Job Description

Now HIring a Regional Quality Control Manager in Irving, TX.

Shift: TBD

Pay: $75K

Benefits: Medical, Dental, AD &D, Merit, Discretionary Bonus

Job Purpose: The Regional Quality Assurance Manager will help develop, organize and

supervise applications of the comprehensive quality and food safety programs. Will also formulate quality policies, programs and provide guidance and feedback to all company Kitchen operations. These programs will be designed to meet operational plans, customer expectations and regulatory governances. Will be required to conduct scheduled, unannounced, and internal inspections, audits and peer reviews at other DC and Kitchen operations. The Regional QA Manager is an added duty to a selected QA manager.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

-Provide ongoing guidance, supervision, and vision to support comprehensive quality and food

safety programs for company Kitchen; ensuring continuity of business according to client customer and regulatory expectations at all locations.

-Communicate quality assurance related information with customers and other external contacts, including government regulators at their specific location.

-Supervise QA supervisors, kitchen and warehouse team of quality control technician(s) at their specific location.

-Provide for the introduction and daily application of the quality policy in the plant to satisfy the

rules that apply with respect to HACCP and food safety.

-Assure all company Warehouse and Manufacturing locations meet:

o Customer and SQF Audit Protocol through desk auditing and onsite inspections

o Food Defense Audit Protocol

o HACCP Protocol

o Customer Vendor GMP and Food Safety Requirements

o Vendor Environmental Testing Requirements

o Conduct timely Rapid method analyses for Vendor Product Specification Information

o Regulatory- FDA, USDA, State, County, City Health Department requirements

- Introduce, monitor and update (as warranted) quality and food safety programs in conjunction with other departments to meet company and regulatory objectives such as FDA and State. This includes, but is not limited to: quality control testing framework, microbiological testing framework, HACCP, food safety and defense procedures, pesticide

- residue control framework, GMP’s, pest management and housekeeping/sanitation practices.

-Lead local warehouse and kitchen HACCP, Food Safety and Food Defense Teams.

-Assist in determining, in conjunction with other department managers, disposition of failed or over aged inventory.

-Monitor performance of quality control systems to ensure effectiveness and efficiency.

-Oversee microbiological program and environmental program including issue investigation and follow-up.

-Plan and perform bi-annual mock recalls. Follow-up and resolve any resulting issues.

-Analyze quality control test results and communicate quality control information to all relevant organizational departments, outside vendors, or contractors.

-Complete and return customer questionnaires. Organize and maintain vendor documents.

-Direct the tracking of defects, test results, or other regularly reported quality control data.

-Identify critical control points in the manufacturing process and specify sampling procedures to be used at these points.

-Oversee the production reports regarding nonconformance of products or processes, daily production quality, root cause analyses, or quality trends.

-Increase awareness and evaluation of GMP

-Follow all food Safety Requirements' and Good Manufacturing Practices as applicable to this position

-Ensure that safety rules, production, and sanitation standards are met.

-Assist and maintain high quality of service by enforcing company policies and procedures.

-Assigns duties to employees and schedules break periods, work hours, and vacations. Schedules and performs periodic evaluations of employees as dictated by the appropriate HR

policies.

-Assist other warehouse floor supervisors and associates in warehouse policies, departmental procedures, and job duties.

Skills and Abilities

-Excellent communication skills and the ability to be a self-initiator who can implement and supervise all warehouse data entry programs as directed by the Office Manager.

-Some college level training is preferred but not necessary so long as there is experience in warehouse supervision and some experience in the wholesale industry preferred.

-Strong computer skills required; with knowledge in MS Office, Excel and WMS syste literacy

-High level of computer and WMS/Gold system literacy.

-Must be able to interact with all levels of management and have excellent written and verbal communication skills. Must be able to manage and lead a diverse workforce.

Education and/or Experience:

- HACCP Certification

-Food Defense Certification

-SQF Practitioner

-Some college level management education and/or 2 years warehouse supervising in wholesale industry

Work Environment and Physical Requirements:

The work environment and physical demands described here are representative of those that 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.

- Must be able to lift up to 25 pounds at a time.

- Must be able to work standing up or sitting down for long periods of time.

-Must be able to traverse and access all areas of a warehouse environment.

- Must be able to work in a distribution center environment with a variation of temperatures.

- Ability to safely work around/with heavy moving equipment (forklifts, pallet jacks, reach trucks, clamps, scissor lifts) in a high paced environment.

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