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Quality Assurance Manager

Employer
Thrive Foods
Location
Oak Creek
Salary
Competitive

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Industry
General
Role
Manager
Job Type
Long-Term
Hours
Full Time

Job Title: Quality Assurance Manager

Department: Quality and R&D

Reports to: Vice President of Quality

Essential Functions include:

  • The Quality Assurance Manager is responsible for leading and overseeing quality systems in a production plant designed to ensure continuous production of freeze-dried products and applications (consistent with established standards, customer specifications and production goals).
  • Ensures all requirements for FSMA (for both human foods and pet foods), SOP's, HACCP, FDA, SQF, are in place and complaint. The successful candidate will develop, manage, and execute the plant's food safety, quality assurance, and regulatory compliance policies and establish performance standards, procedures, and internal audit controls to meet business requirements.
  • The ideal candidate will have strong Project Management capabilities with an ability to manage multiple projects at any given time and apply efficient approaches to analytical and reporting processes.
  • The QA Manager will lead internal audits, as well as second- and third-party audits.
  • Additionally, the QA Manager documents and implements inspection criteria and procedures as outlined in the corporate standards and policies

Qualifications Include:

  • Minimum of 10 + years' experience in food manufacturing quality assurance.
  • Bachelor's Degree required, master's degree preferred in microbiology, food science, or chemical engineering. Proficiency in SQF, FSMA and other food safety and quality systems is required.
  • Must be HACCP, SQF, and PCQI (both Human Foods and Pet Foods) certified.
  • Prior knowledge of pet food APHIS certification highly desirable.
  • Travel up to 20% of the time may be required

Physical Requirements:

  • Occasional lifting, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling; occasional stooping, kneeling, crouching, and/or crawling; and frequent fine finger dexterity.
  • 50% or more sitting, 50% or more walking, and 40% or more standing.
  • The job is performed under occasional temperature variations and in a food manufacturing production environment.
  • Unrestricted visual and audio abilities are required for the safety of all employees. The ability to lift up to 40 lbs is required.



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