Food Safety Quality Manager

About the Role

Johnsonville has an opportunity for a Food Safety/Quality Coordinator to join our Watertown FSQ Team. Your passion for continuous improvement will support the company in its drive to create a best-in-world quality culture through leadership and member interaction. This job is perfect for an individual who has a track record of improving and expanding the scope of their responsibilities and wants to continue to grow and be challenged.

Responsibilities

• Foster a culture of safety, accountability, and continuous improvement, striving for zero IFR year after year.
• Lead the plant food safety and quality system by administering programs, procedures, and policies while promoting Johnsonville culture and driving strategic continuous improvement in response to food safety and quality risks or incidents within animal harvest and fresh sausage processes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to monitor key food safety and quality performance metrics, identify trends and process variation, and drive effective corrective actions and sustained improvement.
• Lead and administer the facility’s Animal Welfare System and Programs.
• Ensure compliance with applicable regulatory requirements, including USDA- FSIS, Federal and State requirements.
• Lead cross-functional teams to excel at all site internal, customer, regulatory, and SQF audits, ensuring effective preparation, execution, and follow-up.
• Demonstrate the ability to apply technical acumen in relation to meat food safety and quality systems.
• Use your technical expertise to train members on food safety principles, quality systems, and regulatory requirements.
• Actively participate in network-wide project work as applied to food safety, quality, animal welfare, and process-related improvements.
• Directly coach and develop Food Safety and Quality team members.
• Lead and manage the performance of third-party contractors, such as pest control.
• Lead FSQ capital pipeline planning and budget development efforts to align facility investments with network food safety and quality strategies.

Education

Bachelor's degree in food science, Meat Science, Microbiology, or related field preferred.

Experience

• 5 years of experience in a food safety and quality leadership role required.
• Experience in food required; meat/poultry processing and harvest preferred.

Skills

• Demonstrated leadership and the ability to grow direct and indirect members required.
• Knowledge and understanding of food safety, HACCP systems, USDA/FDA, Animal Handling and Welfare programs, and regulatory requirements, with established regulatory relationships. Emphasis on prior USDA-FSIS facility experience.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Suite required.
• Possesses a Certification of Global Food Safety Initiative Standards [Safe Quality Food program preferred].
• Experience analyzing fresh product shelf life and microbiology preferred.
• Knowledge of continuous improvement processes (Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, etc.).
• Experience with digital document systems - SAP Business Operating System and Redzone preferred.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Other Requirements

Applicants must be eligible to work in the country where this job is located, without requiring sponsorship now or in the future.

Benefits

• Members have potential for a monthly bonus and 401k with a company match.
• Access to terrific benefits including affordable medical, dental, and vision coverage; flexible spending accounts; disability and life insurance; and fertility and adoption assistance.
• Competitive paid time off, including paid parental time off.

About Our Company

Since 1945, our family-owned band of sausage-makers has invented better ways to make, eat, and prepare crave-able sausage. Today, we are 4,000+ Members strong. We sell our famous sausage in all 50 United States and more than 40 countries. We have a culture built on the idea that if we make developing your talents our top priority, great business results will follow naturally. We call it The Johnsonville Way. It has been our secret sauce for decades, and we hope you get to experience it for yourself!