AddressThe Quality Assurance Manager develops, maintains and supervises all aspects of Quality Assurance, food safety, and raw/finished product testing. (S)he supervises the facility sanitation department to ensure compliance with food safety and quality requirements. (S)he provides oversight and direction for onsite quality testing lab and daily facility cleaning and sanitation activities.
Essential Duties:
- Directly supervise quality supervisors, laboratory and sanitation technicians and manage daily activities to ensure associates adhere to company safety requirements, cleaning and sanitation procedures and processes to meet GMP requirements.
- Develop and maintain a product testing lab for all composition and microbial testing of all raw ingredients and finished products.
- Review product testing and sampling requirements to ensure protocols are effective in ensuring food safety and product specifications are met.
- Maintain Food Quality Plan in compliance with regulatory and customer requirements.
- Work with contracted chemical supply representatives on review and enhancement of sanitation programs.
- Review plant operations to ensure daily review of regulatory verifications are completed. Review previous regulatory agency inspections and ensure follow up with both short term and long term corrective actions.
- Liaison between State/USDA officials and the plant.
- Conduct plant inspections to ensure plant sanitation, maintenance, and GMP programs are effective.
- Review customer comments and conduct complaint investigation/responses as needed.
- Manage and implement site CAPA program and collaborate with operations leaders to support continuous improvement initiatives.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree preferred
- 4+ years of related Meat and Seafood or food manufacturing experience with 2+ years in a leadership role
- PCQI, HACCP Trained, and SQF Practitioner (preferred)
- Experience with Meat (Beef, Pork, Chicken) & Seafood products, State and USDA inspectors, microbiological testing, Fat analysis, and ESHA (Genesis)
- Must be flexible and willing to work the demands of the department which may be subject to evenings, weekends and holidays.
Corporate Summary:
At Shamrock Foods Company, people come first – our associates, our customers, and the families we serve across the nation. A privately-held, family-owned and -operated Forbes 500 company, Shamrock is an innovator in the food industry and has been since being founded in Arizona in 1922.
Our Mission: At Shamrock Foods Company, we live by our founding family’s motto to “treat associates like family and customers like friends.”
Why work for us?
Benefits are a major part of your overall compensation, and we believe offering them at an affordable cost is not only the right thing to do, but it helps keep you and your family healthy. That’s why Shamrock Foods pays for the majority of your health insurance, allowing you to take home more of your paycheck. And it doesn’t stop there - our associates also enjoy additional benefits such as 401(k) Savings Plan, Profit Sharing, Paid Time Off, as well as our incredible growth opportunities, continued education and wellness programs.
Equal Opportunity Employer
At Shamrock Foods Co all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other basis protected by applicable law.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
