Job Description

QA / Food Safety Manager

Position Summary

The Quality Assurance & Food Safety Manager is responsible for leading food safety and quality programs. This role directs the Quality Assurance Department of the Florida-based facility. This position reports to the Senior Quality Assurance Corporate Manager.

Your Tasks

• Lead a culture of quality and food safety.
• Manage a team of skilled technical staff.
• Train to advance knowledge across key teams (production staff, maintenance, management, sanitation teams).
• Improve our products and processes with cross-functional teamwork.
• Manages quality and food safety programs in accordance with organization’s objectives.
• Ensures product and documentation requirements are in compliance for regulatory (FDA, State Health Departments, USDC), customer, and third parties.
  • Leads all inspections relating to Customer, GFSI, Sustainability, and regulatory organizations.
• Maintain a continuous improvement plan to ensure that products and processes meet and exceed company and regulatory standards.
• Manage and maintain HACCP, SSOP, SOP, EMP and GMP programs according to relevant up-to-date scientific research/information and according to current regulatory/third party standards.
• Manage vendor compliance programs to assure that products and vendors are qualified to meet the company’s and regulatory standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to determine efficient ways to process and distribute our products in accordance with all food and safety regulations.
• Provide support and guidance to the Customer Service Department for food safety and quality related issues.
  • Leads facility corrective action plans to address regulatory deficiencies, product related consumer complaints, and food safety/quality deficiencies.
• Work in collaboration with R&D and Engineering to ensure accuracy and compliance of product and process information.
• Maintain Seafood HACCP Certification and ensure full compliance of the company’s. manufacturing processes.
• Document and implement a robust Listeria control program, complete with:
  • Training guidelines for Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPs) and Sanitation Standard Operating Practices
  • Inclusive of training for production managers, production staff, 3rd party contract services (e.g., sanitation), and maintenance staff.

Your Profile

• 5+ years in food manufacturing setting
• B.S. in Food Science, Biology, Microbiology, Chemistry, or related field.
• Experience working within an FDA or USDA regulated facility.
• Experience in food manufacturing in the Technical and Quality function. 3+ years of experience preferred.
• Knowledge or certification of USFDA’s Seafood HACCP Guidelines a plus.
• Knowledge of quality assurance and food safety standards, including third party standards such as GFSI (BRC and SQF).
• Outstanding organizational skills and the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously. Must pay meticulous attention to detail.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in diverse groups and ability to influence others.
• Ability to spend up to 80% of time on plant environment.