Field Food Safety & Quality Manager (Remote)

Job Category:

Quality

Job Family:

Enterprise Quality and Food Safety

Job Description:

As a Field Food Safety & Quality Manager, you will drive food safety and quality results across assigned domestic Schreiber facilities.  You will provide leadership and interface between Enterprise Quality and Food Safety, plant leaders, partners, support functions and selected customers.  You will be responsible for establishing food safety and quality expertise within each facility and develop quality professionals across the organization.

This position will be located remotely with travel up to 50%.

The candidate selected will be responsible for supporting the Yogurt Category.

What you’ll do:


* Ensure acceptable food safety and quality results in assigned facilities. 


* Monitor key processes, data and performance indicators that impact food safety, process consistency, product quality and profitability. 


* Identify gaps and work with plant teams as well as other groups to improve outcomes.


* Employ root cause analysis and associated methodologies to assess product and process challenges, coordinate remediation, communication, process/policy enhancements and coordinate corrective and preventative actions.


* Actively support Operations, Sales and other impacted groups in commercialization and capital projects driving food safety and quality deliverables.


* Train, educate and coach plant leaders and partners in quality processes as well as product requirements.  Expand quality insight throughout each facility and develop expertise within Quality leaders and professionals.


* Provide technical support to key customers.


* Support sustainability efforts through collaboration and audit support to SQF, Schreiber Production Systems and associated processes as a platform for Schreiber Food Safety and Quality Systems.


* Together with the leadership team, ensures compliance with Food Safety and Food Quality Plans, in addition to customer requirements.


* Interprets and communicates customer requirements to plant production and/or support groups.


* Establishes and Audits PCPs, CCPs and Standard Operating Procedures to define and monitor processes, to ensure customer requirements are met.


* Reviews incidents during which the procedures are not met, and determines appropriate corrective action for partners failing to follow standard procedures.

What you need to succeed:


* Bachelor’s Degree in Dairy/Food Science or related field


* 10 years of experience in Food Quality/Manufacturing


* Proven leadership and influence in cross-functional settings, excellent written and oral communication skills.


* Experience in food safety, quality methodologies, sanitation and audit processes.  Applied computer and process excellence (Green/Black belt) tools. 


* Experience with milk handling and PMO requirements preferred.


* Ability to travel up to 50%

Eligible partners will receive:...