Central Quality Assurance Manager

5 days ago


Ankeny, Iowa, United States Lauridsen Group Inc. Full time
Job Title: Central Quality Assurance Manager

At Lauridsen Group Inc., we are seeking a highly skilled Central Quality Assurance Manager to join our team. This role will be responsible for developing and maintaining a supplier assessment program across our companies, ensuring compliance with SOPs, SSOPs, formulas, government compliance procedures, recall procedures, HACCP/Food Safety Plans, and similar type programs.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Provide leadership in building an effective central quality support team for Shared Services that interacts professionally and effectively with other departments across the LGI companies.
  • Manage the development and maintenance of the vendor (supplier) assessment program across the LGI companies.
  • Responsible for supplier audits for compliance with SOPs, SSOPs, formulas, government compliance procedures, recall procedures, HACCP/Food Safety Plans, and similar type programs.
  • Oversee supplier nonconforming materials and corrective actions, which includes trending reports as part of the supplier management program and following up on supplier corrective actions (SCAR's) to ensure sufficient changes have been implemented.
  • Work closely with the Directors of Quality & Food Safety and Regulatory Affairs with central quality support needs by the manufacturing sites and businesses.
Requirements:
  • Knowledge of food technology, microbiology, and chemistry sufficient to fulfill the needs of this position.
  • An overall knowledge of quality assurance management procedures, HACCP, FSMA, and GFSI.
  • Ability to work effectively cross-functionally in a professional manner.
  • Ability to work with minimal supervision and execute job expectations timely.
  • Ability to communicate effectively with plant personnel, raw material suppliers, sales staff, customer service personnel, and QA/RA team.
About Us:

Lauridsen Group Inc. is a collection of independent companies with each dedicated to discovering and producing products to enhance health and nutrition. Our companies have the ability and charge to be entrepreneurial, to seek out new markets, to develop new products and applications, and to discover new ways to add value through fractionation and novel applications.

We are headquartered in Ankeny, IA, and maintain fifty manufacturing and sales locations in twenty countries and sales in more than sixty countries.



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