Superintendent Quality Assurance Job Dubuque area,Iowa USA,Quality Assurance

Purpose of the Position

Assists in directing the Quality Assurance and Food Safety Programs at assigned locations. Helps oversee Quality Assurance procedures, personnel, regulatory compliance, inventory control of hold products, problem detection and correction, and all other quality and food safety related programs. Supports other departments by ensuring awareness of quality and regulatory requirements.

Essential Position Responsibilities

- This is a Salary Exempt position.

Assists in directing quality, food safety, and regulatory programs. Assists in the development and management of HACCP, GMP, SSOP, Quality, and related programs to ensure customer expectations and regulatory requirements are met. Ensures incoming ingredients and finished products meet quality requirements and customer specifications. Ensures quality performance is performed in a manner which meets or exceeds all company guidelines for a total quality program.

Demonstrates knowledge of the quality, food safety, and regulatory requirements related to these programs.

Ensures open communication with necessary personnel. Maintains open communication with facility personnel onquality issues and topics. Leads and/or participates in meetings with quality and/or production personnel to ensurecommunication with all levels of facility personnel on quality and food safety related topics. Prepares and maintains written programs and documentation to ensure effective communication of plant programs, procedures, and quality inspection requirements.

Builds strong quality assurance and food safety teams. Guides and develops cooperative relationships between plant and quality personnel. Effectively manages staffing to meet business and customer needs. Ensures accurate and effective training of necessary personnel. Effectively communicates specifications, quality, and food safety relatedrequirements to necessary personnel.

Manage the review of raw material, in-process, and finished product analyses to ensure we are consistently in specification. Serve as the liaison with R&D and Plant Management for product and production optimization projects.

Manages the raw material testing program to ensure proper sampling and analytical methods are being followed asper the Corporate Quality Assurance Program.

Oversees internal audits. Leads internal audits via direction to facility audit personnel. Manages the internal Master Audit Plan including the weekly sanitation audits and the annual SOP audits. Develop timely corrective action and preventive action plans to resolve on-going issues.

Manages the finished goods Lot Traceability/Mock Recall program . Serves as a resource to the production operation to deal with day to day occurrences. Elevates unresolved issues to the attention of the Quality Assurance Manager for further direction or support.

Manages employees. Directs and supervises employees’ work activities and monitors work performance.

Collaborates with Human Resources to screen, interview and hire candidates. Administers disciplinary actions and recommends performance improvement actions in collaboration with the HR Manager. Monitors work performance and recommends compensation decisions based on guidelines. Follows Simmons values to develop and maintain a favorable working relationship with all employees. Promotes a cooperative and harmonious environment in order to facilitate positive employee morale, productivity, and continued improvement.

Participates as a member of the Team . Participates in the ongoing development, communication and implementation of team concepts, programs and policies; coordinates work to ensure best practices with all team members. Attends appropriate team meetings. As a member of the Team, fosters strong cohesiveness regarding all major issues; e.g., direction, annual plan, budget, policy changes, etc. Accepts responsibility to quickly identify any areas that lack cohesiveness, bringing them to the attention of the team leader and working with the team in aupportive manner to resolve issues and actively look for ways, and reinforce actions needed, to achieve synergy possible within the larger organization.

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