Quality Assurance Manager - Plant

The QA Manager
- Plant provides leadership at the Plant for the development, implementation, and administration of the Quality Control functions to ensure product safety, integrity, and conformance with respect to customer, Divisional, Corporate and regulatory requirements.

This position will work in collaboration with the Plant and Divisional leadership to formulate and execute a strategic quality plan for the business. This role is 100% onsite.

• Responsible for managing vendor quality programs, as well as customer complaints through root cause analysis
• Provide leadership to develop and implement food safety programs, e.g., HACCP, GMPs, Pest Control, Recall, Food Allergen, and Environmental Monitoring
• As a member of the Plant Leadership Team, requires comprehensive understanding of the concepts and principles within their own functional area and also requires basic knowledge of these elements in other relevant functional areas in order to participate in the resolution of issues that have an impact beyond the area or impact multiple areas.
• This job has full management responsibility for the team.

Required

• Minimum of 7-10 years functional/leadership experience.
• Demonstrated significant and relevant skills and results in functional area.
• Strong leadership experience with demonstrated success in managing multiple projects and
• people.
  
  The job requires a detailed understanding of how all areas of the plant interact to contribute to the business.
• Requires a general understanding of the FMCG industry
• Requires extensive knowledge of HACCP, auditing, SSOP’s, GMP’s, FDA, OSHA, quality systems, and plant sanitation.

Educational Requirements:

• BSc in Technical Field
  - Quality/Research/Product Development

MS in Technical Field
- Quality/Research/Product Development

• Medical insurance, Vision insurance, Dental insurance, 401(k)
• Bachelor's Degree
• 7+ years of work experience with Business Leadership
• 5+ years of Food and Beverage Manufacturing