Plant Quality Leader

Insight Global; Elgin (SC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a Plant Quality Leader for a grocery manufacturing plant in Elgin, SC. The role leads food safety and product quality programs, conducts audits, supports continuous improvement, and ensures compliance with GMPs, HACCP, HARPC, and SQF requirements.

You will train QA staff, collaborate with production, interact with government inspectors, and drive supplier quality improvements while maintaining records and supporting product development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in food science or related field
• 3+ years quality assurance leadership experience in the manufacturing industry (food/beverage preferred)
• PCQI certification
• Experience defining problems, collecting data, establishing facts and drawing valid conclusions; R&D project participation
• Experience working with cross contamination techniques
• Previous Grocery experience
• SQF certification

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to the plant in areas of food safety and product quality
• Serve as liaison for governmental inspections
• Participate in corporate regulatory compliance inspections and audits
• Audit plant sanitation processes through environmental testing, product testing and inspections
• Assure that GMPs are consistently followed and ensure pest control program compliance
• Support quality initiatives by participating in GMP walkthroughs and in food safety or quality initiatives
• Monitor HACCP, HARPC, SSOPs, allergen programs, formulations, and finished product to meet specs
• Ensure QA staff is trained and resourced
• Annual training of SQF, GMPs and Food Safety Programs
• Maintain accurate records in compliance with Kroger, SQF and gov regulations
• Ensure receiving procedures comply with quality and safety standards
• Investigate consumer comments and coordinate corrective actions with production
• Assist CFT with product development, audits and raw material calculations
• Provide support to production in continuous improvement
• Provide feedback to suppliers to improve relationships and resolve quality issues
• Assist staff management with Safe Quality Food policies and requirements

Skills

QA Leadership

Problem Solving

Cross Contamination

R&D Collaboration

Grocery Experience

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Food Science or related field

PCQI Certification

SQF Certification

Tools

PCQI Certification

SQF Certification

Job description

Job Description

A fortune 100 client in the retail space is seeking a Plant Quality Leader to join the team at their grocery manufacturing plant in Elgin, SC. This resource will be responsible for ensuring quality programs are in compliance, leading audits, improving the plant, and more. Other daily responsibilities include:

• Provide leadership to the plant in areas of food safety and product quality

• Serve as liaison for governmental inspections

• Participate in corporate regulatory compliance inspections and audits

• Audit plant sanitation process through environmental testing, product testing and physical inspections

• Assure that Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) are consistently and effectively followed and ensure pest control program compliance

• Support quality initiatives by participating in routine Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) walkthroughs and participating in or leading any food safety or quality initiatives

• Monitor to ensure that Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP), Hazard Analysis & Risk-based Preventive Controls (HARPC), Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOPs), allergen programs, formulations, & finished product consistently meet specifications

• Assure that Quality Assurance staff is properly trained and resourced

• Ensure thorough and effective annual training of Safe Quality Foods (SQF), Good Manufacturing Practices GMPs and Food Safety Programs

• Assure that record keeping is accurate and meets Kroger, SQF and government regulations

• Ensure receiving procedures for incoming and outgoing ingredients are in compliance with quality and safety standards

• Investigate consumer comments, collaborate with production on resulting action plans

• Assist Corporate Food Technology (CFT) with product development, product audits and calculation of raw materials

• Provide support to production in continuous improvement effort

• Provide feedback to suppliers to improve relationships and resolve quality issues

• Assist the staff management team in all Safe Quality Food policies and requirements

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Skills and Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree food science or a related field

• 3+ years quality assurance leadership experience within the manufacturing industry (food and beverage strongly preferred)

• Preventative Control Qualified Individual certification (PCQI)

• Experience defining problems, collecting data, establishing facts and drawing valid conclusions - Experience participating in R&D projects

• Experience working with cross contamination techniques

• Previous Grocery experience

• Safe Quality Foods (SQF) certification