Quality And Food Safety Site Manager - Erlanger, KY

Job Description

Quality and Food Safety Site Manager - Erlanger, KY

This is a full-time, exempt level position.

Main function:

This individual leads the Erlanger, KY ADM Flavors Quality and Food Safety team in a fast-paced environment that will support the implementation and enforcement of the Quality and Food Safety Management System requirements throughout the manufacturing process to ensure execution and compliance with company policies / processes, regulatory requirements, cGMP, and Industry standards. Applications of strong quality and food safety technical skills and problem solving / organizational skills, and people management will be practiced daily. The Quality and Food Safety Team is comprised of a ~50 hourly, salaried, and contracted professionals. Oversite of contract manufacturing and external warehouses supporting the business will be expected.

Key skills & competencies:

• People leadership. Charismatic and people motivator

• Bias for action - process focused.

• Prioritization of consistent issues and opportunities to manage risk and urgency

• Data driven - statistical analysis

Description of work performed:

• Will lead and be accountable for all Quality and Food Safety systems and performances for facility and supportive warehouses. Owns site GFSI and PRP programs.

• Lead a team to maintain Quality and Food Safety Management System requirements throughout the manufacturing and supply chain process to ensure execution and compliance with company policies / processes, regulatory requirements, cGMP, ISO, and other Industry standards.

• Collaboration and leadership with cross-functional teams such as operations, customer quality, commercial, regulatory, R&D, etc., to ensure quality and good safety processes and programs are met

• Owns facility Food Safety Plans, Food Defense plans, Sanitation standards, and Risk/hazard assessments. Responsible to ensure continually accurate and meets defined requirements and intent of code.

• Ensure effective monitoring and communication of corporate performance metrics as well as local metrics to improve areas of focus.

• Responsible to be point of contact for all external customer, regulatory, and certification audits as well as follow-up and corrective action completion/verification of effectiveness.

• Provides oversight and support for all Significant Quality Events (SQE) and Serious Quality Near-misses and critical CAPA's

• Ensures all quality and food safety process and preventative controls are followed and effective for the facility.

• Routine presence in production facility to demonstrate leadership and support. Will perform internal audits, management review, verification activities, and CAPA reviews, etc. as needed.

• Provide QFS involvement for site and business development, growth, and improvement process and capital activities not owned and managed by the quality team

Requirements:

• Four (4) year University degree in a science related field (i.e., Food Science/Engineering, Microbiology, Food or Analytical Chemistry, etc.) preferred.

• 8+ years' experience in managing quality control, quality assurance, and food safety in a food processing environment. Flavors Quality experience preferred.

• Experience in facility with FSSC 22000 certification

• Human food safety auditing experience in an industrial setting

• HACCP/ HARPC/PCQI trained

• Experience in Flavors business preferred, but not required

• Experience in GFSI schemes, organic, kosher, FSMA Food Safety Plan, and FSVP

• Strong interpersonal, communication, and leadership skills

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REF: 82789BR