Plant Quality Manager

Job Description

Plant Quality Manager

PURPOSE OF POSITION:

The Regional Plant Quality Assurance Manager leads a team of individuals to ensure effective quality execution, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement. They will provide leadership across facilities to drive positive change using a servant style leadership that values and cares for Anchor employees. Must be a collaborative leader who can partner with plant operations to build, enhance and maintain an effective culture of Food Safety and Quality. This individual must be a curious and holistic thinker who loves solving problems, optimizing, mentoring and tackling new challenges.

Quality and Food Safety

Responsible for implementation, improvement, and effectiveness of the Food Safety and Quality Plans at Anchor owned facilities

Ensure daily plant quality and food safety operations follow Anchor’s policies, procedures, customer requirements, and local, state, and federal regulations

Maintain plant preparedness for customer and regulatory visits

Maintain plant policies, procedures, and practices to enhance compliance and efficiency

Manage the facility’s change control program to enable robust risk assessment and decisions

Own the plant continuous improvement functions utilizing data/information to ensure holistic management of quality and food safety issues

Monitor plant sanitation practices to ensure compliance.

Ensure plant compliance to all local, state, and federal requirements

Interface with government representatives and forge strong working relationships

Ensure the plant pest control programs are current, followed, and enable proactive maintenance

Collaboratively lead investigations relating to non-conforming events driving to root cause(s) and effective resolution

Utilize data and trends to proactively address quality and food safety concerns

Overall responsibility for all qualitative, analytical and micro activities performed at the facility

Ensure GLPS are utilized to ensure a high performing on-site laboratory

Perform data analysis to identify critical trends or find leading indicators to enable proactive decisions

Leadership

Champion continuous improvement initiatives through data analysis, trend identification, and the implementation of innovative solutions

Provide visible leadership by participating in walkthroughs, internal audits and managing on site lab and staffing

Provide training to the plant and lab personnel concerning food safety, FSMA and regulatory compliance

Provide quality leadership during unplanned events or emergencies

Partner with Operations and Corporate Quality to build an effective food safety culture

Foster a positive and effective work culture with direct reports

Identify and retain highly effective personnel through proper selection, training, and expectations

Participate in the annual plant budgeting process

Partner with the plant managers on identifying key capital projects that quality initiatives

Engage and interact with all personnel on a regular basis assisting them with their challenges and questions concerning process optimization, quality and food safety

Partner in with sales and operations to implement customer centric changes such as new products or process improvements

Serve as the point of contact for customer related issues, complaints, or inquiries

Utilize data and trending to drive improvements in the customer experience

Minimum Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in a technical field (ideally Food Science or Biological Science) or experience commensurate to the position demonstrating sufficient technical knowledge

Experience implementing or managing GFSI based quality programs. SQF preferred

8 years of experience in food processing environment

5 years of supervisory experience

Certification and/or Licenses

HACCP certification

PQCI certification

Prefer SQF Practitioner

Knowledge of 21 CFR Part 117

Knowledge of USDA regulations and functions

Knowledge of both laboratory and plant GMPs

Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite

Knowledge of basic ERP system functions and utilization

Must be able to read, write, and speak English

Must be able to travel as position requires traveling between plants for at least a week out of every month

WORK ENVIRONMENT & PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The work environmental characteristics and physical demands described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This job operates within both a professional office environment as well as ingredient processing facilities.

While performing the duties of this job within the processing facilities, the employee will be exposed to machinery and moving parts. The employee may be exposed to adverse weather conditions, high precarious places and confined spaces, & airborne particles including grain dust and hazardous materials or fumes, which may require the use of PPE. The noise level in some of the work environments may require the use of hearing protection. While performing the duties of this job inside the office, the employee is frequently exposed to normal working conditions for an office environment with a noise level that is usually quiet to moderate.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee may be required to stand for long periods of time as well as use hands or fingers to reach or handle, and to reach with hands and arms. The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee will occasionally lift and/or move up to 40 pounds. All vision abilities are required to encompass close-up work. On occasion, an employee must be able to tolerate and endure extended seasonal hours and maintain alertness to meet deadlines.

ABOUT THE COMPANY:

Headquartered in Fargo, ND, Anchor Ingredients is the most customer-centric, innovative and transparent farm-to-food partner, dedicated to delivering premium ingredients and added value services to the food and pet food industries. Our farm-level relationships, combined with our global reach, allow us to efficiently procure and process ingredients from around the region and throughout the world, uniquely positioning us to fulfill our customers' diverse ingredient requirements. We take pride in our world-class team which boasts extensive industry experience combined with an unwavering dedication to our company’s mission, vision and values, and a commitment to delivering quality and innovation throughout the entire food supply chain.

Disclaimer:

This job description is not a complete description of responsibility, but reflects the general qualifications, duties and/or responsibilities necessary to perform this position. Anchor Ingredients reserves the right to revise the job description as circumstances warrant. All candidates who receive a written offer of employment will be required to successfully pass a background check, as well as testing for commonly abused controlled substances in accordance with the company’s Drug Free Workplace Policy. Anchor Ingredients is an at-will employer, which means that either the employee or the company may terminate the relationship at any time, with or without notice, and with or without cause. We are an equal opportunity employer.

Full-time