Sr. Manager, Food Safety & Quality Control

This range is provided by INW:
Innovations in Nutrition and Wellness. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

$91,319.00/yr - $/yr

Job Responsibilities

Essential job duties and responsibilities include the following; however, other duties may be assigned based on the needs of the business.

• Lead and oversee the site quality and food safety programs, ensuring alignment with regulatory, customer, site and corporate standards (SQF, FDA 21 CFR 117, USDA, state, and local).
• Develop and execute quality strategies tailored to bar manufacturing, including in-process control plans for bar weight, dimension, moisture, metal detection, seal integrity, and allergen segregation.
• Manage and continuously improve the site's HACCP, GMP, sanitation, and environmental monitoring programs, with a focus on high-risk areas in open bar production.
• Provide oversight of non-conformance management, root cause analysis, and CAPA execution, especially for common food bar and ingredient issues,
• Partner with Operations to drive quality culture and ensure new product introductions, reformulations, and scale-ups are executed with quality built in.
• Manage internal and external audits, including regulatory inspections, customer audits, and third-party certification bodies.
• Supervises Quality staff. Responsibilities may encompass training, planning, assigning and directing work, performance appraisals, time and attendance bi-weekly review, disciplinaries and problem solving among other supervisory duties.
• Develop product, ingredient and component specifications to document current standards and propose quality and reliability expectancy of finished product.
• Direct workers engaged in inspection and testing activities to ensure continuous control over materials, facilities, and products.
• Plan, promote, and organize training activities related to product quality and reliability.
• Investigate customer complaints regarding quality and food safety and prepare reports.
• Maintain the quality manual.
• Institute and oversee preventive controls.
• Prepare sample submission packages for testing.
• Oversee the sampling, retention and testing program.
• Troubleshoot on production floor to eliminate food safety hazards.
• Eliminate/minimize deviations from specifications and prepare deviation or OOS reports.
• Responsible for material release.
• Issues written and oral instructions in the form of BPP or SOPs.
• Conduct accident investigations and draft incident reports.
• Oversee plant sanitation.
• Monitor the SQF Plan and be the facility SQF Practitioner.
• Monitor GFCO requirements and act as the point person for contact with GFCO and other certifying bodies.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education/Experience:

• BA in Science. Food Science, Biology and similar backgrounds preferred.
• Minimum 7 years of related experience in Quality Systems required.
• Experience working is a quality position within a food and nutrition bar manufacturing site.
• Experience with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) & CFR 117 required.
• Experience with GFSI audits strongly preferred.
• Experience or familiarity with organic, kosher, gluten-free regulations preferred.

Skill Requirements & Certifications:

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to follow Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) plant safety and OSHA requirements.
• Ability to read, speak and write in English.
• Proven success with working in a team environment.

Exposure to food allergens, wheat, nuts, coconut, soy products

Salary Range

Starting salary is dependent on factors such as work experience, education,…