The ideal candidate will have strong experience in food and dairy quality systems, HACCP, GMPs, and audit readiness and a proven ability to ensure compliant, high-quality finished products that meet customer specifications.
Responsibilities:
- Establish, supervise, administer, and monitor quality assurance programs to ensure policies, procedures, specifications, HACCP, GMPs, BRC, EQMS, and regulatory requirements are implemented.
- Provide quality and food safety support to quality and production departments.
- Assist management teams with the maintenance of quality systems under LQMS.
- Follow up and monitor Product Safety Quality Event corrective actions.
- Prepare and maintain plant audit documents and programs.
- Perform positive release and complete related HACCP record reviews.
- Manage external warehouse inventory and coordinate lot track-and-trace exercises.
- Update SharePoint and support document control program management.
- Assist with lab calibrations and act as backup to the Quality Supervisor to support lab technicians.
- Support creation of quality trainings in partnership with the training specialist.
- Track non-conforming and downgrade product for cheese and manage specification deviations.
- Provide input on whey powder specification updates and manage customer samples for cheese.
- Assist with the Environmental Monitoring Program and manage the GMP audit program.
- Complete other duties as assigned.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- Associate degree or higher, preferably in Food Science, Dairy Science, or a related field.
- Knowledge of HACCP, GMPs, BRC, and quality management systems.
- Auditing skills with corrective and preventive action understanding.
- Effective written and verbal communication, organization, and prioritization abilities.
- Ability to work with minimal supervision and troubleshoot quality issues.
Preferred Skills:
- Bachelor of Science in Food Science, Dairy Science, or a comparable field.
- Strong dairy quality assurance background and knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices.
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