Job Description: Key Responsibilities: The Quality Manager leads a team of Quality Supervisors and Technicians and is responsible for managing food safety and quality within a business unit. Activities include implementing, leading and managing food safety and food quality programs, developing and strengthening customer relations, providing a strong floor leadership presence and delivering continuous improvement. The individual will be required to provide direction, lead and manage projects, coordinate actions and deliver tangible results/improvements. Core responsibilities will include the following:
- Lead and manage a quality team and ensure resources are actively engaged
- Proactively plan, identify, develop and implement process and quality system improvements to meet Roskam policy, customer requirements, and/or SQF requirements
- Conduct process and/or product risk assessments
- Develop and implement preventive controls aligned with regulatory requirements
- Develop corrective/preventative action plans, leveraging internal resources to deliver results
- Promote GMP compliance
- Manage internal and external audit schedules
- Deliver and manage training programs
- Professionally represent quality to external customers and governmental agencies.
- Deliver continuous improvement (reduce/prevent internal failures, deliver right first time)
- Manage and mitigate food safety and quality risk
Required and Preferred Qualifications Required:
- Demonstrated people and team leadership skills (3+ years of supervisory experience)
- Strong working knowledge of quality systems (5+ years of food safety/quality system management)
- Demonstrated experience with GFSI quality system implementation and management
- Experience with FDA and GMP's
- Strong interpersonal skills to include team building and oral communication
- Strong customer facing and presentation skills
- Strong project management and planning skills
- Demonstrated data analysis and statistical process control skills
- Demonstrated accomplishment in the area of continuous improvement
- Strong documentation skills
Preferred:
- BS degree in Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, Food Science or a related scientific field
- Demonstrated SQF implementation skills
- Strong regulatory awareness in the food sector
We are excited to introduce you to all that Roskam has to offer-from the many valuable benefits to programs that support your lifestyle needs and opportunities for professional development. Roskam is an equal opportunity employer.