Quality and Food Safety Manager - Urban Farmer Foods
Manteno, IL 60950
About the Job
JOB SUMMARY:
This position is responsible for ensuring the company Food Safety and Quality standards are maintained and documented during assigned shift. The incumbent provides leadership to the quality team and ensures team members are completing assigned tasks and necessary documentation.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Provide content for all GMP and Food Safety policy training and develop and execute knowledge assessment methodology to verify clear understanding of the policies by all site personnel. Periodically monitors adherence and compliance of policies by production employees.
2. Develop, maintain and ensure proper execution and documentation of all food safety and quality policies and procedures.
3. Site SQF Practitioner and Preventive Controls Qualified Individual (PCQI)
4. Responsible for overseeing site HACCP plan coordination
5. Provide direction, assistance, and training to Quality Assurance Supervisors who oversee Quality Assurance Technicians, responsible for monitoring production lines for HACCP and regulatory compliance to ensure food safe quality product is produced.
6. Provide assistance to the production department when quality issues arise. Ensure product is produced to customer specifications
7. Performs annual food safety system (prerequisite programs, Food Safety/HACCP Plan, etc.) verifications and validations
8. Coordinate the hold and release program.
9. Manage the sites Microbiological Programs and assist in problem solving environmental, sanitation and food safety issues.
10. Oversees Pest Control Program and directs pest control provider to ensure effectiveness.
11. Ensure all internal and external product testing (Micro and Chemistry) is conducted as required and per customers specifications.
12. Ensure site preparedness and participate in state and federal inspections and external customer audits when they occur.
13. Oversee generation of customer COA based on established specifications.
14. Analyze customer complaints, develop response, to answer and corrective action to resolve
15. Ensure all required corrective actions are documented and tracked through completion
16. All staff are responsible for Compliance with all GMP, Food Safety and Plant Safety rules while in the processing facility. Staff are encouraged to report Food Safety and Quality concerns immediately to their supervisors and Quality representatives on shift.
17. Other responsibilities as assigned by Management.
QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:
For this position, a College Diploma in Science is preferred with 5 years of Food Quality manufacturing experience or at minimum, a High School Diploma and 10 years of quality experience. This individual must be self-motivated, have strong leadership skills and work well in a team setting. Excellent oral and written communication skills are needed to document Quality programs and ensure team accomplishes tasks in a timely manner. USDA Plant experience is preferred. Must have completed training in the SQF system.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
1. Ability to routinely lift and carry packaging weighing up to 20 lbs.
2. Be able to perform the above tasks in different working conditions, such as hot and cold environments
3. Medically fit to handle minor exposure to chemical cleaning solutions.
4. Must wear assigned PPE and follow sanitation procedures
5. At least 8 hours on feet standing or walking to work station
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
This position works in an office and a manufacturing environment with variable temperature and loud noises from machinery and equipment alarms. The incumbent will be exposed to loud noises and alarms from equipment and machinery.
It all started way back in 1948…
…back when we had an honest-to-goodness working farm on the outskirts of the bustling metropolis of Chicago. As one of the largest specialty vegetable farms in the Midwest, we worked the land, bringing fresh produce to market. And even though we’ve grown out of that first urban farm, we haven’t forgotten what it means to be an Urban Farmer. It means working with honesty, integrity and a dedication to providing the freshest products.