Quality Assurance Manager

5 days ago


Emporia, Kansas, United States Simmons Pet Food Inc Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Quality Assurance Manager to join our team at Simmons Pet Food Inc. As a key member of our organization, you will be responsible for ensuring the highest standards of quality and food safety in our products.

Key Responsibilities
  • Lead compliance with quality, food safety, and regulatory requirements
  • Connect and integrate internal and external quality assurance procedures
  • Detect and correct out-of-specification situations
  • Optimize product and process implementation
  • Support other departments in ensuring quality awareness and regulatory requirements
Essential Position Responsibilities
  • Leads quality, food safety, and regulatory programs
  • Oversees HACCP, GMP, SSOP, GFSI, quality, and related programs
  • Ensures quality meets or exceeds company and customer guidelines
  • Provides risk analysis and technical expertise
  • Utilizes corrective action and preventive action methods
Process Champion
  • Fits new customer requirements into existing processes
  • Drives continuous improvement
  • Meets with customers to define scope of new projects
  • Assists in evaluating projects and monitoring efforts
Communication and Teamwork
  • Ensures open communication with personnel
  • Guides and develops cooperative relationships between plant and quality personnel
  • Effectively communicates specifications, quality, and food safety requirements
  • Leads and participates in meetings with quality and production personnel
Customer and Regulatory Interaction
  • Ensures open communication with customers and regulatory personnel
  • Maintains open communication on quality issues, customer expectations, and regulatory requirements
  • Leads and participates in meetings with customers and regulatory personnel
Equipment Validation
  • Participates in equipment calibration and validation
  • Qualifies new equipment and conducts verification studies
  • Participates in online equipment validation
Leadership and Management
  • Supervises employees' work activities and monitors performance
  • Collaborates with HR to screen, interview, and hire candidates
  • Administers disciplinary actions and recommends performance improvement actions
Technical Experience
  • 5 years of experience in food processing with experience related to food safety, quality management, and/or process development
  • Knowledge of animal nutrition and food formulation and thermal process is highly desirable
  • Experience in commercial product and/or process development is required
Industry Experience
  • Preference for food processing organization
Education
  • Depending on assigned business unit(s), Bachelor's Degree in Food Science, Animal Nutrition, Animal Science, Meat Science, Engineering, or related degree
  • Required experience is balanced by education level


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