FSQA Manager II - Demopolis

Position Summary

The FSQA Manager works directly with the processing plant manager to ensure compliance with Foster Farms', USDA‑FSIS’s, and customers’ requirements. The incumbent administers, executes, and verifies the effective implementation of Food Safety and Quality Assurance (FSQA) policies and programs to ensure the safety, legality, and quality of products. This position manages and develops FSQA Supervisors and an extensive technical staff at the processing plant level to achieve department and company goals.

The manager has sole in‑plant authority to release or retain products on FSQA Hold for quality or regulatory concerns, thus sound judgment in rendering a product as wholesome and compliant to specifications is required. The manager executes processes that ensure safe, reliable, and efficient operations, supporting Foster Poultry Farms' mission, vision, and ACTION guiding principles:
Accountability, Collaboration, Truth‑Seeking, Initiative, Ownership, and Nimbleness.

• Function as the primary FSQA leader; manage and enforce implementation, verification, and validation of Food Safety programs such as HACCP/SSOP plans; ensure adherence with GFSI and Company internal audit standards; manage the regulatory relationship with local USDA‑FSIS and other regulatory agencies; retain products that do not conform to finished product specifications or legal requirements; and render product dispositions, including release into commerce.
• Manage the implementation, maintenance, evaluation, and enforcement of USDA‑FSIS regulations, company FSQA policies and programs (environmental monitoring, Good Manufacturing Practices, pest control, allergen control, and finished product specification compliance), and all product monitoring programs that have legal, customer, and company requirements.
• Oversee all team members at the processing facility (including visitors and contractors) to ensure competence in maintaining food safety and quality compliance. Design, coordinate, and execute required training in collaboration with Human Resources, Operations, Sanitation, Maintenance, and FSQA teams to promote a culture of food safety and quality.
• Lead pathogen testing root cause investigations in partnership with Operations management to address and correct processing, sanitation, and maintenance‑related deficiencies that might impact finished product safety, quality, or regulatory compliance.
• In partnership with Operations management, lead investigations to determine the root cause for finished product quality non‑compliance and customer or consumer complaints and correct and prevent manufacturing, mechanical, formulation, or process control deficiencies that may lead to finished product noncompliance.
• In partnership with the site’s Operations manager, schedule meetings and direct communications with local USDA‑FSIS inspectors to coordinate and report resolution of regulatory non‑compliance, as well as provide Foster Farms' Corporate management team with data and reports to address all noncompliance trends.
• Evaluate facility‑specific FSQA programs and procedures to established standards and modify programs to conform with regulatory requirements and company policies.
• Manage and improve the FSQA data reporting systems, communicate trends and root‑cause analyses to Corporate management for noncompliance resolution and process improvement.
• Actively lead team projects to drive continuous improvement in product safety and quality. This may include commercialization projects organized by R&D for new products.
• Actively manage all Company and FSQA Key Performance Indicators to ensure achievement of Corporate FSQA objectives.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Must be able to stand for up to 10 hours on a wet concrete floor.
• Must be able to withstand a cold (40‑48 degree) environment.
• Must be able to withstand a hot (80+ degree) environment.
• Must be able to safely lift up to 50 lbs.
• Must be able to work in a fast‑paced work environment.
• Must be able to climb stairs and/or ladders.
• Must be able to work in confined spaces.
• Must be able to push, pull, bend, kneel, and crouch/squat.

• Bachelor’s…