Quality Team Lead

About the role

Gallo Glass, established in 1958, is a state-of-the-art highly-innovative glass manufacturer committed to meeting the needs of its customers while minimizing its impact on the environment. The largest glass plant on the West Coast, and the only glass plant in the world solely dedicated to the wine and spirits industry, Gallo Glass is a family owned and operated company. Running 24 hours a day 365 days a year, the plant turns 1500 tons of molten glass from natural raw materials all sourced in California, into 2 million bottles per day. Come see for yourself and join Gallo Glass: California Pure.

Responsibilities

• Leading the quality team, ensuring quality performance, cost parameters, and efficient processing-related communication flow and coordination with the Sr. Quality Manager at our 24-hour facility.
• Leads problem solving for area of responsibility and participates in cross-functional problem solving.
• Leads team members through change initiatives and continuous improvement efforts related to Food Safety System.
• Participates in the development and updating of systems to improve product safety and product conformity.
• Supports the improvement and management of the document control and record management system.
• Creates and executes training programs to educate technical operators on the calibration, method of use, and interpretation of results of measurement equipment.
• Supports the development of standards to meet all quality specifications and recommends changes to procedures.
• Works with suppliers/CTO’s to ensure continual improvement in focus areas as well as FS and QMS compliance align with Gallo standards.
• Ensures that all activities are in compliance with organization goals and acceptable regulations.
• Compiles, analyzes, interprets, and reports results.
• Investigates quality issues and makes recommendations for resolving issues.
• Monitors and reviews the progress and accuracy of assigned work.
• Ensures the consistent application of organization policies related to food safety.
• Manages the food safety team and assigns the team with authorities to approve HACCP plan(s) and prerequisite (PRPs) programs.
• Ensures adequate allocation of resources to support the establishment, implementation, maintenance, improvement, and updating of the FSMS.
• Continually updates the FSMS where necessary or appropriate.
• Directly supervises and oversees the day-to-day quality operations of a group of employees to assure a smooth workflow.
• Assigns, monitors, and reviews the progress and accuracy of assigned work.
• Trains and develops team including problem solving their own day-to-day quality operational issues.
• Supports personnel investigations and root cause analysis as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree plus 2 years of quality assurance/quality control, manufacturing production/operations, laboratory operations, or engineering experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility; OR High School diploma or State-issued equivalency certificate plus 6 years of quality assurance/quality assurance/quality control, manufacturing production/operations, laboratory operations, or engineering experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility.
• Certification in food safety standards such as ISO 22000, FSSC 22000, HACCP, or equivalent.
• Experience auditing Food Safety or Quality Systems.
• Demonstrated team building, leadership and mentoring skills.
• Experience defining problems, collecting data, establishing facts and drawing valid conclusions.

Skills

• Bachelor of Science degree in Food Science, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Microbiology, Engineering plus 4 years of food and beverage production quality assurance experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility.
• American Society for Quality (ASQ) CQE/CQA certifications.
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