Director of Quality Assurance for Feed Mills
for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, application instructions. Also remove "Why Work for Pilgrim’s?" maybe part of Benefits? Actually they have Benefits list after that. We'll extract sections. Let's parse the description. Title: Director of Quality Assurance - Feed Mills (1 opening) First paragraph: At Pilgrim’s, Safety Is A Condition... location requirement. Summary/Objective: The Director of Quality Assurance plans and directs activities concerned with the maintenance of established Pilgrim’s programs including the Animal Food Safety Program, USDA and 3rd party certification and regulatory programs. The Director of Quality Assurance also supports the Technical Services Division with additional activities as deemed necessary. Essential Functions: then sub-sections: Animal Food Safety, Process Verification Programs, Regulatory Compliance, Additional Responsibility. Then Position Type/Expected Hours of Work: full-time, hours determined by needs, travel up to 30 weeks per year, work requires visiting feed mills, hatcheries, grow-out and processing facilities. Required Education And Experience: Work related experience in QA, Food Safety, FDA and USDA regulation is preferred. Work related experience in QA methods and 3rd party certification programs for is required. A degree in Poultry Science or a food safety related field is preferred. Why Work for Pilgrim’s? Benefits: Vision, Medical, and Dental coverage begin after 60 days of employment; Paid Time Off: sick leave, vacation, and 6 company observed holidays; 401(k): company match begins after the first year of service and follows the company vesting schedule; Base Salary range of $108,714.00 - $132,086.70 Incentive Pay: This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s annual bonus plan; the amount of bonus varies and is subject to the standard terms and conditions of the incentive program; and Career Development: Our company is dedicated to supporting professional growth by offering continuous learning opportunities and a focus on career growth through various learning and development programs; Better Futures The Company is dedicated to ensuring a safe and secure environment for our team members and visitors. To assist in achieving that goal, we conduct drug, alcohol, and background checks for all new team members post-offer and prior to the start of employment. The Immigration Reform and Control Act requires that verification of employment eligibility be documented for all new employees by the end of the third day of work. About us: Pilgrim’s is a leading global food company... etc. Our vision: ... Our core values are: Availability, Determination, Discipline, Humility, Ownership, Simplicity, Sincerity EOE, including disability/vets Unsolicited Assistance: ... (legal boilerplate). We need to remove boilerplate: EOE, Unsolicited Assistance, etc. Also remove "About us", "Our vision", "Our core values" maybe considered boilerplate? The instruction: Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The "About us" and vision/core values might be considered company description, not necessarily boilerplate but could be considered extra. However they said preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. The "About us" etc is substantive about company. Might be okay to keep? But they said only include sections when posting has real specific content for it. The "About us" is not a standard heading like About the role, Responsibilities, etc. We could incorporate that into a short paragraph maybe under "About the role"? But they said do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it) and do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. They didn't forbid adding extra sections like "About the company". However they only listed allowed headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we should only use those headings. So we need to map content to those sections. Thus: - About the role: summary/objective + location requirement maybe. - Responsibilities: essential functions (Animal Food Safety, Process Verification Programs, Regulatory Compliance, Additional Responsibility). - Requirements: maybe Position Type/Expected Hours of Work? Or maybe that's Schedule? Actually Position Type/Expected Hours of Work could go under Schedule (hours, travel). But they said include Schedule section only if posting actually states them. It does state hours of work and travel. So we can put Schedule. - Requirements: maybe Required Education And Experience. - Qualifications: maybe same as Requirements? Could separate but we might combine. However we need to avoid thin sections. Could put Requirements and Qualifications together? But they are separate headings allowed. We could put education/experience under Requirements, and maybe certifications under Qualifications? But the posting doesn't separate. Might be better to have Requirements (education/experience) and Qualifications (maybe none). But we should not create empty sections. So we could omit Qualifications if no specific content distinct from Requirements. Similarly Skills maybe not explicitly listed; we could infer from responsibilities but better not to invent. So we omit Skills. - Benefits: we have benefits list. - Pay: base salary range and incentive pay. - Schedule: position type/hours, travel. Thus we will have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must not include sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We have concrete info. Now we need to format using
for each section heading. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose.
We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep details like location requirement, safety statement, etc.
Let's extract content.
About the role:
- At Pilgrim’s, Safety Is A Condition, which means the safety of our team members comes first - always.
- The selected candidate will need to be located at or within an hour of any of the Pilgrim’s complexes for support purposes. This is NOT a remote position!
- Summary/Objective: The Director of Quality Assurance plans and directs activities concerned with the maintenance of established Pilgrim’s programs including the Animal Food Safety Program, USDA and 3rd party certification and regulatory programs. The Director of Quality Assurance also supports the Technical Services Division with additional activities as deemed necessary.
