Manager Quality Assurance

Requisition : 193122
Career Group: Distribution Centre Management
Job Category: Central Production
Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%
Job Type: Full-Time

Country: Canada (CA)
Province: British Columbia
City: Delta

Embark on a rewarding career with Sobeys Inc., celebrated among Canada’s Top 100 employers, where your talents contribute to our commitment to excellence and community impact.

Our family of 128,000 employees and franchise affiliates share a collective passion for delivering exceptional shopping experiences and amazing food to all our customers. Our mission is to nurture the things that make life better – great experiences, families, communities, and our employees. We are a family nurturing families.

A proudly Canadian company, we started in a small town in Nova Scotia but we are now in communities of all sizes across this great country. With over 1,600 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, Fresh Co, Thrifty Foods, Lawtons Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family.

Ready to Make an impact?

British Columbia Central Kitchens, located in Delta, BC, is opening in early Spring 2026, we are looking for an onsite Quality Assurance Manager. This is an exciting opportunity that will be responsible for overseeing, assuring compliance to, and continuously improving Food Safety and Quality Management Systems for this federally licensed site. This will be achieved through direct management of the Food Safety/Quality team at the site, developing and improving process, revising, and developing Preventive Control Plans (PCP) and HACCP plans, conducting risk assessments, and verifying compliance to established metrics or customer requirements.

This position will also facilitate customer complaint investigations, food safety investigations and the corrective/preventive action processes. Additionally, this position will lead the plant team to maintain certification to one of the Global Food Safety Initiative recognized scheme

Here’s where you’ll be focusing:

· Lead the site food safety programs, regulatory compliance and GFSI certification

· Advance the organization’s food safety and quality policy and procedures at the site to establish a compliant food safety culture

· Proactively maintain and continue to improve plant quality and food safety systems such as PCPs, Health Canada Listeria Policy, GMPs and all other applicable programs

· Maintain FSEP requirements for prerequisite programs and HACCP plans (verification, validation, logging of changes, and review of programs annually or as changes occur

· Drive the implementation of a GFSI scheme at the facility and maintain certification

· Understand CFIA and Health Canada’s food safety investigation, risk assessment and recall processes and execute if required

· Review and participate in the development of SOPs and SSOPs for all aspects of the business at the site

· Train plant personnel in TQM philosophies, SPC, HACCP, GMP, and monitor compliance.

· Develop, in conjunction with Corporate Food Safety, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and reporting systems

· Directly manage and perform proficiency testing/evaluation of a multi-level Quality Assurance team of employees

· Identify and report to senior site and Corporate Food Safety management any and all concerns (perceived or otherwise) regarding food safety and quality

· Develop, conduct and assist in training of manufacturing staff as required

· Ensure quality, product safety, plant sanitation, pest control, and regulatory standards are met

· All other duties as required

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What you have to offer:

· Bachelor level Degree in Food Science, Microbiology, Quality Assurance, or related degree

· Minimum of 5 – 7 years experience in Quality Assurance/Food Safety discipline within the food manufacturing industry with the following:

· Experience in a Ready-to-Eat (RTE) product processing/manufacturing facility

· Experience troubleshooting potential food safety and quality problems at the plant level

· Experience developing and managing food safety management systems

· 3 years experience in a Quality Assurance or Food Safety Leadership role(s)

· 3 years experience…