Manager Food Safety and Quality Othello

Position Title: Manager Food Safety and Quality Othello

Position Type: Regular
- Full-Time

Requisition : 42909

In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and interested in helping each other create good work experiences. We think about the customer and make doing business with McCain easy.

We are currently looking for a Manager Food Safety and Quality
, located in Othello, WA

The Manager Food Safety and Quality provides the leadership necessary to establish and maintain the Food Safety quality levels of products through sanitation, raw materials, packaging and quality systems management. The Factory FSQ manager is the Guardian of quality compliance and challenger of all functions across the value chain to drive Continuous Improvements, support to Operations, Supply Chain, and Consumer Services, while fostering a cross functional quality, compliance and performance culture.

The Manager Food Safety and Quality Is responsible for leadership and the development, implementation and management of all Food Safety Quality Assurance programs and activities.

• Provide technical expertise and support to ensure compliance to McCain’s regional and global requirements/Policies, regulatory requirements, product quality, and food safety.
• Utilizes tools such as auditing, process evaluation, trend analysis to achieve continuous improvement and business objectives.
• Reports to the Director Food Safety & Quality Operations West.
• Direct and supervise the development, implementation and administration of FSQ activities in all phases of production at factory level (Quality Management Systems).
• Lead Quality Strategy Deployment at the site, improving established ways of working and delivering and improving key metrics/KPI reflected in the company business objectives.
• Manage quality and food safety incidents at the site level, supporting decision making for out of specification materials and products, ensuring that relevant corrective and preventive actions are defined and implemented.
• Serve as the primary FSQ lead for export customers, ensuring all products meet customer-specific requirements, international regulatory standards, and McCain quality expectations prior to shipment.
• Partner with commercial, supply chain, and customer teams to address export-related quality concerns, including complaints, deviations, and audits, driving timely root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Promote Food Safety and quality awareness and ownership in the factory and internal/external warehouse.
• Ensure compliance of the audit programs for internal and external audits i.e. FSSC 22000/BRC/SQF, KEFSQ, etc.
• Ensure the effective operation of HACCP and Food Safety Teams.
• Identify and apply “Standard Practices” within the facility or from the broader network.
• Communication of new and/or updated Regulatory Policies within the facility.
• Supervise the activities of department personnel, with strong emphasis on people development.
• Assist in the development and execution of FSQ training programs to ensure proper training for plant personnel.
• Participate in new/changed equipment/process projects with Engineering, including conducting risk assessments and monitoring agreed upon mitigations.
• Manage held product with authority to disposition appropriately and record accordingly.
• Liaison between corporate R&D team and plant management to ensure efficient handover of new product development, PSTs, and Product Optimization.
• Other duties as assigned.

• B.S. in Food Science, Dairy Science, Microbiology, Chemistry, Biology or similar scientific discipline
• Minimum 5-7 years Quality Management experience, preferably in food manufacturing or consumer goods industry.
• Must have strong knowledge and understanding of food safety / HACCP, GMPs, Allergen Controls, Sanitary design/controls, pest control, basic food regulations, specifications, analytical and microbiological lab methods desired and basic food technology.
• Knowledge of Quality systems and Root cause analysis.
• Knowledge of Micro and Hygiene/Sanitation monitoring.
• FSMA, PCQI, GFSI certifications preferred.

• Auditing and assessment skills.
• Understanding of basic food safety…