We could combine into a paragraph.
Responsibilities: list essential functions.
Essential Functions broken into:
Animal Food Safety:
- Manage each facility’s Animal Food Safety Plan ensuring regulatory requirements are achieved.
- Assist the mill managers in education, implementation and program compliance in addition to record keeping and overseeing internal audits of processes and procedures at specified intervals.
- Enforce Pilgrim’s standards and methods for inspection, testing, and evaluation based on the prescribed requirements of the Animal Food Safety Plan, Quality Assurance Manual and utilizing 6S principles.
- Maintain Pilgrim’s Supplier Verification Program to satisfy the requirements of the Food Safety Modernization Act. Assist the mill managers in education, implementation and program compliance.
- Conduct routine on-site audits of each feed manufacturing facility to ensure compliance with all applicable regulatory requirements, customer required certifications and company prescribed standards.
Process Verification Programs:
- Develop, implement and maintain 3rd party audit-ready programs for complexes with value-added product claims.
- Conduct on-site audits of PVP certified complexes to ensure the integrity of the certified product claims are achieved.
- Attend certification audits to ensure audit deficiencies and corrective actions are completed at the complex level.
- Supports the complex, customers and suppliers to ensure the integrity of all processes related to the customer programs.
Regulatory Compliance:
- Assists the Feed Mill Managers in maintaining FDA and other agency requirements.
- Maintains an understanding of pertinent regulatory changes and informs both Senior Management and Feed Mill Management of changes to requirements.
Additional Responsibility:
- Manage the Plantraks regulatory dashboard
- Support the feed mills with FDSA, FMIM and SAP
We need to preserve all these bullet points.
Requirements: Required Education And Experience:
- Work related experience in Quality Assurance, Food Safety, FDA and USDA regulation is preferred.
- Work related experience in Quality Assurance methods and 3rd party certification programs for is required. (Note: grammar odd but keep as is.)
- A degree in Poultry Science or a food safety related field is preferred.
We could also include maybe "Position Type/Expected Hours of Work" but that's Schedule.
Benefits:
- Vision, Medical, and Dental coverage begin after 60 days of employment
- Paid Time Off: sick leave, vacation, and 6 company observed holidays
- 401(k): company match begins after the first year of service and follows the company vesting schedule
- Base Salary range of $108,714.00 - $132,086.70 (but that's Pay, not Benefits)
- Incentive Pay: This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s annual bonus plan; the amount of bonus varies and is subject to the standard terms and conditions of the incentive program
- Career Development: Our company is dedicated to supporting professional growth by offering continuous learning opportunities and a focus on career growth through various learning and development programs
- Better Futures: The Company is dedicated to ensuring a safe and secure environment for our team members and visitors. To assist in achieving that goal, we conduct drug, alcohol, and background checks for all new team members post-offer and prior to the start of employment. The Immigration Reform and Control Act requires that verification of employment eligibility be documented for all new employees by the end of the third day of work.
But note: Better Futures and drug/background checks maybe not a benefit but could be considered part of Benefits? The posting lumps them under "Why Work for Pilgrim’s?" after Benefits list. We could keep them under Benefits as they are part of why work there. However the instruction: include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text. The drug/background check is specific content. So we can include.
But we also have Pay section separate for base salary and incentive pay. So we should move base salary and incentive pay to Pay section. Benefits section should include Vision/Medical/Dental, PTO, 401(k), Career Development, Better Futures (drug/background checks). However the Better Futures paragraph includes drug/background checks and immigration verification; that's more about hiring process but still part of why work there. We'll keep.
Pay:
- Base Salary range of $108,714.00 - $132,086.70
- Incentive Pay: This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s annual bonus plan; the amount of bonus varies and is subject to the standard terms and conditions of the incentive program
Schedule:
- This is a full-time position, and hours of work and days are determined by the needs of the facilities.
- This job will require travel up-to 30 weeks per year and work requires visiting feed mills, hatcheries, grow-out and processing facilities.
We could also mention location requirement? Already in About the role.
Now we need to output HTML fragment only, no /, no markdown fences.
