Senior Quality & Food Safety Manager

Keurig Dr Pepper Inc.; Victorville (CA); On-site; USD 131,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation Assistance Eligible

Job summary

Keurig Dr Pepper is hiring a Senior Production Quality Assurance Manager to lead the QA team at the Victorville site, ensuring food safety, GMP compliance and product conformance. You will drive quality, sanitation, and supplier QA programs, while supporting external audits and continuous improvement initiatives.

The role requires strong leadership, extensive QA/QA labs interaction, and the ability to manage audits (FDA, AIB, ISO) and KPIs. Moderate travel not specified.

Qualifications

• Leads and oversees the quality team and audits to ensure food safety and GMP compliance.
• Manages quality, batching and sanitation functions per company standards.
• Supports audits from FDA, AIB, ISO 22001 and other regulators.
• Ensures KPIs for quality and sanitation are tracked and improved.
• Maintains supplier QA and vendor nonconformance processes.

Responsibilities

• Leads and manages the Quality department employees, assuring an effective and strong audit function.
• Directs and manages all quality, batching & sanitation functions within KDP management standards and business processes.
• Assure compliance to Plant, Division, Corporate and regulatory quality assurance requirements in the areas of material inspection, in-process quality control, finished product evaluation, GMPs, housekeeping and other related food safety and quality matters as well as compliance to local, state and federal regulatory agencies.
• Improve Quality Assurance policies and procedures and ensure compliance to division, corporate and regulatory standards.
• Provide support of all internal and external audits (FDA, AIB, FSSC, ISO 22001).
• Track the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) associated with Quality and Sanitation.
• Primary site contact for all raw material and packaging suppliers. Manage the vendor nonconformance process to assure corrective action and contract compliance.
• Maintain proper inventory levels of all materials related to lab operations and ensure proper stock rotation.
• Provides support and guidance for the QA labs and production areas to include training in food safety (GMP, HAACP, allergens, and other topics) and BPO Quality Training.
• Establish, implement, maintain, and update the Quality and Food Safety Management system as well as develop the Food Safety Fundamentals and the Food Safety Plan
• Drive raw material and packaging material yield improvement activities for the plant
• Present FSQMS information for senior management review so that actions for improvement can be determined.
• Have a track record of successful continuous improvement initiatives and results.
• Ensure that the Food Safety team are fully qualified and trained to meet the company requirements.
• Promote an awareness of customer requirements throughout the company.
• Accountable for external communication and liaison regarding the management systems.
• Represent the Quality and Food Safety agenda in the site capital project agenda.
• Retain technical competence in the understanding of manufacturing processes and the compliance requirements of a food/beverage manufacturer.
• Knowledge of Statistical Process Control (SPC) tools and SAP, or a fully integrated manufacturing system.
• Understand and apply moderately complex mathematical concepts, to include managing department financial data and must be able to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions as well as interpret a variety of technical material.
• Strong planning and organizational skills, time management, leadership skills, and analytical skills.

Skills

Quality leadership

Food safety

GMP

Auditing

Process improvement

Statistical Process Control

SAP

Education

Bachelor's degree in Microbiology, Food Science, Quality or Management

Tools

SAP

Job description

Keurig Dr Pepper is hiring a Senior Production Quality Assurance Manager to lead the QA team at the Victorville site, ensuring food safety, GMP compliance and product conformance. You will drive quality, sanitation, and supplier QA programs, while supporting external audits and continuous improvement initiatives.

The role requires strong leadership, extensive QA/QA labs interaction, and the ability to manage audits (FDA, AIB, ISO) and KPIs. Moderate travel not specified.