Quality Assurance

The ideal candidate will have strong experience in food and dairy quality systems, HACCP, GMPs, and audit readiness and a proven ability to ensure compliant, high-quality finished products that meet customer specifications.

Responsibilities:

• Establish, supervise, administer, and monitor quality assurance programs to ensure policies, procedures, specifications, HACCP, GMPs, BRC, EQMS, and regulatory requirements are implemented.
• Provide quality and food safety support to quality and production departments.
• Assist management teams with the maintenance of quality systems under LQMS.
• Follow up and monitor Product Safety Quality Event corrective actions.
• Prepare and maintain plant audit documents and programs.
• Perform positive release and complete related HACCP record reviews.
• Manage external warehouse inventory and coordinate lot track-and-trace exercises.
• Update SharePoint and support document control program management.
• Assist with lab calibrations and act as backup to the Quality Supervisor to support lab technicians.
• Support creation of quality trainings in partnership with the training specialist.
• Track non-conforming and downgrade product for cheese and manage specification deviations.
• Provide input on whey powder specification updates and manage customer samples for cheese.
• Assist with the Environmental Monitoring Program and manage the GMP audit program.
• Complete other duties as assigned.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Associate degree or higher, preferably in Food Science, Dairy Science, or a related field.
• Knowledge of HACCP, GMPs, BRC, and quality management systems.
• Auditing skills with corrective and preventive action understanding.
• Effective written and verbal communication, organization, and prioritization abilities.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision and troubleshoot quality issues.

Preferred Skills:

• Bachelor of Science in Food Science, Dairy Science, or a comparable field.
• Strong dairy quality assurance background and knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices.

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