What are the responsibilities and job description for the QA MANAGER position at Peco Foods?
The QA Manager is responsible for the leadership and guidance of all activities of the FSQA department to include food safety programs, specification adherence, and product quality for products within their assigned division. In addition, the FSQA Manager will oversee all special projects as assigned, departmental budgets, turnover, and safety.
Responsibilities include, but not limited to:
- Responsible for the selection, training, and development of the salaried and hourly FSQA teams. Manage performance through training or application of progressive disciplinary action (when necessary).
- Validation of production practices including raw material receiving requirements; pre-operational and operational sanitation; finished product quality and Food Safety Systems;
- Validating that all customer and Peco FSQA policies and procedures are followed;
- Validating monitoring verification and the associated documentation with adherence to government regulations; developing, implementing and maintaining the HACCP, PCQI, SOP, GMP and SSOP based programs; Maintain communication with in-plant FSIS personnel with regard to plant regulatory compliance.
- Validating that finished product conforms to customer product and label specifications;
- Follow-up on customer product issues and audit results with, plant management, corporate sales, and/or operations; corporate FSQA.
- Coordinating with customers and their agents for product showings, plant tours, and audits; visits to customer facilities; initial product runs and investigation response to quality related customer complaints;
- Monitoring and verifying that microbiological results are being collected as required and any deviations are responded to correctly and expediently.
- Verifying that facility food safety and quality programs are being executed properly through internal auditing.
- Assisting both the Food Safety and Foreign Material teams at facilities as an active participant.
- Completing required internal, regulatory, and customer audits with continued certification approvals.
- Verifying the management of Hold Release inventories at plant level.
- Track FSQA established Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and initiate corrective actions when results are not at or above targets.
- Special projects and other duties as assigned by Corporate FSQA Manager or Director.
Qualifications and Education Requirements
- Education: Knowledge associated with food safety, animal science, natural science or technical field normally acquired through a bachelor’s degree or higher in academic study, or related job experience essential to the job.
- Computer Skills: Standard computer skills required; generating spreadsheets and developing templates for use by plant management and corporate FSQA, sales and operations.
- Communication Skills: Excellent communication skills required, both written and verbal, demonstrating the proven ability to correspond with all levels - line team members to corporate management.
Preferred Skills
- Experience: Minimum 5 years of prior industry experience to fully grasp regulatory, production and manufacturing concepts preferred.
- Experience with FDA and USDA regulated products.
- ERP, Infinity, Safety Chain or other automated food safety and quality data collection systems a plus.
