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Quality
Assurance Manager - Mason City, IA 50401
Land O’Lakes, Inc.
Join boundless thinkers from all walks of life working together to
feed the world. Take pride in working with powerful brands, including Purina
Animal Nutrition, Nutra Blend, WinField United,
Vermont Creamery, KozyShack, and more.
You'll join a global team committed to everything from the seeds that go into
the ground, to the technology that improves crop yields and sustainability,
to the nutrition that animals need, to marketing the final product.
Quality Assurance Manager
As
QA Manager, you will have the opportunity to be the lead in managing,
enforcing, and implementing all our quality programs within a unique plant
that manufactures both premixes and finished feeds primarily for the
livestock industry.
You
will be responsible for ensuring safe animal feed is produced in a
manufacturing environment that blends highly concentrated vitamin, trace
mineral and medicated products as well as feeds containing lower
concentrations of these same constituents. You will report directly to the
Sr. QA Manager, who is located off-site.
Our
QA practices are housed in our EQMS (Enterprise Quality Management System).
Following these practices, you will be able to implement new policies as
regulations change as well as maintain existing practices.
You
will also interact with the production staff, providing coaching and training
on quality standards, HACCP, and other regulatory initiatives. You will also
lead continuous improvement projects and provide root cause analysis and
corrective actions to resolve issues. You will impact all aspects of daily
quality, product safety, and regulatory compliance and will manage a 1 to
3-member team
To
ensure product safety and quality systems implementation, training,
assessment, and compliance.
The
following is more specific detail of the position:
- Lead the facility Quality Incident
Management Team by conducting root cause and corrective/preventive
action analysis of customer complaints and internal issues related to
manufacturing errors.
- Creating, updating, and implementing
standard operating procedures (SOPs).
- Proactively manage and resolve product
safety and regulatory issues in collaboration with the corporate quality
team.
- Provide targeted follow-up on claims and
complaints.
- Developing and overseeing internal and/or
regulatory compliance of the sampling and testing program for raw
materials, medicated and non-medicated finished goods to ensure product
specifications are met.
- Develop and lead the Management of Change
(MOC) process for the facility.
- Develop a working knowledge of premix and
finished feed quality control, systems, processes, and procedures as
related to plant manufacturing.
- Act as a champion for product
safety/quality; monitor and repost on trends alerting the Director and/or
Sr. Quality Mgr.
- Train, implement, and enforce
customer-specific quality requirements – primarily relating, but not
limited to, toll milling contracts.
- Lead assigned projects in critical
process monitoring and capability; working with operations across the
enterprise to establish new product/process measurements and preventive
control at the source.
- Tracks and drives quality related issues
to completion.
- Completes internal
audits/self-assessments and works with the Director and/or Sr. Quality
Mgr. to resolve issues.
- Quality point of contact for regulatory
and/or customer audits.
- Ensure product safety and quality systems
implementation, training, assessment, and compliance.
- Lead the facility Quality Incident
Management Team by conducting root cause and corrective/preventive
action analysis of customer complaints and internal issues related to
manufacturing errors.
Education
and Experience Requirements:
Bachelors degree and 3+ years
experience in quality in a food or feed or comparable environment
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