SR. Plant QA Manager

Location: Chambersburg, PA, US, 17201 | Employment Type: Salaried | Shift: First | Work Arrangement: Onsite

About the role

The Plant Quality Assurance Manager II is responsible for leading, managing, and successfully executing all aspects of the Ventura Foods Quality and Food Safety Systems at the plant level. This will include coordinating with the Regional Plant Quality Assurance Manager and other Ventura plant QA Managers to manage the execution, communication, and training for all policy systems that relate to Ventura systems, customer systems, and all aspects of maintaining adherence to the FDA Food Safety and Modernization Act (FSMA), as well as USDA (if applicable), and other regulatory agencies. This role will also coordinate projects and training support to the Operations teams and be a liaison with company functional groups of Technical Services, Operations Excellence, R&D, HS&E, Sales, Marketing, HR, and Finance. The Plant QA Manager ensures responsiveness and timelines of projects, programs, and management of personnel to delight our customer's customers' expectations.

Responsibilities

• Provides the leadership and management for the Ventura Foods Quality and Safety systems.
• Leads all aspects of managing plant systems for SOP's, SSOP's, training, and adhering to total product specifications (including key Must Do's, Right First Time processing, and Total Product Containment).
• Maintains company and facility policies, procedures, and programs supporting food safety and quality systems (including managing special focus for key customer specification requirements, HACCP/GMP's, and SQF II requirements; includes all second party and third party audits to confirm compliance).
• Manages and ensures direction and training for QA; responsible for budget and costs associated with overseeing the Quality function (including compliance and schedules for training, Food Safety and Quality Systems audits, and testing methodologies).
• Works closely with site Sanitation Manager to achieve Master Sanitation and Production Sanitation activities; collaborates with sanitation department on PEM Program to ensure proper execution.
• Participates as part of the Plant Management team in budgeting, people planning, and capital expenditure review process; maintains department staff reviews and annual performance goals for individuals and self.
• Leads by example in conducting and analyzing company Quality Assurance plans as it relates to HACCP/GMP's; identifies gaps to improve critical control points and preventative measures; works with Technical Services and R&D teams in establishing relevant specifications, monitoring and reviewing analysis