Quality Manager II

Refresco; Missouri; On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Refresco is seeking a Quality Manager II to lead the site quality department and drive product and process quality across facilities. You will ensure GMPs, food safety, and regulatory compliance, manage the quality team, and direct laboratory, sanitation, and QA activities to meet corporate standards.

The role requires developing, implementing, and maintaining robust quality systems including SQF, conducting internal audits, and coordinating with departments on corrective actions and continuous

Responsibilities

• Adhere to health and safety policies, GMPs and PPE requirements.
• Ensure food quality and safety per corporate, customer and governing bodies (e.g. GFSI).
• Directly manage Quality team to achieve KPIs and CI goals, track costs, reduce waste, train staff, maintain morale.
• Manage laboratory, water treatment, syrup blending, sanitation, microbiological equipment, raw materials, and all quality processes.
• Ensure raw materials and finished products meet specifications and regulatory standards (FDA, CFIA, HACCP, GMPs).
• Support third-party food safety and quality certifications; improve quality systems.
• Develop, implement, maintain SQF system and related food safety/quality requirements.
• Oversee daily Quality inspections to ensure compliance.
• Write and update SOPs for the Quality Program.
• Lead internal audit processes and share best practices.
• Understand plant financials and how costs relate to QC and production.
• Plan capital requirements and manage capital projects.
• Develop and maintain Food Safety Fundamentals and Quality Plans and communicate results to staff.
• Ensure food safety and quality documents are stored, maintained and accessible.
• Address non-conformances with corrective actions and timely closures.
• Ensure OSHA and environmental regulatory compliance; investigate root causes of non-compliance.
• Direct and evaluate staff, including hiring and performance management.
• Provide training and guidance on work standards and outcomes.
• Support recruiting and may contribute to pay recommendations.
• Ensure a safe working environment with strategies to reduce accidents and improve energy efficiency.

Job description

Job Description

Make a Difference in YOUR Career!

Our vision is both simple and ambitious: to put our drinks on every table.

We are the leading global independent beverage solutions provider. We serve a broad range of national and international retailers as well as Global, National and Emerging (GNE) brands. Our products are distributed worldwide from our production sites in Europe, North America, and Australia. Although our own branding may not appear on the labels of the beverages we produce, there is a good chance you are reading this while sipping one of our drinks.

Our ambition is to continually improve and it’s what keeps us at the top of our game.We are solutions-based.We are innovative. We seek out new challenges and conquer them. This is our company ethos, but it’s our people’s too:Refresco is at the cutting edge of a fast-moving industry because we have passionate people pushing the boundaries of what’s best.

Stop and think: how wouldYOUput our drinks on every table?

Position Description

Reporting to the Plant Manager, the Quality Manager II oversees the sites quality department with responsibility for total product/package quality, Food Safety/Quality cost management, safety, compliance, GMPs, and executing all Quality protocols to ensure Plant Quality objectives are met.

Essential Job Functions:

• Adhere to and ensure compliance to all health and safety policies/procedures, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) and PPE requirements.
• Adhere to and ensure compliance to food quality and food safety as per the standard(s) provided by corporate, customer, and/or governing bodies (ex. GFSI).
• Directly manage the Quality team to achieve KPIs and CI project goals, while tracking costs, reducing waste, overseeing employee training, and maintaining department morale.
• Responsible for direct management and utilization of laboratory (analytical and microbiology), water treatment, syrup blending, sanitation, microbiological equipment, raw materials, and all quality processes.
• Optimize resources while ensuring raw materials and finished product meet specifications and manufacturing standards and in accordance with FDA, CFIA, GMP's, HACCP, and all other governmental policies, procedures, and regulations.
• Responsible for supporting and maintaining compliance with third-party food safety and quality certification requirements, including the implementation and continual improvement of the facility’s food safety and quality management systems.
• Responsible for the development, implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of the SQF System and ensuring compliance with all relevant food safety and quality requirements.
• Oversee daily Quality inspections to ensure all products are meeting compliance.
• Write, update, and maintain SOP's (Standard Operating Procedures) for the Quality Program.
• Champion internal audit process through continuous improvements, shared best practices, and teamwork.
• Comprehend and utilize the plant financials, fixed and variable costs. Understand how other cost centers affect QC results, how production volume affects all costs, and how to manage variable labor.
• Participate in planning future capital requirements, develop the capital request utilizing the current format and manage capital projects to their successful completion.
• Lead the development, implementation, review, and maintenance of Food Safety Fundamentals, the Food Safety and Quality Plans, and the SQF program, while ensuring effective communication of all relevant information to employees.
• Responsible to ensure that all food safety and food quality documents are safely stored, maintained and accessible.
• Responsible for departmental non-conformances and implementation of corrective action ensuring all corrective actions are documented and outstanding actions closed in timely manner.
• Ensure compliance to all OSHA and environmental regulatory and corporate standards. Investigate and identify root causes of any non-compliance.
• Leads and directs the work of other employees and has responsibility for personnel actions including hiring, performance management, and termination.
• Provides training, direction and instruction and conducts performance evaluations.
• Provides guidance and training on work standards and expected outcomes.
• Accountable for planning and evaluating performance, staff training and development, recruitment and may contribute to pay recommendations.
• Accountable for a safe working environment through the development of strategies focused on accident reduction as well as energy and