We'll produce something like:
About the role
At Pilgrim’s, Safety Is A Condition, which means the safety of our team members comes first - always. The selected candidate will need to be located at or within an hour of any of the Pilgrim’s complexes for support purposes. This is NOT a remote position! The Director of Quality Assurance plans and directs activities concerned with the maintenance of established Pilgrim’s programs including the Animal Food Safety
for prose. We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep details like location requirement, safety statement, etc. Let's extract content. About the role: - At Pilgrim’s, Safety Is A Condition, which means the safety of our team members comes first - always. - The selected candidate will need to be located at or within an hour of any of the Pilgrim’s complexes for support purposes. This is NOT a remote position! - Summary/Objective: The Director of Quality Assurance plans and directs activities concerned with the maintenance of established Pilgrim’s programs including the Animal Food Safety Program, USDA and 3rd party certification and regulatory programs. The Director of Quality Assurance also supports the Technical Services Division with additional activities as deemed necessary. We could combine into a paragraph. Responsibilities: list essential functions. Essential Functions broken into: Animal Food Safety: - Manage each facility’s Animal Food Safety Plan ensuring regulatory requirements are achieved. - Assist the mill managers in education, implementation and program compliance in addition to record keeping and overseeing internal audits of processes and procedures at specified intervals. - Enforce Pilgrim’s standards and methods for inspection, testing, and evaluation based on the prescribed requirements of the Animal Food Safety Plan, Quality Assurance Manual and utilizing 6S principles. - Maintain Pilgrim’s Supplier Verification Program to satisfy the requirements of the Food Safety Modernization Act. Assist the mill managers in education, implementation and program compliance. - Conduct routine on-site audits of each feed manufacturing facility to ensure compliance with all applicable regulatory requirements, customer required certifications and company prescribed standards. Process Verification Programs: - Develop, implement and maintain 3rd party audit-ready programs for complexes with value-added product claims. - Conduct on-site audits of PVP certified complexes to ensure the integrity of the certified product claims are achieved. - Attend certification audits to ensure audit deficiencies and corrective actions are completed at the complex level. - Supports the complex, customers and suppliers to ensure the integrity of all processes related to the customer programs. Regulatory Compliance: - Assists the Feed Mill Managers in maintaining FDA and other agency requirements. - Maintains an understanding of pertinent regulatory changes and informs both Senior Management and Feed Mill Management of changes to requirements. Additional Responsibility: - Manage the Plantraks regulatory dashboard - Support the feed mills with FDSA, FMIM and SAP We need to preserve all these bullet points. Requirements: Required Education And Experience: - Work related experience in Quality Assurance, Food Safety, FDA and USDA regulation is preferred. - Work related experience in Quality Assurance methods and 3rd party certification programs for is required. (Note: grammar odd but keep as is.) - A degree in Poultry Science or a food safety related field is preferred. We could also include maybe "Position Type/Expected Hours of Work" but that's Schedule. Benefits: - Vision, Medical, and Dental coverage begin after 60 days of employment - Paid Time Off: sick leave, vacation, and 6 company observed holidays - 401(k): company match begins after the first year of service and follows the company vesting schedule - Base Salary range of $108,714.00 - $132,086.70 (but that's Pay, not Benefits) - Incentive Pay: This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s annual bonus plan; the amount of bonus varies and is subject to the standard terms and conditions of the incentive program - Career Development: Our company is dedicated to supporting professional growth by offering continuous learning opportunities and a focus on career growth through various learning and development programs - Better Futures: The Company is dedicated to ensuring a safe and secure environment for our team members and visitors. To assist in achieving that goal, we conduct drug, alcohol, and background checks for all new team members post-offer and prior to the start of employment. The Immigration Reform and Control Act requires that verification of employment eligibility be documented for all new employees by the end of the third day of work. But note: Better Futures and drug/background checks maybe not a benefit but could be considered part of Benefits? The posting lumps them under "Why Work for Pilgrim’s?" after Benefits list. We could keep them under Benefits as they are part of why work there. However the instruction: include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text. The drug/background check is specific content. So we can include. But we also have Pay section separate for base salary and incentive pay. So we should move base salary and incentive pay to Pay section. Benefits section should include Vision/Medical/Dental, PTO, 401(k), Career Development, Better Futures (drug/background checks). However the Better Futures paragraph includes drug/background checks and immigration verification; that's more about hiring process but still part of why work there. We'll keep. Pay: - Base Salary range of $108,714.00 - $132,086.70 - Incentive Pay: This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s annual bonus plan; the amount of bonus varies and is subject to the standard terms and conditions of the incentive program Schedule: - This is a full-time position, and hours of work and days are determined by the needs of the facilities. - This job will require travel up-to 30 weeks per year and work requires visiting feed mills, hatcheries, grow-out and processing facilities. We could also mention location requirement? Already in About the role. Now we need to output HTML fragment only, no /, no markdown fences. We'll produce something like:
About the role
At Pilgrim’s, Safety Is A Condition, which means the safety of our team members comes first - always. The selected candidate will need to be located at or within an hour of any of the Pilgrim’s complexes for support purposes. This is NOT a remote position! The Director of Quality Assurance plans and directs activities concerned with the maintenance of established Pilgrim’s programs including the Animal Food Safety