Director of Quality - FOOD
Company: Michael Page
Location: Meriden
Posted on: May 4, 2024
Job Description:
The Food Safety & Quality Director / SQF Practitioner leads the
Company's Food Safety and Quality Programs to ensure high quality
products are produced that meet or exceed customer expectations,
while ensuring full regulatory compliance. Client DetailsMy client
is a leading contract manufacturing and private label company (food
manufacturing industry.)DescriptionLeads Food Safety and Quality
programs by:
- Ensuring all aspects of food safety, food security, food
defense and customer quality systems are in place, functioning as
designed, being followed and correctly documented.
- Monitoring the effectiveness of the Company's Food Safety
System including CCPs and the Environmental Monitoring
Program.
- Driving continuous improvement of the program through
identifying ways to strengthen plans, process controls and food
safety and quality training.
- Promptly and thoroughly investigating a product or process
failure, determining root cause, identifying & implementing
corrective action, and determining product disposition as
needed.
- Reviewing trend data and reporting on KPIs.
- Chairing the Company's Food Safety and HACCP teams and serving
as Recall Coordinator.
- Ensuring compliance with all regulatory requirements for both
food and supplements, including any special regulations
/certifications such as FairTrade international, Kosher.
- Establishing and implementing food safety training programs and
ensuring the effectiveness of all training activities is
verified.
- Creating, writing and maintaining specifications for new and
existing products manufactured by the Company and components
thereof, including material specifications, recipe, manufacturing
procedures, finished product quality to comply with regulatory,
customer and Food Safety/Quality Assurance program
requirements.
- Ensuring weekly pest control inspections are conducted;
performs weekly pest control inspections as needed.
- Staying current on food safety regulations.
- Promoting food safety and quality awareness throughout the
Company.
- Leading the Quality team to ensure established food safety and
quality tasks are completed as assigned and that the results pose
no food safety risk or quality concern.
- Working with the head of Operations and Buyer to review
supplier performance as scheduled.Supervises the Sanitation Program
by:
- Ensuring sanitation tasks are completed timely.
- Reviewing and trending environmental monitoring test results,
investigating trends and implementing corrective action as
needed.
- Reporting trends to management at least monthly.General:
- Fully complying with company's safety, food safety & quality
policies.
- Must be compliant with the company's mandatory vaccination
policy.
- All other duties as assigned.Profile
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Food Science, Biology,
Physical Sciences or related field (Master's Degree a plus).
- Successful completion of formal training within the past 5
years in HACCP, HACCP Advanced, PCQI / FSCPA Preventive Controls
for Human Food and Implementing SQF Systems.
- Thorough understanding of FSMA and CFR Title 21 Section
117.
- Work experience in an SQF or GFSI certified food manufacturing
company (confectionery is a plus) and Quality Assurance/Quality
Control department.
- Proficiency in developing, implementing and maintaining SQF
Systems and HACCP based food safety plans.
- Experience developing and implementing an Environmental
Monitoring Program, validating it's achieving the desired results
and that the identified verification activities are occurring at
the appropriate frequency.
- Strong working knowledge of regulatory and customer
requirements related to food and supplement manufacturing.
- Experience hosting and managing audits and interacting with
customers and regulatory agencies.
- Proficiency in use of Microsoft Word and Excel, with some
knowledge of ACCESS a plus.
- Knowledge of Statistical Process Control (SPC) a plus.Skills
and Abilities:
- Management - Ability to lead, mentor, motivate, manage and
organize teams.
- Strong interpersonal skills including the ability to present
and train others.
- Keen attention to detail including identifying risks to food
safety, security and defense.
- Analytical - Ability to analyze, summarize and present
information in a logical and understandable manner.
- Problem solving - Ability to troubleshoot and problem solve
promptly.
- Ability to organize and prioritize.
- Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with
customers.
- Initiative - Identifies opportunities to strengthen the
Company's Food Safety and Quality Programs.
- Strong working knowledge of, or the ability to learn
(desired):
- Sciences and technology around chocolate processing.
- Raw materials relationship to related manufacturing
processes.
- Job-specific food safety & quality training: Certified SQF
Practitioner, Advanced HACCP, FSCPA Preventive Controls for Human
Food, GMPs, Handwashing, Allergens, Food Security/Food Defense/Food
Fraud, Adora, HACCP for Operators, Process Control-Weight and SQC
Pack, Weekly Pest Control Inspections.Job Offer
- PTO
- Holiday, Persona, Sick Time
- 401k plus match
- Health
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Life Insurance
- Short / Long Term DisabilityMPI does not discriminate on the
basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender
identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran
status, marital status, or based on an individual's status in any
group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local law.
MPI encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled,
protected veterans and all other qualified applicants.
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