Senior Director Food Safety & Quality Assurance

Overview

Dawn Foods is a global leader in bakery manufacturing and ingredients distribution. As the partner of choice for inspiring bakery success, we help customers grow their business through meaningful partnerships, research-driven insights and innovations, and products and expertise they can depend on. As a family-owned company, our commitments to our people, products, customers, and corporate values are all part of our recipe for success.

Why work for Dawn Foods?

PEOPLE. PRODUCTS. CUSTOMERS.

Why should you apply? We invest in you!

• Industry-leading health insurance on Day 1!
• Competitive Pay
• 401(K) + company match
• 10 Paid Company Holidays
• Paid Time Off
• Professional training
• Family-owned business over 100 years in service
• An opportunity for career advancement, working as part of an empowering workforce.

The Senior Director FSQA is responsible for overseeing and coordinating the development, implementation, and optimization of compliance, food safety standards, quality management and audit process activities at Dawn Foods. This position oversees and enhances our organization s food safety programs, ensuring compliance with all federal and local regulatory standards, maintaining high-quality standards, and overseeing internal and external audits. As a Senior Leader, this role requires an elevated level of expertise, prior leadership experience, technical proficiency in food safety and compliance, quality management and audit processes.

This position is responsible for the coaching, supervision, and development of several direct reports.

The Senior Director, Food Safety & Quality Assurance, will provide oversight to all Corporate Quality and Plant Quality managers and will lead the following functions: plant quality, supplier quality, distribution quality, customer complaints, FSQA audits, Dawn Manufacturing, Dawn Distribution (buy/sell), and quality continuous improvement.

This is a remote position with 25-50% travel.

• Develop and implement the company s overall food safety, quality, and audit strategies in alignment with short-term and long-term business priorities.
• Provide strategic direction and guidance to cross-functional teams to ensure compliance with food safety regulations and industry best practices.
• Drives accountability and follow-through with all customer-related concerns, emphasizing efficient, quick resolution and short response times.
• Proven leadership, communication, and diplomacy skills needed to effect evolutionary change in Dawn quality processes. Develops people leaders who motivate teams and individuals.

• Develop, implement, and maintain robust food safety and quality management systems to ensure compliance with applicable regulations, standards, and certifications (FDA, HACCP, GFSI, ISO, etc.).
• Develop new methods and tools to enhance food safety and quality management processes. Ability to drive change management to improve across the North American Quality Team.
• Create and maintain methods for establishing project priorities, defining metrics, and tracking progress.
• Foster a Culture of Quality throughout the organization.
• Set and help meet Quality goals (First Pass Quality), Customer Complaint rate, etc., and build a culture of continuous improvement.

• Stay updated on relevant food safety regulations, industry trends, and emerging technologies; ensure organization-wide compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
• Interact with regulatory agencies, auditors, and certification bodies to address inquiries, inspections, and audits.

• Review results and action plans from third-party audits and inspections, including customer, regulatory, and certification audits.

• Lead and manage a team of food safety, quality and audit professionals, providing mentorship, coaching and development opportunities to ensure high-quality talent.

Below are the minimum…