Lead Person - Quality

Location Description

Michael Foods, Inc. located in Norwalk, Iowa is a southern suburb in the Des Moines, Iowa metropolitan area. We are known for knowing our neighbors and enjoying a great quality of life! Our location produces high quality precooked egg patties as well as various French Toast products.

The purpose of the Food Safety & Quality Lead is to support the facility’s food safety and quality system. The effective execution of our monitoring and verification requirements ensures finished products adhere to their specifications and meet our customer’s expectations. All of Michael Foods, the customers and the public will benefit from the work done by leads who ensure safe, compliant quality products.

This position has the responsibility to comply with safety work rules at all times as well as an obligation to reinforce safety as a Core Value. Ensures that all policies, procedures and activities, related to Food Safety & Quality, are followed and complied with uniformly, in an effort to reduce product and process variability.

• Support and provide direction for FSQ processing and precooked department technicians, including scheduling of work assignments, communication and resolution of food safety and quality nonconformances.
• Effectively train FSQ and production personnel on monitoring and verification procedures for Food Safety (Preventive Controls – Supply Chain, Allergen, Process, Sanitation & Recall, Pre-Operational Inspection, Operational Sanitation, Food Defense, Labeling, etc.) and Food Quality (Weights, Dimensions, Coding, Sensory, Analytical Methods for Egg Solids, Salt Content)
• Perform all routine & non-routine FSQ department food safety and quality calibration, monitoring and verification tasks.
• Perform periodic direct observations of critical food safety and quality monitoring and verification tasks and correct non-conformances.
• Participate in facility food safety/quality inspections, in-process inspections, mock recall, label and food safety plan internal audits exercises as required.
• Act as a liaison between FSQ technicians and the sanitation, receiving, production, distribution and maintenance departments.
• Prepare and communicate schedule FSQ shift reports.
• Trends and reports pre-operational, ATP & FPQ incident data to FSQ department for evaluation.
• Assist in drafting, revision, and maintenance of plant standard operating procedures.
• Communicate food safety and quality non-conformances to FSQ management and production departments.
• Assist and track the completion FPQ Incident Reports and Corrective Action Database to ensure corrective actions are implemented and verified to be effective.
• Support in the investigation and resolution of environmental findings through observations, swabbing and internal audits of critical processes.
• Support the investigations of customer concerns or other quality related deviations to determine root cause and appropriate corrective actions.
• Assist in the management of quality hold activities, including non-conforming product inventories.
• Accountable for a safe and healthy workplace for everyone. Adhere to all safety policies and procedures and incorporate safety and health in all jobs and tasks.
• Adhere to Quality work practices, follow all GMP’s, maintain sanitary conditions and ensure that product quality is maintained. Report to management any conditions or practices that may adversely affect food safety and quality.
• Ensure regulatory compliance at all times.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

REQUIRED

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:

High school diploma or general education degree (GED) or equivalent.

LANGUAGE

SKILLS:

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups, customers/vendors or employees of the organization.

MATHEMATICAL

SKILLS:

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized…