Regional Quality Assurance Manager - Food Manufacturing

OPEN JOB:
Regional Quality Assurance Manager - Food Manufacturing

LOCATION:
Albert Lea, Minnesota

Relocation Assistance Available

SALARY: $130,000 to $145,000

INDUSTRY:
Food & Beverages

JOB CATEGORY:
Manufacturing - Quality

• Bachelors Degree
• 10 years+ Quality Assurance experience
• Solid QA experience in the Food and Beverage manufacturing industry.
• experience managing teams
• Experience managing multiple sites.
• Solid FDA, HACCP, SQF, and industry best practices experience

• The Regional Quality Assurance Manager is a key member of the corporate quality leadership team, responsible for ensuring that products manufactured across multiple sites are safe, compliant with company, customer, and regulatory standards, and meet quality expectations.
• This role drives a culture of excellence through leadership, coaching, and cross-functional collaboration.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.