Senior Manager, Food Safety and Quality Assurance - Manufacturing - Dairy Plant - Valdosta, GA

Senior Manager, Food Safety and Quality Assurance - Manufacturing - Dairy Plant - Valdosta, GA

Lead our dairy plant’s food safety and quality assurance functions, ensuring compliance with federal, state, and local regulations while driving continuous improvement and risk mitigation.

$89,500.00/yr – $/yr

• Ensure plant compliance with all quality and food safety standards through process reviews, routine testing, and incident investigations.
• Partner with plant teams, including sanitation leadership, to integrate safety and quality into training, processes, and performance metrics.
• Lead the development, implementation, and maintenance of quality and food safety standards, policies, controls, and guidelines.
• Communicate trends and data regarding quality and food safety issues to stakeholders and collaborate on risk reduction initiatives.
• Develop and execute strategic plans to enhance processes, procedures, and training tools, monitoring new metrics and trend reports.
• Drive enhancements by reviewing audits and regulatory inspection reports, developing standards to meet all regulatory and Walmart corporate expectations.

• Extensive senior-level experience in food safety and quality assurance, preferably in a food processing environment.
• Strong analytical skills with a proven ability to ensure compliance with food safety standards.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence and persuade others.
• Expertise in strategic planning and driving food safety enhancements.
• Commitment to promoting company policies, procedures, mission, values, and ethics.

• Bachelor’s degree in food science or related area with minimum 8 credit hours each in microbiology and chemistry and 5 years’ experience in food or dairy quality assurance.
• 10 years’ experience in food or dairy processing quality assurance.
• 1 year’s supervisory experience, preferably in a manufacturing lab environment.
• 2 years’ Safe Quality Food (SQF) process experience or 2 years Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) process experience.
• 1 year’s experience utilizing Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), SPC Programs, and SAP.

• Additional training and/or certifications such as HACCP, USDA, FDA, OSHA, GMP, and SPC.
• Experience manufacturing, including laboratory and/or sanitation responsibilities.
• Master’s degree in Food Science, Biology, or related area.

Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug‑free workplace and have a no‑tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.