Quality Assurance Manager

The Quality Assurance & Food Safety Manager is responsible for leading all food safety, quality assurance, and regulatory compliance programs at a beef slaughter facility. This role ensures that all products are produced in accordance with USDA-FSIS regulations, customer specifications, and industry best practices.

Requirements

• Update, maintain, and implement pertinent regulatory documents, programs and records, and quality assurance files.
• Serve as a liaison to government agencies, audits, and USDA inspectors.
• Communicate and work with customers, suppliers and third-party auditors.
• Enforce and monitor quality, food safety and GFSI programs.
• Implement and lead a robust animal welfare program.
• Work with plant management and customers to successfully resolve customer concerns involving food safety and/or quality.
• Confer with management, customers, and other representatives in the planning, scheduling, coordinating, and enforcing the quality assurance/food safety programs.
• Analyze and interpret food safety data.
• Provide leadership for the Quality Assurance department.
• Participate in third-party, customer, and regulatory audits, ensuring readiness at all times.
• Oversee QA team staffing, scheduling, training, development, and performance.
• Partner cross-functionally with Operations, Maintenance, Procurement, HR, and Safety to ensure full facility compliance.
• Periodically review all HACCP, SSOP, pre-requisite programs to assure regulatory compliance and identify trends and process variations.

Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package for you and your family.
• Excellent benefit plan.
• Health and Wellness Clinic
• Health
• Dental
• Vision
• Life Insurance
• Flex Spending Accounts
• Voluntary Benefits
• PTO
• 401k
• Short Term Disability
• Employer Assisted Home Purchase Program
• Discount Meat Purchase Program