Compliance Manager, Quality Assurance - QA​/QC

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You lead the food safety compliance and regulatory agenda for Tate’s Bake Shop on Long Island, New York, owning the Food Safety Plan, HACCP, and related food safety agendas for the business while leading a document and compliance specialist.

As the Compliance Manager you will develop, implement, and oversee the regulatory compliance strategy for the quality function. You are responsible for providing leadership and technical assistance to site operations in the areas of food safety and regulatory compliance, including HACCP, FSSC and FSMA. Under the direction of Quality Assurance Manager, you are responsible for managing all food safety regulatory affairs.

You are also responsible for direction, implementation, and maintenance of the facility's food safety/regulatory programs. In this role, you will also support the effective management of food safety challenges pertaining to ownership areas for the business.

• Provide technicalexpertisein the areas of FSMA, HACCP, food safety, compliance systems, and regulatory awareness.
• Responsible for monitoring and maintaining the facilities’ QCMS execution, ensuring compliance to regulatory, federal, and local laws, including External Manufacturers (EM).
• Ownership and execution of HACCP management, compliance documentation and training support for plant projects and initiatives in the manufacturing environment.
• Responsible for overall CAPA management and timely completion, including the verification of CAPA effectiveness and training. Conduct RCA and Corrective action reporting in the event ofprogram, compliance deviations.
• Leads all internal and external Food safety & auditing activities and CAPA for all Tate’s facilities.
• Assistin all third-party audits;facilitate plant readiness and inspection process flow
• Performs assessments/audits of manufacturing systems to ensure records, procedures, processing, packaging and equipment are in compliance with all federal, state and other regulatory requirements for all Tate’s sites and External Manufacturers, warehouse/storage facilities.
• Responsible for maintaining training programs all personnel who’s job duties include execution of preventive controls, compliance tasks. Develop & deploy compliance-based training program for the Tate’s supply chain function (manufacturing, CS&L, retail)
• Manage Ingredients and finished product testing for internal and external manufacturing plants, per sampling plan to ensure product specifications are managed as required.
• Oversees compliance to product claims/certifications (Kosher, vegan, gluten free, etc)
• Acts as liaison between facilities’ and BU Quality, Food Safety for compliance matters and Global, BU QP (Quality Policy) changes. Conduct escalations to BU and coordinates actions as needed.
• Identify and elevate supplier compliance issues, including non-conforming ingredients, packaging materials and storage, transit conditions.
• Support Hygienic Design Review of existing equipment and infrastructure and Hygienic Design Assessments for new projects and equipment
• Assists in the development of new quality/regulatory systems, leveraging QP and HACCP to ensure compliance using the Management of Change approach
• Participate in functional quality teams and product quality improvement initiatives.
• Work closely with EHS Manager, Operations, and BU Food Safety to assure that all safety protocols are adhered to when implementing changes on the production floor
• Supervise and coach direct reports in the performance of assigned duties.
• Responsible for QCMS, FSSC programs and all other duties as assigned by the QA Manager

Food Safety and Program Compliance Leadership, including FSMA and Regulatory expertise, in addition to proven experience leading hourly teams.

• Demonstrated HACCP implementation, ownership and management
• Deep knowledge of regulatory compliance, FSMA and ISO-22000 (FSSC) or comparable program
• Strong critical thinking skills to evaluate compliance changes and identify the best approach for implementation in a…