Food Safety/Quality Control Manager

Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley; Town of Wallkill (NY); On-site; USD 72,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) & 401k matching

Dental insurance

Health insurance

Paid time off

Vision insurance

Job summary

Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley seeks a Food Safety/Quality Control Manager in Wallkill, NY. This permanent, full-time role leads our safety and quality program, ensuring regulatory compliance and high product standards.

The position requires SQF/HACCP certification, 2+ years in food industry QA, and strong report-writing and training abilities. Competitive benefits accompany a salary around $80,000 annually.

Qualifications

• Degree in Food Science or allied field with experience in QA and food safety.
• SQF certification and HACCP certification required.
• Proven work experience as food safety plant management.
• Proven track record of developing and implementing gap analysis and food safety program.
• Strong communication of technical concepts to management, employees and vendors.
• Excellent written, communication and analytical skills; able to interpret statistics.
• Experience in Food Industry: 2 years (Required).
• Proficiency in Excel with reporting and pivot tables (5+ years).
• Seafood HACCP a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and audit food safety and quality systems ensuring compliance with FDA local health department and third-party audits.
• Identify training needs, develop modules, and provide trainings to all employees.
• Maintain supplier approval processes and ensure continued compliance.
• Inspect facilities for compliance, address issues, and report to senior management.
• Maintain traceability of product by batch and record all tests/inspections.
• Oversee cleaning processes of equipment and facilities and assess cleaning efficiency.
• Research new techniques or products to improve safety and standards.
• Implement and monitor quality procedures across plants and production lines.
• Review customer feedback and respond to complaints; ensure corrective actions.

Skills

Food safety

Quality assurance

Auditing

Regulatory compliance

Communication

Analytical skills

Statistical analysis

Training

Traceability

GMP

Education

Bachelor's degree in Food Science or related field

Tools

Microsoft Office

Excel

Job description

Job Title

Food Safety/Quality Control Manager

Schedule

Full-Time, Monday- Friday, occasional weekend requirement

Pay

$80,000 year

Job Type

Permanent

Location

Wallkill, NY

Job Description

We are seeking a Food Safety/Quality Control manager position to lead the implementation of our food safety and product quality control strategy throughout company and building strong, structured systems to uphold best practices and standards.

Objective for food safety

Responsible for ensuring that food products meet standards set by the company and regulatory authorities (FDA, SQFI, Fish and Wildlife, etc…). They may develop and review quality and safety policies and manage audits by third-party inspectors. They may train quality assurance employees and oversee manufacturing and production processes.

Objective for quality control

Test product for its intended use and make sure it performs up to the company’s specifications on a daily basis while measuring and improving productivity.

Job Duties

Food Safety and Regulations

• Develop, implement and audit food safety and food quality systems that ensure that the business is compliant at all time with FDA & local health department and third party audit companies.
• Identify training needs, develop training modules and provide trainings to all employees.
• Maintain, develop existing supplier approval processes and ensure continued compliance.
• Meet with other supervisors and inspect facilities for compliance with standards, finding methods to resolve any issues that can arise.
• Prepare reports on food quality/safety status to Senior Management and record of all tests and inspections conducted.
• Maintain solid traceability of product by batch.
• Inspect cleaning process of equipment and facility
• Understand efficiency of cleaning/sanitizing product
• Research all new technics or product that can better improve the current safety food standards of the company’s product.

Quality Control

• Implement and accountable for ensuring that the plants follow and adheres to quality procedure and protocols.
• Review and analyze customer feedback and respond to any complaints.
• Visually inspect and manually test manufactured product from raw, in process and finished by monitoring products before, during and after each phase of production.
• Implementation of Probability sampling procedure/ random process approach that can reflect generalization of production / Probability distribution (Gaussian probability).
• Run and monitor inspection equipment.
• Record and analyze quality data.
• Measure quality of product (nutrition content, recipe, etc...), interpretation of process and analytical data to evaluate quality achievements.
• Accept/reject product.
• Implement negative feedback (back to status) or positive feedback (new state) mechanism in case of product deficiency.

Required Qualifications/Experience

• Degree in Food Science, allied with solid experience in QA and Food safety.
• SQF certification and HACCP certification needed.
• Proven work experience as Food Safety plant management.
• Proven track record of developing and implementing gap analysis and food safety program.
• Ability to effectively and proactively communicate technical and non-technical information to management, employees and vendors.
• Must have excellent written, communication and analytical skills. Must be able to accurately interpret statistical data.
• Food Industry: 2 years (Required).
• Microsoft Office, Strong Excel (5+ Years with Reporting, Pivot Tables, etc.) ?

Seafood HACCP a plus.

Benefits

• 401(k) & 401k matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance