Food Safety and Quality Program Manager
Food Safety and Quality Program Manager
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$ 100000 - 115000
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Job Description
Founded in 2013 Home Chef is the leading meal solutions company with both a retail and online presence. Available online at in retail at more than 2100 Kroger grocery stores Home Chef is committed to inspiring and enabling more people to cook simple delicious meals no matter how busy they are.
In 2023 Home Chef introduced a new brand Tempo! Tempo features a rotating selection of readytoheat meals delivered directly to your door. These meals are betterforyou versions of familiar favorites designed to save you time and reduce stress while maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Our Tempo menu includes options that are proteinpacked fiberrich calorie and carb conscious ketofriendly and dietitianapproved.
Similar to our recipes we recognize that variety is the spice of life and therefore our employees also bring their uniqueness and color to our fantastic team. Were eager to work with humble team players and pragmatic nextlevel thinkers to innovate on Home Chefs offerings.
The FSQA Program Manager is responsible for advancing Home Chefs food safety and quality assurance initiatives with a continuous improvement focus. This role will develop enhance and implement food safety programs identify improvement opportunities and promote compliance with regulatory and company standards. Collaborating closely with both corporate and plant FSQA teams the FSQA Program Manager will drive process efficiencies and innovations that reduce risk and enhance product quality.
Detailed Responsibilities
Development and implementation of policies and programs
Work with Director of FSQA to align on Home Chefs food safety and quality vision goals and priorities
- Provide guidance to site FSQA teams to mitigate food safety sanitation and quality risk
- Oversee the development implementation review and maintenance of the SQF System including food safety and quality fundamentals and the food safety and quality plans in accordance with FSMA
- Work closely alongside plant and corporate teams to implement new food safety and quality programs or roll out changes to existing programs as they relate to food safety quality and/or sanitationManage communication with plant and corporate stakeholders regarding new or updated programs
- Lead site specialists and superintendents through regulations policy and program development and improvement
- Serve as point person for leading investigations on any major food safety quality and sanitation issues escalating to FSQA Director as necessary
Continuous Improvement and Program Development
- Partner with the Director of FSQA to establish a vision for continuous improvement within Home Chefs food safety programs.
- Identify and implement enhancements to existing food safety and quality processes to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
- Ensure FSQA programs align with best practices and industry standards including SQF and FSMA requirements.
- Analyze data and trends to proactively address areas of food safety risk and quality assurance gaps.
- Develop and implement training materials to standardize best practices and drive program adoption at all facility levels.
Manage Corporate FSQA Resources and Crossfunctional Collaboration
- Manage corporate FSQA resources to ensure efficient of improvement initiatives across departments.
- Collaborate with plant FSQA teams and corporate stakeholders on program updates providing clear guidance on new initiatives.
- Oversee the deployment of technology and tools that support continuous improvement in FSQA processes.
Serve as Corporate FSQA Team Lead for Operations Led Process Improvements
- Provides leadership and is an active member of project teams to ensure food safety concerns are addressed at assigned plants
- Serve as point person representing FSQA Team for all major changes in tools and/or systems (i.e. Quality Management System)
- Anticipate impacts to food safety quality and/or sanitation as new products and/or processes are introduced generate solutions to address needs
- Keep FSQA Leadership Team up to date on all process changes and/or improvements providing guidance to site teams
- Maintain uptodate records on program performance metrics identifying trends that indicate improvement opportunities.
This position requires 40 travel
Qualifications
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge skill and/or ability needed for this role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.
- Minimum Bachelors degree is food science food technology microbiology or a related field
- In lieu of a Bachelors degree a combination of education and experience may be considered provided the candidate has demonstrated technical proficiency in the areas of food safety food microbiology food defense and food policy
- 5 years experience in quality assurance food safety food distribution food manufacturing supply chain or related field
- HACCP certification and experience maintaining HACCP program strongly preferred
- SQF Practitioner certification preferred; Previous experience with GFSI SQF and USDA audits
- Understanding of Food Safety regulations laws and best practices including those from FDA USDA and other state and local entities
- Knowledge of food microbiology food safety and food defense
- Experience developing implementing and maintaining food safety programs
- Demonstrated experience in implementing and sustaining continuous improvement initiatives.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to use data to inform program enhancements.
- 2 years experience managing and coaching a team ability to influence others
- Excellent verbal written and interpersonal skills capable of influencing and training crossfunctional teams.
- Selfmotivated adaptable to a fastpaced environment and committed to driving efficiency and innovation.
- If not already obtained must complete PCQI and HACCP training within 3 months of hire
More About Us
Perks and Benefits
- Candidates can experience Home Chef as a customer enter promo code PEOPLE30 for $30 off your first order!
- Medical dental vision life and disability insurance available
- Paid holidays sick time and vacation time
- 401k program
- Flexible spending accounts for qualified medical dependent care parking or transit expenses
How We Work Together
We are humble team players.
We are warm and gracious with team members and customers. We seek feedback to improve ourselves and respectfully listen to and accept input.
We are pragmatic nextlevel thinkers.
We come up with novel and unique ideas. We explore new strategies to avoid being constrained by conventional thinking.
We take ownership.
We approach ambiguous problems prepared to dive in get curious and learn more. We are resultsdriven always challenging ourselves to exceed goals.
Be at Home at Home Chef
We all show up authentically at Home Chef. Our team includes individuals with a variety of identities backgrounds and perspectives. You can trust that youll be able to bring your whole self to an inclusive and enjoyable workplace.
We welcome people of all races colors religions national origin or ancestry sex (including sexual identity) age physical or mental disabilities pregnancy veteran or military status unfavorable discharge from military service genetic information sexual orientation marital status order of protection status citizenship status arrest record or expunged/sealed convictions or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal state or local law.
Home Chef is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment Home Chef will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment please contact our People team at.
Home Chef offers the base salary range as posted below with the exact offer depending on factors such as geographic location experience skills and internal equity. While compensation is within the provided range it is not typical for offers to be made at the upper end. In addition to base salary Home Chef provides a comprehensive benefits package including healthcare coverage 401k match and paid time off.
Illinois Pay Range
$100000 $115000 USD
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Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
