Manager Plant Quality

3 weeks ago

St Elmo, United States Conagra Brands Full time

Job Summary

Reporting to the Director of Food Safety Quality, the Manager Plant Quality ensures food safety and quality of all products produced in the plant. You will ensure specifications are defined and communicated. You will perform inspections of processes, employee training, compliance with applicable food laws and regulations and maintains plant HACCP plans to regulatory compliance. You will define best lab practices and provide guidance and adherence to quality policies and participate in resolving customer complaints. You will be an integral part of plant leadership team and will provide support to Sales, R&D and Operations on customer issues and questions.

You will:

  • Comply with all company safety policies and procedures as well as complying with all OSHA rules and regulations. (THINK SAFETY FIRST.)

  • Ensure all plant personnel adhere to good manufacturing practices (GMP) including proper waste disposal, personal hygiene and personal practices.

  • Develop and present to all employees a complete orientation process which provides training in the Key Concepts of Food Safety and Quality and understands that identification of any failures in these areas is their responsibility. Maintain compliance to annual training requirements.

  • Work closely with Operations and Maintenance to drive Food Safety and Quality ownership to the floor

  • Train and develop subordinates in the performance of their duties

  • Manage Plant timelines and critical milestones for the Food safety and Quality Improvement Plan and other food safety/quality metrics (ie. Complaint reduction, quality incident reduction, and quality index scores)

  • Interpret, analyze, and communicate quality and food safety issues, both internal and external (consumer complaints), and initiates applicable corrective measures

  • Ensure compliance to all applicable regulatory agency requirements ( USDA, FDA, CFIA, etc.)

  • Liaison with local USDA and or FDA inspectors and any other food regulatory officers that visit the plant

  • Provide leadership for compliance to food safety and quality programs

  • Implement and maintain quality programs. i.e., HACCP to regulatory and company requirements; maintain SQF certification; specifications for raw and finished materials; recall program; environmental monitoring program; and comprehensive pest control program.

  • Develop corrective action when Food Safety or Quality deficiency is identified.

  • Be a liaison for all technical and QC issues between operations, RQI, and sales/marketing departments

  • Provide Corporate with quality assurance assistance involving vendor issues, both improvements and corrective measures

  • Oversee product quality with regards new product implementation and introduction into market. Ensure use of applicable MOPD and CQV tools.

  • FS&Q pillar owner for Conagra Performance System. Utilize continuous improvement tools (UPS, quality index, etc.) to identify opportunity and development improvement plans.

You Have:

  • B. S. degree in Biology, Food Science, or other related program

  • Good verbal and written communication skills

  • Ability to train and teach others

  • Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents

  • Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community

  • Ability to effectively present information to top management or public groups

  • Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis; formalizing process capability, institutionalizing process control and predictive quality process

  • Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions

  • Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables

  • Skills in monitoring and measurement of process control, auditing, manufacturing of food products, sanitation process, knowledge of HACCP, SSOP regulations, skills in team leadership, effective communication, and root cause analysis

Physical Requirements

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee frequently is required to stand and walk. The employee is occasionally required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, and feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; taste and smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. The employee will be exposed to a noisy environment that varies from hot to cold in temperature. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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Our Benefits:

We care about your total well-being and will support you with the following, subject to your location and role:

  • Health: Medical, dental and vision insurance, company-paid life, accident and disability insurance
  • Wealth: great pay, incentive opportunity, matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan
  • Growth: online courses, virtual and classroom development experiences
  • Balance: paid-time off, parental leave, flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role)

Our Company:

Conagra Brands is one of North America's leading branded food companies. We have a rich heritage of making great food, and a team thats passionate about innovation and growth. Conagra offers choices for every occasion through iconic brands, such as Birds Eye, Marie Callender's, Banquet, Healthy Choice, Slim Jim, Reddi-wip, and Vlasic, and emerging brands, including Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP, Duke's, Earth Balance, Gardein, and Frontera.

We pride ourselves on having the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in the food industry. For more information, visit www.conagrabrands.com.

Conagra Brands is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, leave status, disability, veteran status, genetic information and/or any other characteristic or status protected by national, federal, state or local law. ?

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