Manager Plant Quality Job Hermiston area,Oregon USA,Quality Assurance

Overview

About Lamb Weston
You’ve probably enjoyed our fries without even knowing it! As a leading manufacturer in our industry, and public Fortune 500 company, we inspire and bring people together with foods they love and trust. Our customer base includes international food service providers, restaurants, and households in over 100 countries around the world.

Title:

Manager Plant Quality

Location:

Hermiston, OR
Job

Requisition
-259675
Time Type:
Full time

A highly innovative global corporation with a start-up mindset, we empower every individual to make a genuine difference. You’ll gain access to hands-on training to fuel your growth and success, explore opportunities for new solutions, and you’ll join a winning team of 10,000+ people all dedicated to raising the bar – together.

If you have a strong drive for results, a desire to help us bring the world together through our fries, and are ready for a fresh challenge, we want to hear from you.

Job Description Summary

Ensures food safety and quality of all products produced in the plant. Responsible for ensuring specifications are defined and communicated. Performs inspections of processes, employee training, compliance with applicable food laws and regulations and maintains plant HACCP plans to regulatory compliance. Defines best lab practices and provides guidance and adherence to quality policies. Actively participates in resolving customer complaints. Integral part of plant leadership team.

Provides support to Sales, R&D and Operations on customer issues, questions and concerns.

Job Description

Complies with all company safety policies and procedures as well as complying with all OSHA rules and regulations. (THINK SAFETY FIRST.)
Ensures all plant personnel adhere to good manufacturing practices (GMP) including proper waste disposal, personal hygiene and personal practices.
Responsible for developing and presenting to all employees a complete orientation process which provides training in the Key Concepts of Food Safety and Quality and understands that identification of any failures in these areas is their responsibility. Maintain compliance to annual training requirements.
Works closely with Operations and Maintenance to drive Food Safety and Quality ownership to the floor
Trains and develops subordinates in the performance of their duties
Manages Plant timelines and critical milestones for the Food safety and Quality Improvement Plan and other food safety/quality metrics (i.e. Complaint reduction, quality incident reduction, and quality index scores)
Interprets, analyzes, and communicates quality and food safety issues, both internal and external (consumer complaints), and initiates applicable corrective measures
Ensures compliance to all applicable regulatory agency requirements (USDA, FDA, CFIA, etc.)
Liaison with local USDA and/or FDA inspectors and any other food regulatory officers that visit the plant
Provides leadership for compliance to food safety and quality programs. Implements and maintains quality programs, i.e., HACCP to regulatory and company requirements; maintain SQF certification; specifications for raw and finished materials; recall program; environmental monitoring program; and comprehensive pest control program.
Develops corrective action when Food Safety or Quality deficiency is identified.
Acts as liaison for all technical and QC issues between operations, RQI, and sales/marketing departments
Provides Corporate with quality assurance assistance involving vendor issues, both improvements and corrective measures
Oversees product quality with regards to new product implementation and introduction into market. Ensure use of applicable MOPD and CQV tools.
FS&Q pillar owner for Lamb Weston Operating Culture. Utilize continuous improvement tools to identify opportunity and development improvement…


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