’s Degree preferred with equivalent experience.

Related Experience: Minimum 2 years of directly related food industry experience, including supervisory experience.

Expertise Level: Knowledge of quality assurance / food safety concepts, practices and procedures in order to handle complex tasks and give experienced guidance to others.

Computer Skills

This position requires at least intermediate level knowledge of MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint.

Physical Ability

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or listen. The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment requires mandatory use of ear plugs.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.