Manager, Quality

Description

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At Lactalis in the USA, we’re committed to providing meaningful opportunities for our people to learn, grow, and thrive—whether you’re just starting your journey with us or looking to take the next step in your career. From day one, we offer the tools and support to help you succeed.

As the world leader in dairy, Lactalis is a family-owned company with over 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals across the globe. Each day, we’re proud to produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together.

In the US, we proudly offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani® Italian cheeses and ricotta, Président® specialty cheeses and butters, Kraft® natural and grated cheeses, Breakstone’s® cottage cheese, Cracker Barrel®, Black Diamond® cheddar, and Parmalat® milk. Our yogurt portfolio includes siggi’s®, Stonyfield Organic®, Brown Cow™, Oui®, Yoplait®, Go-Gurt®, :ratio®, Green Mountain Creamery®, and Mountain High®, along with a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun®, Gopi®, and Arz®.

At Lactalis, we live by our core values—Ambition, Engagement, and Simplicity. We foster a workplace where innovation thrives, diverse perspectives are celebrated, and everyone’s unique background and ideas are valued.

Even if you don’t meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We want to hear about your PASSION, your STORY, and how your EXPERTISE can help us shape the future of dairy.

Lactalis Heritage Dairy, part of the Lactalis family of companies, is currently hiring a Quality Manager based in Walton, NY. The purpose of this position is to guarantee the effectiveness of the quality management program, with respect to the ISO requirements (ie- dairy industry quality assurance, food hygiene, food safety, microbiology, communication systems), so as to give customers satisfaction and continuous improvement through the embodiment of ideal leadership behaviors including: being a proactive, dynamic and collaborative team player, being flexible and receptive to new ideas, hard-working and efficient, analytical and attentive to detail, with a realistic and mature approach.

Ideal candidates will be capable of working independently in adherence to regulations, and demonstrating an inquiring mind and well-developed observational skills, objectivity and an ability to see the bigger picture.

Key responsibilities for this position include:

• Draw up control schedules to ensure the compliance of products according to the requirements in force (regulations, customer or divisional specifications, etc.)
• Manage follow-up of product non-compliance
• Responsible for Product Recall or withdraw
• Investigate, monitor and validate corrective and preventive action plans pertaining to complaints, audits, holds, non-conforming products, etc.
• Organize and lead organoleptic monitoring of finished products
• Contribute to drawing up specifications
• Participate in working groups for constant improvement of procedure control, innovation and optimization of product quality
• Analyzes and evaluates information concerning daily operations and how these results positively or negatively affect plant performance
• Analyzes and evaluates information concerning daily operations and how these results positively or negatively affect plant performance.
• Conducts the Quality Control Program for the Operation using policies/procedures, GMP’s and GSP’s.
• Assures quality finished products.
• Assures quality raw materials and packaging.
• Directs plant Quality Control Laboratory.
• Develops effective insect and rodent prevention programs and follow up with plant sanitation.
• Set up records and procedures to report…