Quality Assurance Manager

Sunrise Farms

Sunrise Farms is a group of companies with primary focus in the poultry industry.

From our hatcheries to our “ready to eat” state of the art cooking facilities we service customers in the retail, food service and industrial sectors. We are proud of our support of the Canadian farm as well as our investment in the latest equipment and technologies at our facilities across Canada. Our test kitchens have the most current cooking equipment replicating that used in commercial establishments, to facilitate precision testing.

This way you know the product you receive will perform to your expectations. We are proud of our long-standing partnerships with family-owned Canadian chicken farmers to produce high quality products.

Responsible for strict adherence to FSQA, HACCP and Animal Welfare Program, customer requirements, and all regulatory framework for the entire facility. Establishing, implementing and directing the quality assurance and food safety efforts to ensure those requirements for processing components and other materials into finished goods and products conform to food safety, quality, and legal standards. Together with direct reports establish and maintain quality assurance and animal welfare standards, procedures, and controls.

Work directly with processing to schedule and control inspection activities and to enforce requirements as specified by raw materials, ingredients, products and package specifications, and regulatory agencies. Initiate corrective action for procedural product or process deficiencies.

• Manage, plan, coordinate, and direct quality assurance, food safety and animal welfare programs designed to ensure continuous production/service consistent with established regulatory and internal standards. Maintain various policies and standard operating procedures including HACCP, Animal welfare, GMP, CFIA regulations, food safety, pest control, internal audit procedures, etc.
• Manage the development and analysis of statistical data and specifications to determine present standards and to establish proposed quality and reliability expectancy. Recommend corrective action necessary to ensure conformity with Food safety, Animal welfare, quality specifications and standards.
• Formulate and maintain quality control objectives and coordinate objectives with the production procedures in cooperation with other managers to maximize quality, reliability, and minimize costs.
• Lead Internal and External Audit programs, including knowledge and experience with current SFCR, Animal welfare, and BRC audit guidelines and requirements, to ensure plant’s compliance to CFIA and Corporate Food Safety, Quality and Animal welfare programs (or equivalent);
• Manage proactively, both directly and through intermediate personnel, sanitation related activities to ensure that food safety is not compromised.
• Manage, through intermediate personnel, workers engaged in activities to ensure continuous control over materials, facilities, services and products.
• Develop and implement methods and procedures for monitoring and verification of all work activities from live poultry receiving, slaughter to finished products, providing reports and trends to senior management regularly.
• Plan, promote, and organize training activities related to animal welfare, quality and reliability, including QA staff development. Develop hands on quality assurance personnel and complete all related quality training on site.
• Analyze and resolve work problems or assist employees in solving problems.
• Manage installation, inspection, and testing procedures for finished products. In conjunction with the Plant Manager, investigate any product that fails to meet specifications, and develop the required improvement processes.
• Ensure nutritional, organoleptic and microbiological standards are met and monitored.
• Ensure the company’s food defense, animal welfare, and foreign animal disease policies and practices are maintained.
• Contribute to the marketing and development of new products through involvement with quality standards and production trials for existing products and/or new products.
• Investigate customer…