Sr. Quality Assurance Manager – Decatur, IL

East Plant Sr Quality Assurance Manager – Decatur, IL

This is an Exempt position.

The Senior Quality Manager is a leadership role within the East Plant team. This position provides proactive leadership in the development, implementation, execution, and performance of Quality systems and the Quality team to ensure products meet and are in compliance with the quality and food safety standards.

• Provides support and guidance for day-to-day decision-making regarding quality/food safety impacts on products.
• Supports Quality and Food Safety training activities.
• Establishes goals and monitors metrics that support Quality and Food Safety.
• Manages, plans, implements, and continuously improves quality programs and procedures.
• Leads the Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) initiative and drives improvement within the plants, reducing quality and food safety-related costs.
• Develops, implements, and monitors quality verification programs within the plants.
• Facilitates all Quality Management Review Meetings within the plants.
• Holds the role of SQF Practitioner.
• Works with operations to ensure products meet quality and food safety standards and provides support and guidance as needed.
• Provides product disposition for ready-to-eat products.
• Reports key performance indicators to Quality COE and East Plant leadership teams.
• Leads customer audits and other forms of customer communication requested from the plant.
• Leads compliance and regulatory audits.
• Manages the team of Quality Specialists responsible for the quality and food safety programs to ensure compliance with ADM, regulatory, and customer requirements.
• Provides quality training to new hires, contractors, conduct refresher training as needed, and maintain training records.
• Maintains the food safety plans, ensures control points are being managed as per program requirements, and as the lead PCQI coordinator for the facility, ensures risk assessments are accurate and up to date.
• Leads product recalls from the plant level with guidance from divisional resources when necessary.
• Participates/leads cross-functional teams to resolve customer issues.
• Routinely conducts GMP, Food Safety Plan / HACCP, and GFSI (SQF) compliance inspections.
• Leads root cause analysis and corrective action/preventative action plans in the event of a quality or food safety incident.

• People management experience.
• Preferred 4-year degree plus 6 years of Food Safety experience or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Prior laboratory experience/knowledge of laboratory procedures and PCQI training.
• Working knowledge of Document Management, spreadsheets, Excel, and databases.
• Knowledge of applicable food regulations and requirements.
• Ability to make decisions based on information and data available.
• Ability to work as a team member and provide training.

• Employees in this position may be exposed to various potential chemical and food allergens due to the nature of our business and the requirements of the job.
• If there is any reason such exposure would interfere with your ability to perform this role or work at the location, please notify the hiring manager.

Relocation Assistance is available with this position.

Excited about this role but don’t think you meet every requirement listed? We encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this role or another one of our openings.

ADM requires the successful completion of a background check.

$70,400.00 - $

The total compensation package for this position will also include annual bonus.

• Physical wellness – medical/Rx, dental, vision and on-site wellness center access or gym reimbursement (as applicable).
• Financial wellness – flexible spending accounts, health savings account, 401(k) with matching contributions and cash balance plan, discounted employee stock purchasing program, life insurance, disability, workers’ compensation, legal assistance, identity theft protection.
• Mental and social wellness – Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) and Colleague Giving Programs (ADM Cares).

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