Quality Manager

Quality Manager

The Quality Manager will lead in managing, enforcing, and implementing all our quality programs within a premix manufacturing plant primarily for the petfood and livestock industries.

This role is responsible for ensuring safe animal feed is produced in a manufacturing environment that blends highly concentrated vitamin, trace mineral and medicated products for livestock and pet premixes.

You will also interact with the production staff, providing coaching and training on quality standards, HACCP, and other regulatory initiatives.

You will also lead continuous improvement projects and provide root cause analysis and corrective actions to resolve issues.

Experience and Education Required-


* Bachelor's degree


* 3-5 years of progressive quality assurance experience in feed, food, or related fields of operation.


* Previous supervisory / regulatory experience


* PCQI and/or HACCP certified


* Experience working with 3 rd party quality management systems such as SQF, FAMI-QS, SFSF, etc.


* Knowledge of regulatory requirements to include HACCP, Animal Feed Safety Plans, GMP's.


* Strong communication/interpersonal/training/coaching skills.


* Ability to present independently or while collaborating with team members.


* High attention to detail, organizational skills, and ability to multitask and adapt to quickly changing priorities across multiple projects.


* Strong writing, analytical, problem solving, and critical thinking skills.


* Analytical problem solving/root cause analysis.


* Ability to be tactical, insightful and act strategically.


* Ability to handle customer complaints.


* Experience leading plant employees toward an improved food safe culture.


* Proficient with the Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Power BI).

% of Total Job Duty or Area of Responsibility

50%



* To ensure product safety and quality systems implementation, training, assessment, and compliance.


* Lead the facility Quality Incident Management Team by conducting root cause and corrective/preventive action analysis of customer complaints and internal issues related to manufacturing errors.


* Creating, updating, and implementing standard operating procedures (SOPs).


* Proactively manage and resolve product safety and regulatory issues in collaboration with the corporate quality team.


* Provide targeted follow-up on claims and complaints.


* Developing and overseeing internal and/or regulatory compliance of the sampling and testing program for raw materials, medicated and non-medicated finished goods to ensure product specifications are met.


* Develop and lead the Management of Change (MOC) process for the facility.

30%


* Develop a working knowledge of premix quality control, systems, processes, and procedures as related to plant manufacturing.


* Act as a champion for product safety/quality; monitor and repost on trend...