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Food
Safety & Quality Assurance Manager - Chico, CA
AgReserves, Inc.
Summary:
Berberian Nut Company is seeking a detail-oriented Food Safety
& Quality Assurance Manager to join our plant leadership team.
The FSQA Manager has high-level responsibility for food safety, customer
satisfaction, and general company welfare. The FSQA Manager serves as the
site contact for any food safety and quality- related issues. The ideal
candidate has a drive to continuously enhance processes through efficiencies
while keeping the team focused on best-in-class industry standards.
Responsibilities:
- Direct
oversight, implementation, and maintenance of the Food Safety and
Quality systems associated with the plant environment, HACCP and product
specifications.
- Serve on the
internal auditing team and is a site resource for internal auditing
expertise. Host all 3 rd party inspections.
- Coordinate and
conduct all food safety and QA related meetings, exercises, and
trainings.
- Oversight of
root cause investigations for any food safety and/or quality-related
issues.
- Close out,
verify, and report all corrective actions arising from food
safety/quality-related incidences.
- Analyze food
safety and quality-related data to identify positive and negative trends
that can drive process improvement and increase efficiencies and that
serve as validation of our systems according to the BRC Standard.
- Provide
feedback and collaborate with plant management to approve all customer
specifications provided to the sales/marketing team prior to
specification input into CHIPS.
- Review and
respond to customer complaints and provide investigation reports, as
appropriate, creating action items for any non-conformances found within
established timeframes.
- Review the
efficacy of customer specification and customer complaint programs on an
annual basis.
- Oversee of
quality control, quality assurance and sanitation function in the plant
environment.
- Recommend
improvements on a continuous basis based on visual and data-driven
assessments.
- Communicate sanitation,
food safety, and/or product quality issues to upper management,
production team, sales/shipping crew, and other relevant teams.
- Lead the QA
and Sanitation Supervisors in maintaining a safe, clean and functional
work environment for themselves and for their employees. Support in
replacing and purchasing equipment and tools as needed.
- Report food
safety, quality and sanitation metrics in daily and weekly site
meetings.
- Work directly
with the processing and/or shipping departments to ensure that all
safety and food safety issues are being investigated thoroughly.
- Create team
developmental and improvement goals. Provide support to technicians and
supervisors regarding HR-related situations.
- Champion a
world-class safety culture.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's
degree in food science, chemistry, biology, data science, or related
field.
- 5+ years
progressive experience managing food processing and/or quality systems
in food industry.
- 3+ years
management experience leading a diverse workforce.
- Nut-processing
or ag-based business experience a plus.
- Strong
demonstrated problem-solving, organizational, communication, leadership,
and interpersonal skills.
- Computer
competency and ability to create Excel reports; basic understanding of
statistical process control, trend analysis, and data analytics.
- Knowledge of
health, safety, and environmental regulations such as OSHA.
- Knowledge of
food safety/quality and laboratory systems, including HACCP, GFSI and
ISO-17025.
- Solid
understanding of supply chain, supplier management, and lean
manufacturing principles/processes and safety regulations in a
manufacturing setting.
- Ability to
meet the physical requirements of the role including lifting and moving
up to 50lbs.
- Valid in-state
driver’s license.
- Ability to
pass a criminal background check and to obtain the necessary fumigation
license within one year of employment.
- Bilingual Spanish
highly desired.
- Ability to
work flexible schedule, including on-call availability, afterhours and
weekends, per company needs.
AgReserves, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and
applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any
type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin,
disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation,
gender, identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal,
state or local laws. Qualified applicants must be legally and lawfully
authorized to be employed and work in the United States without current or
future visa sponsorship - AgReserves, Inc is not
sponsoring visas at this time.
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