Quality Manager (Food Safety)

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities:

The Quality Manager leads a team of Quality Supervisors and Technicians and is responsible for managing food safety and quality within a business unit. Activities include implementing, leading and managing food safety and food quality programs, developing and strengthening customer relations, providing a strong floor leadership presence and delivering continuous improvement. The individual will be required to provide direction, lead and manage projects, coordinate actions and deliver tangible results/improvements. Core responsibilities will include the following:

• Lead and manage a quality team and ensure resources are actively engaged
• Proactively plan, identify, develop and implement process and quality system improvements to meet Roskam policy, customer requirements, and/or SQF requirements
• Conduct process and/or product risk assessments
• Develop and implement preventive controls aligned with regulatory requirements
• Develop corrective/preventative action plans, leveraging internal resources to deliver results
• Promote GMP compliance
• Manage internal and external audit schedules
• Deliver and manage training programs
• Professionally represent quality to external customers and governmental agencies.
• Deliver continuous improvement (reduce/prevent internal failures, deliver right first time)
• Manage and mitigate food safety and quality risk

Required and Preferred Qualifications

Required:

• Demonstrated people and team leadership skills (3+ years of supervisory experience)
• Strong working knowledge of quality systems (5+ years of food safety/quality system management)
• Demonstrated experience with GFSI quality system implementation and management
• Experience with FDA and GMP's
• Strong interpersonal skills to include team building and oral communication
• Strong customer facing and presentation skills
• Strong project management and planning skills
• Demonstrated data analysis and statistical process control skills
• Demonstrated accomplishment in the area of continuous improvement
• Strong documentation skills

Preferred:

• BS degree in Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, Food Science or a related scientific field

• Demonstrated SQF implementation skills
• Strong regulatory awareness in the food sector

We are excited to introduce you to all that Roskam has to offer-from the many valuable benefits to programs that support your lifestyle needs and opportunities for professional development. Roskam is an equal opportunity employer.