FSQA Manager - Conway, AR

The Quality Manager is responsible for managing the Food Safety and Quality Assurance department. The role has a site-wide impact as the owner of Food Safety Management Systems (FSMS). The ideal person has excellent communication and coaching skills and the ability to work cross-functionally with all departments.

The role will mainly be on 1st shift but will require leadership across all 3 shifts.

• Review all food safety procedures and instructions, to ensure they remain current.
• Review requests to change FSMS-related procedures and work instructions and direct the Food Safety Team through such reviews.
• Manage the Food Safety Team and ensure that processes needed for the FSMS are established, implemented, and maintained.
• Ensure the promotion of awareness of customer requirements pertaining to food safety throughout the organization.
• Develop the Company's prerequisite programs and ensure that PRPs are implemented, monitored, and communicated to the appropriate parties, and periodically review PRPs.
• Conduct hazard analyses.
• Evaluate suppliers'/vendors' food safety systems; monitor and report on supplier food safety performance on an ongoing basis.
• Review revisions to manufacturing practices, to ensure potential food safety hazards have been adequately addressed.
• Oversee the internal food safety audit program -- select internal audit personnel, review results of food safety audits, ensure that corrective actions are understood, and supervise corrective actions.
• Reporting on corrections and corrective actions taken at Management Review meetings.
• Collect, analyze, and publish measurement data, to determine the root cause of process and product food safety problems and recommend action to resolve those problems.
• Initiate and supervise product defects, to ensure adequate implementation and effectiveness.
• Supervise hazard analyses, report results of analyses to top management, and periodically review food safety-related processes to ensure hazards are accounted for and controlled.
• Develop team to solve day-to-day operational issues & reach performance goals.
• Communicate cross-functionally to assist the team to solve operational issues.
• Manage all aspects of product quality and food safety for the facility. This is inclusive of product specs, a quality manual, weight control, traceability, in-process and finished product testing and food safety and allergen. Conduct FSQA self-inspections and participate in annual SQF and Customer audit programs. Ensure SQF, Organic, Non-GMO and Customer driven Audit Standard requirements are met. Develop, coordinate and manage plant quality programs as assigned.
• Ensure all facility quality training, to include GMP, food safety, Non-GMO and allergen plans, regulatory requirements, and quality measurement systems are met.
• Ensure that full compliance is maintained in all regulatory matters, and serve as the contact point for regulatory affairs at the site level.