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Manager Plant Quality – ConAgra - Grand Rapids, MI
EMPLOYER: ConAgra
JOB ID: 22246BR
LOCATION: USA - Michigan Grand Rapids, 49512
Manager
Plant Quality - Grand Rapids, MI
ConAgra Foods, Inc. is one of North
America's leading food companies, with brands in 97 percent of America's
households. Consumers find Banquet, Chef Boyardee, Egg Beaters, Healthy
Choice, Hebrew National, Hunt's, Marie Callender's,
Orville Redenbacher's, PAM, Peter Pan, Reddi-wip,
Slim Jim, Snack Pack and many other ConAgra Foods brands in grocery,
convenience, mass merchandise and club stores. ConAgra Foods also has a
strong business-to-business presence, supplying frozen potato and sweet
potato products as well as other vegetable, spice and grain products to a
variety of well-known restaurants, foodservice operators and commercial customers.
As a Fortune 500 company with more than 24,000 employees across the country
and around the world, the opportunities are vast. For more information,
please visit us at www.conagrafoodscareers.com.
DESCRIPTION:
Ensures
food safety and quality of all products produced. Responsible for ensuring
specifications are defined and communicated, formalizing process capability,
institutionalizing process control and predictive quality process. Performs
inspections of processes, employee training, compliance with applicable food
laws and regulations and verifies plant HACCP plans. Defines best lab
practices and provides guidance and adherence to quality policies. Actively
participates in resolving customer complaints. Integral part of plant
leadership team. Provides support to Sales, R&D and Operations on
customer issues, questions and concerns. SCOPE: Large operations. 7 years
related experience.
QUALIFICATIONS:
•A legal
responsibility to ensure that ConAgra Grand Rapids complies with all Federal
and State regulations associated with food safety and product consistency
•A systems responsibility whereby the Quality Department will provide the
primary leadership for the development and management of a strong food safety
and total quality system focused on establishing product standards, assuring
conformity with these standards, implementing processes and procedures to
prevent defects and non conformities and continual
improvement of all processes and systems related to the production of safe
quality foods
•A technical responsibility whereby the Quality Department will provide for
the major operating controls and reviews of our Food Safety and Quality
Programs
•Development, implementation, review and maintenance of the SQF 2000 system.
In order to carry out these responsibilities, the Plant Quality Assurance
Manager in collaboration with the Plant Manager and the VP R&D has
authority to take appropriate action to:
•Ensure that the policies and procedures outlined in the Quality Manual are
suitable to our business needs and are effectively maintained and
consistently applied
•Evaluate and report to the Plant and Platform Quality Management team on the
effectiveness and implementation of our Food Safety and Quality Programs
•Identify and evaluate food safety and quality issues and recommend solutions
•Ensure that our nonconformance control procedures conform to our Food Safety
and Quality Program requirements
•Evaluate, verify and report the implementation of corrective and preventive
action
•Ensure
orientation and training is performed for personnel performing food safety
and quality-related activities. In carrying out this responsibility, this
position, in collaboration with other members of the Plant and Platform
Quality Management Team will:
•Implement, maintain and ensure the integrity of our Food Safety and Quality
Program
•Distribute and control our Food Safety and Quality Manuals
•Organize and conduct internal quality audits
•Monitor the adequacy of Food Safety and quality plans, including the EMP,
•Collect quality related data for analysis and reporting
•Assisting in verifying and investigating non-conformances
•Verify the completion, implementation and adequacy of corrective and/or
preventative actions taken including root cause analysis
•Approve all raw non conforming materials
(ingredients and packaging) used in production and release all finished goods
for Shipping to Customers.
•Serve as a Technical Resource to review and make judgment on all variance
requests and requests to ship non- conforming products
•Research and purchase equipment/instruments to increase the Quality
Department's capabilities to meet customer, regulatory agency and department
requirements
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE/SKILLS:
•BS Degree
required in Biology, Microbiology, Chemistry, Food Science or other related
field
•Five years experience in QA/QC Management in a
food-manufacturing environment required
•Three years experience managing a team required
•TPM/Lean manufacturing experience required
•SAP experience preferred
•Thorough knowledge of laboratory activities to include microbiological
testing not limited to SPC, Coliforms/E.coli,
Salmonella, Listeria, Yeast and Mold, and analytical testing
•Good verbal and written communication skills
•Ability to work in a team environment
•Ability to train and teach others
•Excellent Knowledge of Food Manufacturing Systems
•Solid Understanding of Food Safety
•Experience with Government Regulatory (USDA and canning) requirements in
food processing •Knowledge in the development and implementation of the
following programs:
1. HACCP
2. Sanitary Design
3. Good Manufacturing Practices
4. Statistical Process Control
5. Pest Control
6. Food Microbiology and Chemistry
7. FDA, USDA and PMO Regulatory
requirements
8. NCIMS Standards
9. NFPA-SAFE Audit Standards
10. SQF
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