Quality Assurance Manager Tate's Bake Shop

About the role

The Quality Assurance Manager oversees the quality and food safety agenda at Tate’s Bake Shop on Long Island, New York. They lead the site’s Quality Assurance, Compliance and Sanitation teams and are directly responsible for ensuring a consistent, high-quality product that meets Tate’s standards and delights the consumer.

Responsibilities

• Create and monitor Quality Control systems to ensure all in-process and finished goods meet established government, Mondelez and internal specifications, as well as being manufactured in accordance to all Food Safety measures.
• Provide leadership and technical assistance to operations and maintenance by managing food safety and compliance systems, instilling regulatory awareness and commitment.
• Perform fact-based assessments/audits of Manufacturing Systems to ensure all records, procedures, processing, packaging, and equipment are in compliance with all federal, state and other regulatory requirements.
• Lead all internal and external auditing activities and follow-up, ensuring the plant maintains compliance to external standards.
• Achieve the Quality goals and objectives and support the development of the Quality Improvement Plan.
• Evaluate trends of key Quality measures, identify root causes of deviations and implement effective corrective actions.
• Ensure the required quality/regulatory training is maintained.
• Implement effective programs to instill an error prevention and continuous improvement mindset in all colleagues (in support of Total Quality and ISO philosophies).
• Ensure adequate support exists for necessary evaluation of raw materials, finished products, industrial hygiene studies and environmental sampling and testing.
• Develop plans and controls to prevent recurrences and establish ongoing continuous improvement activities to deliver reductions in consumer complaints and ongoing process control improvements.
• Design and implement a people capability and development strategy, focused on developing the teams' technical, leadership and interpersonal skills.
• Provide quality support for plant projects and initiatives in the manufacturing environment.

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of work experience, with 8 years in field Production/Manufacturing within the food or pharmaceutical industry, preferably in dairy.
• Minimum 8 years experience directly managing food/drugs quality/safety and regulatory compliance in a fast-paced environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Quality, Food Science, Business Administration, Engineering, or related field.
• Certified in PCQI and HACCP.
• Bilingual (Spanish/English) strongly preferred.
• Full-time, in-person position with flexibility required.
• Ability to work in a manufacturing environment with known allergens such as: milk, eggs, nuts (tree nuts), wheat and soy.

Qualifications

• Quality and Food Safety Leadership, including strong regulatory experience in addition to proven experience driving Quality and Food Safety culture.
• Demonstrated experience and knowledge in the following: Foundational knowledge of food manufacturing operations, sanitation and maintenance; clear understanding how regulatory compliance and quality impacts each function of the business.
• Deep knowledge of compliance with FSMA, HACCP, and ISO-22000 (FSSC) or similar program.
• Delivering risk-based food safety programs to drive commercial outcomes, ideally within fast moving consumer goods environment.
• Driving food safety strategy across the business, providing operational observations and practical input that translates into significant business benefit.
• Ability to engage and motivate site teams (operations, maintenance, sanitation) to execute quality initiatives and deliver strong results.
• Leverages excellent communication skills, augmenting to the audience from hourly associate to senior executives.
• Engages key stakeholders in strategy alignment and implementation, collaborating to complete the agenda by working effectively to influence across functions, geographies, and with internal and external partners.
• Relentless curiosity and a continuous improvement mentality.
• Building an internal network that allows for effective communication, influencing and stakeholder engagement.

Skills

• Strategic thinking and implementation.
• Team development and capability growth.
• Performance improvements across teams in complex environments.
• Leadership capabilities.
• Solution-oriented problem solving.
• Robust, executable and sustainable actions.
• TPM or Il6S management.

Benefits

• Base salary range: $122,000 to $167,750.
• Participation in a highly competitive bonus program with possibility for overachievement based on performance and company results.
• Health insurance, wellness and family support programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave programs, education related programs, paid holidays and vacation time.
• Some benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company.
• Within Country Relocation support available.
• Volunteer International Transfer Policy.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $122,000 to $167,750; the exact salary depends on several factors such as experience, skills, education and location.

Schedule

Full-time, in-person position with flexibility required.

Benefits

• Health insurance, wellness and family support programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave programs, education related programs, paid holidays and vacation time.
• Some benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company.

Business Unit Summary

The United States is the largest market in the Mondelēz International family with a significant employee and manufacturing footprint. Here, we produce our well-loved household favorites to provide our consumers with the right snack, at the right moment, made the right way. We have corporate offices, sales, manufacturing and distribution locations throughout the U.S. to ensure our iconic brands—including Oreo and Chips Ahoy! cookies, Ritz, Wheat Thins and Triscuit crackers, and Swedish Fish and Sour Patch Kids confectionery products—are close at hand for our consumers across the country.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Mondelez International is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Persons with Disabilities. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact 847-943-5460 for assistance. For more information about your Federal rights, please see eeopost.pdf; EEO is the Law Poster Supplement; Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision; Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal.