Arrowhead Talent Solutions is helping a food manufacturing company fill a Quality Leader role in the Youngstown, OH area. Responsibilities
- Leading the company's Quality Assurance and Food Safety strategies and tactics. He or she will also partner with operations on needed insight and guidance to the sanitation function who report to operations. He or she develops and implements processes and systems to achieve high quality products.
- Creation, implementation, enforcement, and regular updates to QA/QC policies, protocols, procedures, training and testing/inspection/audit programs for the company's operations and suppliers that meet or exceed evolving governmental regulations and customer expectations, to ensure all company products comply with high safety and quality standards.
- Leading, updating, monitoring, and communicating properly on the Food Safety Management Program.
- Providing leadership to Quality Assurance and Food Safety including selection, required training, coaching, establishing goals and performance management. He or she will mentor, guide, and inspire the teams to ensure professional growth, accountability, efficiency, and quality of work.
- Ensuring company compliance with all GFSI, HACCP, FSSC regulations. Working with health inspectors related to all compliance issues (i.e. alleged food borne illness incidences, contamination of food supply, etc.) as well as with local health inspectors and/or customers to resolve issues.
- Developing an external network to benchmark and assess industry and regulatory trends that impact the business; developing plans to mitigate risks.
- Identifying and communicating key quality, regulatory responsibilities and practices to ensure the organization promotes a healthy attitude in these areas.
- Proactively and effectively partner with operations, sales and other internal teams to communicate, train, solve issues and improve all related efforts.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Quality, Operations or equivalent work experience.
- Ten to fifteen years of related experience in a manufacturing environment on plant floor, interacting with all levels of people.
- Thorough understanding of Good Manufacturing Practices, HACCP, and FSSC Standards.