JOB SUMMARY:

The QFS (Quality and Food Safety) Manager is responsible for the daily quality control and quality analysis of the facility’s inbound/outbound products and ingredients and is responsible for managing the site’s food safety program. The plant operates twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. The lab covers all shifts necessary to operate the facility.
This position reports to the Plant Manager and has a dotted line to the Regional Quality Manager.

Essential Job Functions:

• Provides leadership, support, and guidance to ensure that Food Safety/Quality requirements are met.
• Manages, plans, implements, and continuously improves the Food Safety/Quality divisional programs.
• Enforce Quality goals and KPIs, Food Safety/Quality, maintain Food Safety plan, and supports Operations for continuous improvement.
• Ensure the processes and systems are adequate to implement, achieve, and maintain 3rd party certifications (i.e., GMP+, SQF, etc.) and FDA compliance (21 CFR 507 and/or 21 CFR 117).
• Oversee usage of and provide support for information technology systems (i.e., Policy Tech, APeCS, GEMINI, etc.)
• Tracks and reports the Cost of Poor Quality to drive continuous improvement in the plant.
• Manages the Food Safety/Quality Team
• Maintenance and maintaining of laboratory equipment
• Excellent communication, problem solving, and good decision making skills are required.
• The ability to provide motivation to direct reports, and demonstrate leadership qualities to all plant personnel is needed.
• Escalates and communicates quality and food safety issues, as required, to Plant Management, Regional QFS, BU NA QFS Director and the Technology Center.
• Manage day to day Laboratory/Quality Control activities and technicians ((staffing, scheduling, performance, development, and progression)
• Be able to troubleshoot analytical equipment (including outside of business hours if necessary)
• Maintain analytical equipment, Manage laboratory preventive maintenance program and equipment service calls
• Assist in investigations into the determination of root cause for Quality related deviations/rejections and nonconformities
• Manage inventory and safety of all lab chemicals and supplies
• Communicate all quality issues with facility management.

Job Qualifications:

• Preferred 4 year degree or equivalent 7 year Food Safety experience in a Food manufacturing and laboratory environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills a must. Ability to communicate and interact with all levels of the organization, including senior management, customers, and regulatory officials as needed.

Working Conditions:

• Employees in this position working at this location are [or may be] exposed to various potential chemical and food allergens due to the nature of our business and the requirements of the job. If there is any reason such exposure would interfere with your ability to perform this role or work at the location, please notify the hiring manager.

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to stand, walk, and lift up to fifty (50) pounds.
• Lifting or carrying of weights over fifty (50) pounds is rare; employees are encouraged to request assistance in lifting or carrying objects that weigh more than fifty (50) pounds.

Relocation Assistance is available with this position.
Excited about this role but don’t think you meet every requirement listed? We encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this role or another one of our openings.
ADM requires the successful completion of a background check.

Please refer the Job description for details