What are the responsibilities and job description for the Vice President of Quality position at Judge Direct Placement?
About the job
In this role, you will oversee the Grand Forks plant quality department, ensuring the overall, long-term success of the organization. You will deliver the value promises to the customer and consumer by ensuring conformity in product, processes and behaviors.
In this role, you will be responsible for:
- Ensuring adherence to plant standards (including but not limited to GMP, AIB, FDA, IWS, Quality, Safety, Finance, ISO, CODES, Daily Direction Setting, Driving OE).
- Ensuring Food Safety & Conformity of all products delivered to market, consistently with the plant's overall safety, quality, cost, delivery, mobilization, and nature scorecard specifications.
- Ensuring full compliance with finished product Quality & Food Safety Sampling / Control / Monitoring plan.
- Manage Plant Laboratory ensuring maintenance of service to production, analytical expertise, equipment maintenance, and analyst training.
- Drive the culture of quality at the plant level - support KPI tracking and improvement.
- Act as primary point of contact for quality at plant level: ensure quality voice presence for all matters within the plant.
- Communicate and assure the execution of QFS policies including the escalation and communication of issues and results in a timely manner.
- Manage and animate all certifications systems, including but not limited to GFSI/FSSC 22000.
- Organize trainings & coach plant teams for daily quality management, particularly First Line Managers.
- Develop the Quality team and promote mobility and cross-functionally.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in food science, microbiology, or related field with a minimum of 10 years of quality experience within a food or beverage manufacturing environment, required.
- Prior experience in the dairy or food industry is desired.
- Possess highly developed communication, leadership, interpersonal, and project management skills.
- Demonstrated ability to influence key decision makers at all levels with organizational sensitivity.
- Technical expertise in finding root cause of quality issues and implementing best solution possible.
- Knowledge of local, state, and federal quality regulations is desired.
