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Quality Assurance Regional Manager (Food Manufacturing) - Relo Avail - to $145,000

  • Defiance, OH
  • $130,000 to $145,000
OPEN JOB: Quality Assurance Regional Manager-Midwest
LOCATION: Defiance, Ohio
***Relocation Assistance Available
BASE SALARY:  $130,000 to $145,000
INDUSTRY: Food & Beverages
JOB CATEGORY: Manufacturing - Quality

NOTE: choice to be based at either the Defiance, OH or Bridgeton, MO sites

IDEAL CANDIDATE:
  • Solid QA experience in the Food and Beverage manufacturing industry. Will also prioritize candidates out of the Pharma or Medical Device manufacturing industries.
  • 10+ to 15 years experience
  • Experience managing Quality at multiple manufacturing sites a plus. This position will oversee Quality Assurance at 3 sites.
  • PCQI, HACCP, SQF experience
  • Strong Supervisory/ mentorship of teams

POSITION SUMMARY:
  • The Quality Assurance Regional Manager-Midwest is a key member of the corporate quality leadership team and has a choice to be based at either the Defiance, OH or Bridgeton, MO sites
  • Responsible for ensuring that products manufactured across multiple sites are safe, compliant with the company, customer, and regulatory standards, and meet quality expectations.
  • This role drives a culture of excellence through leadership, coaching, and cross-functional collaboration.

People:
  • Responsible for development and performance of the regional quality team
  • Builds strong cross functional relationships and demonstrates ability to effectively influence sites strategy
  • Develops a culture that drives quality improvements and efficiently interfaces with operational excellence processes
  • Develop and deliver training programs focused on food safety and quality
  • Communicate effectively with internal and external customers.
  • Timely escalation and communication of food safety, quality, financial issues
  • Effectively cascade goals using tools such as SMART goals. Aligns with teams on standard work
  • Motivates and builds team strength

Systems:
  • Accountable for the effective application of Product Safety, Product Quality and prerequisite systems regionally. Ensures these systems effectively interface with change control and commercialization processes.
  • Strong ability to root cause issues and eliminate the cause or implement engineering or systems improvements to enact robust prevention. Applies use of basic root cause tools.
  • Accountable for an effective internal audit program and ensures systems are working to reduce risk, and that corrective actions are completed
  • Drives priorities that have largest positive impact on key performance indicators and metrics including but not limited to; Inspection/Compliance performance, First Pass Quality, Complaints, Disposals, Inventory Health, Customer Responsiveness, CAPA closure and effectiveness, systems performance, environmental & sanitation performance.
  • Ensures that response to customers, inspectors and auditors are professional, timely, and in scope.
  • Collaborates with R&D, Production, and commercial teams in the development and preparation for production of new Products, Processes, and Equipment to support new product/customer launches. Ensures the process quantifies the probability of success and clearly communicates the risks and proposed mitigations as an outcome of first-time makes
  • Interface with operational excellence programs to maximize effectiveness
  • Provide support and aid in preparation for customer visits and external audit
  • Share best practices and integrate quality systems across sites.

Knowledge & Experience:
  • Operated in an FDA regulated environment, ideally food or dietary supplement
  • Assess and mitigate food safety, regulatory, and cost risks.
  • Apply sanitation principles effectively.
  • Application of Statistical Process Control (SPC) for process evaluation and improvements.
  • Effective project manager that knows how to prioritize and meet deadlines

REQUIREMENTS:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Science or related field.
  • 10+ years of experience in food, supplement, or related industry, including management.
  • Familiarity with FDA, HACCP, SQF, and industry best practices.


If you are interested in pursuing this opportunity, please respond back and include the following:
 
  • MS WORD Resume
  • required compensation.
  • Contact information.
  • Availability
 
Upon receipt, one of our managers will contact you to discuss the position in full detail.


STEPHEN FLEISCHNER
Recruiting Manager
INTERMEDIA GROUP, INC.
EMAIL: sfleischner@intermediagroup.com
LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevefleischner/