Job Title: Manager, Quality | Kentland, IN, US
Reports to: Plant Manager
Requirements:
- A university degree or equivalent professional experience is mandatory.
- A minimum of 3 years in a leadership role.
- At least 3 years of experience in quality control, preferably in the food or beverage sector.
- A minimum of 2 years of experience in manufacturing with a company that produces beverages, food, or liquid consumer goods.
- Certification in HACCP or the ability to obtain certification upon employment.
Role Summary: The Quality Assurance Manager is responsible for managing Quality Assurance at the factory level for distribution across multiple states. This includes ensuring the production of safe and consistently high-quality products, overseeing both branded and private label production, and enforcing company-wide quality assurance policies and programs.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the execution of the Food Safety Modernization Act at the factory.
- Ensure adherence to company-wide quality assurance programs to prevent quality or safety issues at manufacturing facilities (including offsite storage).
- Monitor the quality results of finished products to meet company and customer specifications.
- Oversee the quality assurance team.
- Manage departmental expenditure within budget.
- Enhance the skills of direct reports and factory employees.
- Maintain the factory in a state ready for audits and inspections.
- Provide support for audits by customers, regulatory bodies, and third parties.
- Identify and lead initiatives for Process Improvement.
- Build relationships with Factory and QA supervisors across various company locations.
- Develop and document a comprehensive HACCP and QACCP plan for the factory.
- Create and maintain a specific QA/QC SOP manual for the factory.
- Troubleshoot issues related to finished product production, investigate root causes, and implement corrective actions.
- Implement controls, sample plans, modifications to the hold/release system, code rotation, batching, and processing controls.
- Coordinate QA efforts with R&D.
- Monitor the effectiveness of the integrated pest management system.
- Ensure manufacturing and raw material specifications are up-to-date and enforced.
- Stay updated on industry, regulatory, and certifying agency guidelines.
- Oversee change management at the factory.
- Manage regulatory components within the assigned region (process filings, water quality testing, unannounced inspections, label compliance, net weight, etc.).
- Participate in monthly financial calls.
Necessary Skills:
- Understand financial information for effective communication across the organization.
- Learn and use software programs (e.g., Presage, Margin Miner, JDE) to evaluate quality data.
- Apply sanitation knowledge to develop risk-based cleaning procedures.
- Analyze financial statements, company metrics, and water capital projects.
- Work independently on multiple projects.
- Familiarity with administrative and clerical procedures (word processing, file management, form design, etc.)
