(Aerospace) Quality Manager

Position Summary

Our client, a multibillion-dollar food manufacturer with well-known, iconic brands seeks a passionate Quality Assurance Manager for a key facility.

• As a critical member of the Plant Leadership Team, you will be responsible for the food safety and quality. This is a fantastic opportunity to utilize state-of-the-art methods, tools, and procedures to deliver zero defects from incoming raw materials to outgoing finished goods in a food-safe environment.
  
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives to produce the best-in-class cost of quality.
  
• Reporting to the Plant Manager, you will have significant managerial responsibilities including leading, mentoring and managing 20 reports (Quality and Sanitation).
  
• Highly visible opportunity with strong career growth potential.
  

Responsibilities:

• Implement and assure compliance with all Food Safety, Regulatory, and Quality policies.
  
• Ensure USDA and FDA regulations and respective plant programs are in compliance.
  
• Maintain a robust food safety program (e.g. QRMP, HACCP, sanitation, pest control, GMP, traceability).
  
• Ensure implementation of and compliance with Sanitation policies, programs, and procedures.
  
• Ensure compliance /audit readiness - review all quality systems and policies annually.
  
• Act as primary interface with regulatory agency representatives at the facility.
  
• Develop plant Quality KPIs and scorecard.
  
• Review quality management system metrics with the plant leadership.
  
• Ensure appropriate documentation is in place to support compliance to policies and procedures.
  
• Manage plant quality labs to ensure all methods, equipment, and measurements meet gauge reliability and repeatability (R&R) standards in both the laboratory and all plant processes.
  
• Ensure standard work through the development of work documentation and training to standards.
  
• Own customer/consumer complaint investigation and resolution.
  
• Develop, implement and communicate an effective product containment program to ensure appropriate control of quality/food safety defects.
  
• Coach/develop all plant leaders in regard to quality and statistical tools.
  
• Manage core training and certification processes at the local site.
  
• USDA manufacturing compliance.
  
• Use continuous improvement tools (UPS, quality index, etc.) to identify opportunities and development improvement plans.
  
• Oversee product quality with regards to new product implementation and introduction into the market.
  

Requirements

Qualifications:

• Bachelor s Degree.
  
• 3+ years of relevant experience in Quality Assurance in Food/Beverage/Pharmaceutical manufacturing.
  
• 1+ years Leadership experience.
  
• Lean manufacturing, a plus.
  

Benefits