Plant Food Quality & Safety Lead

Marathon Cheese Corporation; Booneville (MS); Presencial; USD 85 000 - 115 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Marathon Cheese Corporation is seeking a Quality leader to drive food safety and quality performance at the plant, ensuring policies and procedures are effectively developed and managed for ingredients, packaging, sanitation, processing, and finished products.

The role emphasizes guarding quality compliance, leading a team, and applying tools like auditing, trend analysis, SPC, lean six, and CAPA to support Operations and drive continuous improvement across the value chain.

Qualificações

• Masters Degree in Food Science, Dairy Science, Microbiology, Chemistry, Biology or similar scientific discipline, and one to three years of relevant experience; or a Bachelors Degree in a discipline described above, with three to five years of relevant experience.
• Strong knowledge of Food Safety and Food Quality auditing, internal and external
• Preventive controls, including allergen and foreign material controls
• GMPs, sanitary design, pest control
• Federal and state food regulations
• Specifications, including ingredient and packaging, manufacturing and finished goods
• Analytical equipment and methods in processing quality control, microbiology, chemistry, and organoleptic assessments and evaluations; relevant software applications
• Relevant applications of food technologies

Responsabilidades

• Direct and supervise the Quality team in the plant and laboratory.
• Ensure plant compliance with all Quality policies, programs and procedures.
• Manage HACCP and Food Safety Plan development, assessments and validations for new products and processes, including records and file maintenance.
• Ensure compliance of the audit programs for internal and external audits, i.e. FDA, WDATCP, IDA, GFSI/SQF, USDA, NOP, and customers.
• In close cooperation with corporate Quality, liaise with Customer Services and Sales and Marketing on complaint investigation and communication, trending and sustaining resolution.
• Promote Quality awareness and ownership throughout plant operations.
• Drive improvements and monitor Quality metrics/KPIs at the facility.
• Evaluate and assist in developing processes, specifications and critical control points in manufacturing for ongoing Quality Assurance of all finished goods.
• Monitor and assess performance of the quality systems, report its effectiveness to management and implement actions for improvement.
• Develop and execute training programs that support Food Safety and Food Quality objectives.
• Apply administrative and record-keeping processes to support the Quality policies, programs and procedures.
• Manage QA related projects from inception to final reports and implementations.
• Member of Plant Crisis Management Team, e.g. Recall Team
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Marathon Cheese Corporation is seeking a Quality leader to drive food safety and quality performance at the plant, ensuring policies and procedures are effectively developed and managed for ingredients, packaging, sanitation, processing, and finished products.

The role emphasizes guarding quality compliance, leading a team, and applying tools like auditing, trend analysis, SPC, lean six, and CAPA to support Operations and drive continuous improvement across the value chain.