Food Safety and QA Manager- Woodrow Location

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:

• Formulate and maintain quality objectives that are integrated with achieving corporate goals.
• Ensure Regulatory Compliance.
• Integrates and disseminates Salm quality philosophy to all personnel throughout the organization.
• Ensure corporate compliance with all aspects of SQF and customer-specific standards; administer Quality Assurance programs to ensure product is produced to customer specifications.
• Serve the company’s HACCP Coordinator and Food Safety Compliance Representative.
• Serve as back up to the SQF Compliance Manager.
• Act as a liaison between Salm Partners and the respective customers’ Food Safety & QA groups.
• Develop, maintain, execute and administer Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOP) and related Master Sanitation programs.
• Develop and initiate standards and methods for inspection, testing, and evaluation.
• Review data obtained during all quality control and quality assurance activities to ensure consistency with company policies and procedures.
• Coordinate the selection, implementation, inventory control and ordering of sanitation chemicals.
• Develop, maintain, execute and administer HACCP and related food safety programs, including Prerequisite Programs, Standard Operating Procedures and Good Manufacturing Practices.
• Develop, maintain and administer environmental & product sampling.
• Investigate and respond to customer and consumer complaints in a timely fashion with a coordinated positive resolution
• Oversee and manage the Internal Audit and Corrective Action processes for the company; ensure prompt responses and changes are implemented as necessary.
• Communicate the Quality Key Performance Indicators (KPI) metrics on a weekly, monthly and yearly basis, keeping the leadership team abreast of significant issues or developments.
• Design and implement quality training programs for plant partners on QA and Food Safety procedures.
• Apply statistical process control (SPC) methods for analyzing data to evaluate current processes and process changes.
• Reviews all data obtained during quality control and quality assurance activities to ensure consistency with Salm policies and procedures.
• Evaluate new vendors to ensure they are able to meet the customer requirements for raw material selection, and ensures vendor compliance with quality through a Vendor Review program.
• Direct inspection and testing activities to ensure continuous control over materials and products.
• Maintain a current working knowledge of government and industry quality codes and standards.
• Develop reports supporting Sales/Marketing, Operations and Engineering and other functional departments.
• Is Backup to the Director of Food Safety and Quality in their absence.
• FSQA Supervisors will provide backup in case of an absence.
• Actively support and participate in the safety initiatives of the organization.
• Support and participate in the Lean Manufacturing initiatives of the company.
• Support WFSP initiatives as requested
• Evaluate and develop individual competency development plans for department to build bench strength and the next generation of Leaders.
• Responsible for meeting company OKR’s, (Objectives Key Results) as set forth by Salm Partners Leadership.
• Perform all other duties and special projects as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities

Directly supervises the FSQA Supervisors. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training, planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining; addressing complaints and resolving work issues. Thorough understanding of USDA-FSIS regulations and standards is required.