Food Safety and Quality Manager - FSQ Supervisor, HACCP, SQF

FSQA/Food Safety & Quality Manager

Location:

USDA Inspected Food/Meat/Snack product Production Facility Department:
Food Safety & Quality/FSQA

We are seeking an experienced Food Safety & Quality Manager to oversee all site level food safety, quality, and regulatory programs within our USDA regulated meat snacks manufacturing plant. This leader is responsible for maintaining a robust, audit ready Quality Management System, serving as the facility's SQF Practitioner, and ensuring full compliance with HACCP, regulatory standards, customer expectations, and internal policies.

As part of the Senior Leadership Team, this position plays a critical role in shaping food safety culture, optimizing processes, and driving continuous improvement across all departments. The ideal candidate brings strong leadership experience in meat or poultry processing and a deep understanding of regulatory and third party certification environments.

• Lead, coach, and develop FSQA Team Members to strengthen food safety awareness, technical skills, and accountability.
• Provide performance management, training, and hands-on direction for the FSQA department.

• Manage the sites SQF Quality System, including program updates, implementation, verification, and annual reviews.
• Oversee HACCP plans, prerequisite programs, sanitation protocols, and other preventive control initiatives.
• Serve as the facility's subject matter expert for regulatory compliance, customer specifications, and internal quality standards.

• Investigate and resolve food safety and quality issues using risk based tools and root cause methodologies.
• Establish systems to trend quality and safety performance, analyze data, and lead improvement strategies.
• Partner with cross functional teams to embed food safety into daily operations and long term initiatives.

• Function as the primary onsite contact for USDA FSIS and other regulatory or certification bodies.
• Ensure readiness for internal audits, customer visits, and third party assessments.
• Report regularly to Senior Leadership on compliance metrics, product performance, and continuous improvement progress.

• Bachelors Degree is preferred, although may consider those with Associate degree or higher, with directly applicable experience in a relevant field required.
• 5 or more years of leadership experience in Food Safety & Quality within the prepared meat, Protein products, meat or poultry industry ideally, but in the FOOD MANUFACTURING WORLD, is an absolute must.

• Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Meat Science, Microbiology, Animal Science, or a related discipline.
• More than 5 years of supervisory experience in FSQA in a USDA environment.

• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with all levels of the organization.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; bilingual Spanish/English strongly preferred.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office and digital document management systems.
• HACCP certification required; strong experience in preventive controls and risk based program management.
• Working knowledge of SQF or comparable GFSI schemes; experience serving as an SQF Practitioner is highly desirable.
• Strong analytical skills with hands-on experience in process control, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement tools.
• Proven leadership skills in a high volume food manufacturing environment.

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