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The Quality Assurance Team Leader leads the efforts of the Quality Assurance Department to achieve plant category and enterprise goals. Duties include training and coaching partners maintaining compliance with customers requirements overseeing quality food safety and sanitation program design implementation and execution and adhering to company and government programs regulations requirements and guidelines. Additionally this position is responsible for leading continuous improvement efforts in quality food safety and sanitation maintaining an audit ready standard at all times and evaluating partner performance including partner accountability for adherence to safety foods safety quality and sanitation programs.

What youll do:

• Develop SFI Culture - train coach evaluate and reinforce continuous improvement principles with partners as well as personal people business and process leadership.
• Goals lead and participate in team efforts to meet or exceed plant category and enterprise goals through the use of continuous improvement tools processes and teams.
• Customer Requirements work with Operations Sales and PLS leadership in identifying communicating and meeting customer requirements. Develop processes programs and checks to ensure customer requirements are met.
• Governmental Regulations Be knowledgeable of various government regulations that must be complied with i.e. OSHA USDA FDA EPA EEOC etc. Work with our plant and EQFS teams to meet regulatory requirements.
• Work with the plant and EQFS teams to make sure that Food Safety Quality Sanitation and Lab programs are designed implemented and executed on a daily basis to meet goals and requirements.
• Financial - Track and maintain control of department budgets to assure plant goals are met. Participate in capital project analysis justification and food safe implementation. Administer companywide processes and certification programs.
• Together with the leadership team ensures compliance with Food Safety and Food Quality Plans in addition to customer requirements. Interprets and communicates customer requirements to plant production and/or support groups. Establishes and Audits PCPs CCPs and Standard Operating Procedures to define and monitor processes to ensure customer requirements are met. Reviews incidents during which the procedures are not met and determines appropriate corrective action for partners failing to follow standard procedures.

What you need to succeed:

• Bachelors in Food/Dairy Science or related
• 1-3 years of experience in Leadership of small to mid-sized Quality Assurance Teams. Experience in the food industry
• Knowledge of food safety protocols which can normally be gained through licensing or certification programs
• Ability to travel up to 10%

Schreiber Foods is an Equal Opportunity Employer all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity or national origin and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.