Overview The Quality & Food Safety Manager is responsible for managing the Quality & Sanitation department. The role has a site-wide impact as the owner of Food Safety Systems. The ideal person has excellent communication and coaching skills and the ability to work cross-functionally with all departments. The role will mainly be on 1st shift but will require leadership across all 3 shifts. Responsibilities - Review all food safety procedures and instructions, to ensure they remain current. - Review requests to change FSMS-related procedures and work instructions and direct the Food Safety Team through such reviews. - Manage the Food Safety Team and ensure that processes needed for the FSMS are established, implemented, and maintained. - Ensure the promotion of awareness of customer requirements pertaining to food safety throughout the organization. - Develop the Company's prerequisite programs and ensure that PRPs are implemented, monitored, and communicated to the appropriate parties, and periodically review PRPs. - Conduct hazard analyses. - Evaluate suppliers'/vendors' food safety systems; monitor and report on supplier food safety performance on an ongoing basis. - Review revisions to manufacturing practices, to ensure potential food safety hazards have been adequately addressed. - Oversee the internal food safety audit program -- select internal audit personnel, review results of food safety audits, ensure that corrective actions are understood, and supervise corrective actions. - Reporting on corrections and corrective actions taken at Management Review meetings. - Collect, analyze, and publish measurement data, to determine the root cause of process and product food safety problems and recommend action to resolve those problems. - Initiate and supervise product defects, to ensure adequate implementation and effectiveness. - Supervise hazard analyses, report results of analyses to top management, and periodically review food safety-related processes to ensure hazards are accounted for and controlled - Develop team to solve day-to-day operational issues & reach performance goals. - Communicate cross-functionally to assist the team to solve operational issues. - Manage all aspects of product quality and food safety for the facility. This is inclusive of product specs, a quality manual, weight control, traceability, in-process and finished product testing and food safety and allergen. Conduct QAS self-inspections and participate in annual QAS audit program. Conduct self-inspection audits ensuring AIB and FSSC 22000 Standards requirements are met. Develop, coordinate and manage plant quality and sanitation programs as assigned. - Provide facility quality training, to include GMP, food safety, Non-GMO and allergen plans, regulatory requirements, and quality measurement systems. - Ensure that full compliance is maintained in all regulatory matters, and serve as the contact point for regulatory affairs at the site level. Compensation and Benefits: - The expected compensation range for this position is between $102,800 - $172,100. - Location, confirmed job-related skills and experience will be considered in setting actual starting salary. - Bonus based on performance and eligibility; target payout is 12% of annual salary paid out annually. - Paid time off is subject to eligibility, including vacation, holiday, sick, bereavement and parentalleave: - Vacation : for eligible full-time employees, a minimum of 15 paid vacation days in accordance with the vacation policy. - Holidays : for eligible full-time employees, the company provides 10 paid holidays annually. - Sick Leave : for eligible full-time employees, 10 days (80 hours) of paid sick leave benefits are available for absences related to non-job related injury. Sick leave benefit will be accrued during your first year at 1 day for each month worked in t