Plant Food Safety & Quality Manager

About the role

This position is located in Florence, KY with 300+ employees creating iconic products: Fudge Stripes and Famous Amos cookies.

Responsibilities

• Ensure an efficient and effective management of Food Safety and Quality (FSQ) in manufacturing
• Implement FSQ plans, improvement initiatives and projects at a plant level, ensuring central guidelines and legal and scientific standards are correctly applied
• Implement within the plant all Food Safety improvement initiatives and risk preventing actions
• Ensure efficient and effective implementation, maintenance and application of Plant Food Safety & Quality guidelines
• Guarantee certifications requirements are respected ensuring product compliance for all the receiving markets and coherence with products' claims
• Point of reference for local application of recipe / material compliance with local and international legislation
• Management and decision making within the Plant on FSQ non-conformities and consumer complaints
• Carry out root-cause analysis on occurred critical and major non-conformities and support the SME
• Measure compliance with FSQ through all transformation processes
• Implement within the plant all food safety improvement initiatives
• Run allergen cross contamination risk assessment in the plant
• Facilitates the application, applies and maintains updated all the internal regulations and external related to product, processes and linked structures
• Ensures the correct application of Ferrero Quality System, quality certifications and legal standards, in the overall productive process
• Ensures execution of the analytical sampling plan
• Team management - Management of her/his team to ensure that all activities are performed on time
• Ensures that all team members are trained on related procedures and operate in compliance with the work instructions and procedures
• Organize work schedule and priorities of her/his team
• Yearly performance evaluation of direct reports

Requirements

• Minimal Requirements:
• Master’s degree in food science, or related field
• Minimum of 8 years’ experience in quality assurance with experience in a food related industry
• Ability to read and interpret quality and regulatory documents
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Auditing and Assessment skills