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Food
Safety/Quality Coordinator - Co-Manufacturi - Sheboygan
Falls, WI 53085
Johnsonville Sausage
We are committed to providing only the highest-quality
products. As a member of our quality team, you’ll ensure Johnsonville meets
or exceeds all standards set by the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)
of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and other regulatory agencies. Of
course, that’s just for starters. What outside organization could care more
about our quality than we do? Our commitment to quality must be unparalleled.
We treat every Johnsonville product like it will be served at our own family
table.
Johnsonville, LLC
Job Posting
Food Safety/Quality Coordinator – Co-Manufacturing
Position Overview:
The co-manufacturing Food Safety & Quality Coordinator is
responsible for oversight of Johnsonville’s co-man network from a food safety
and quality perspective. In this role you will be a resource, teacher and
mentor to the co-manufacturing network. Your passion for continuous
improvement efforts will enable our partners to meet the goals of making gold
standard products. This role is perfect for an individual who has a track
record of developing members, improving and expanding the scope of their
responsibilities and wants to continue to grow and be challenged.
Responsibilities:
- Work with external partners to
strategically coordinate continuous improvement efforts and programs
related to food safety and quality processes and systems, including
defining performance measures.
- Identify trends and process variation in
conjunction with co-manufacturing team; obtain corrective actions when
needed to optimize the safety and quality of products.
- Work with internal and external partners
to successfully resolve quality concerns involving appearance, taste,
packaging and/or foreign material contamination
- Develop clear and concise process
specifications for co-manufacturers that outline requirements and are
aligned with process capability
- Instill an atmosphere of mutual respect
and trust with manufacturing partners; leverage these relationships in
sharing best practices and learnings while protecting Johnsonville’s
trade secrets
- Monitor and share performance results
with co-manufacturers, taking action if a
co-manufacturer has a track record of failing to meet Johnsonville
Supplier Quality Expectations
- Ensure co-manufacturer plants are up-t-
date and compliant with regulatory issues
- Be an active member of the Johnsonville
FSQ Leadership and Exceptional Products Teams
- Coach the company co-manufacturing
Assistant Coordinator and provide guidance to the Sensory Commercialization
team regarding new product sensory evaluations
- Lead auditor for potential partner
audits, determining capabilities and practices of potential partners.
Initiate correspondence and review submitted corrective actions for
thoroughness and completeness.
- Use your technical expertise to educate
members on food safety and quality applications and systems
- Be the point person regarding any
regulatory action taken on items made for Johnsonville at a
co-manufacturer
- Participate in Innovation Product Reviews
and provide input on new products with regard to quality and food safety
- Coordinate consumer foreign object
complaint investigations with our co-manufacturing partners
- Identify on boarding process and on-going
assessments of co-manufacturers
- Develop future leaders as a pipeline for
future Co-manufacturer food safety and quality roles and/or operational
leadership positions
- Utilize your auditing skills to assist on
supplier and internal audits, minimizing risk.
- Lead capital pipeline planning efforts
for the food safety and quality area, working with impacted
co-manufacturing partners
- Back up for other Food Safety Quality
Coordinator positions
Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Food Science, Meat
Science, Microbiology or related field required
- 5-7 years of experience in a senior
quality leadership role required
- Experience in food required; meat/poultry
processing and harvest preferred
Qualifications:
- Knowledge and understanding of food
safety, HACCP systems, USDA/FDA, Animal Handling and Welfare programs
and regulatory requirements and have established regulatory
relationships
- Ability to effectively interact with
external partners and influence without authority
- Proficiency in Microsoft Suite required
- Understanding of Safe Quality Food
program preferred
- Experience with ready-to-eat (RTE)
product shelf life and microbiology
- Knowledge of continuous improvement
processes (Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, etc.)
- Experience working in SAP Business
Operating System desired
- Proficient with data management and
Statistical Process Control
- Strong analytical and problem-solving
skills
- Project management and team leadership
skills
Date: March 9,
2021
Coach for this position: Director of Food Safety & Quality
Location: Technical Center, Sheboygan Falls, WI
(Our office is about an hour north of Milwaukee)
Member Status: Fulltime, Salaried
(At Johnsonville, you are not an employee. You are a
Member.)
Travel: 20-30%
varies depending on business need
Reason for Posting: Member Retirement
(We will miss her!)
Member Referral: $500.00
About our Company
Since 1945, our family-owned band of sausage-makers has
invented better ways to make, eat and prepare crave-able sausage. Today, we
are 2,000 Members strong. We sell our famous sausage in all 50 United States
and more than 40 countries. We have a culture built on the idea that if we
make developing your talents our top priority, great business results will
follow naturally. We call it The Johnsonville Way. It has been our secret
sauce for decades, and we hope you get to experience it for yourself!
External candidate: Apply on-line only at: http://jobs.johnsonville.com
We value the diversity of our workforce and we embrace the
principles of Equal Opportunity Employment. M/F/Vet/Disability
Johnsonville values the service Veterans and their family
members have given to our country. We support the hiring of returning service
members and military spouses.
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