Description
Kelly Science & Clinical has an Exciting Opportunity for a Food Manufacturing Quality Assurance Manager for our growing client near St. Louis, MO
Full-time
Direct-hire
Salary: $75,000-$90,000 DOE
We're looking for an experienced, forward-thinking Quality Assurance Manager to lead the charge in ensuring top-tier food safety and quality standards at our Central Kitchen. This hands-on, dynamic role is essential for maintaining compliance with industry regulations, fostering continuous product development, and driving excellence in everything from food safety to customer satisfaction.
How You'll Make an Impact:
As the heart of our quality assurance team, your responsibilities will include:
Ensuring Food Safety Compliance:
• Lead the charge in maintaining cutting-edge food safety programs that meet and exceed federal and state regulations, including HACCP, HARPC, FSMA, GMPs, SOPs, and SSOPs.
• Keep our Food Safety Plan fresh, thorough, and effective, ensuring all required documentation (vendor certifications, hazard analysis, pest control, environmental monitoring, etc.) is always up-to-date.
• Own the responsibility of managing logs and records, ensuring compliance is maintained at all times.
Training and Development:
• Take pride in mentoring and educating Associates and Managers, ensuring food safety, quality, and sanitation are always top of mind.
• Play an integral role in onboarding new team members, delivering vital food-handling and safety education, and creating a culture of excellence.
Driving Product Quality & Development:
• Partner with Prepared Foods Managers to refine new recipes, ingredients, and production methods, taking an innovative approach to quality.
• Lead sensory taste panels, shelf-life studies, and recipe testing to ensure product consistency and the highest quality standards.
• Maintain detailed archives of testing and samples to drive data-backed improvements.
Executing Operational Standards:
• Collaborate with plant management to enforce best practices in quality assurance and sanitation.
• Investigate and resolve any food quality concerns, ensuring swift corrective actions and thorough documentation.
• Leverage systems like Eatec to maintain production efficiency and compliance.
• Audit finished products to ensure they meet our exacting standards for quality, weight, and presentation.
• Foster a work environment that embraces companies' core values, where innovation, collaboration, and inclusivity thrive.
What You Bring to the Table:
• A Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Food Technology, Biology, Chemistry, or a related field.
• 4+ years of experience in food service or manufacturing, with at least 2 years in a leadership or supervisory role.
• Expertise in food safety systems and regulatory frameworks (FSMA, HACCP, HARPC, GMPs, and sanitation).
• PCQI certification preferred but not required.
• A natural leader with exceptional interpersonal skills, able to coach, guide, and inspire your team.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to stay organized in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work in diverse plant environments (from cold zones at 40°F to hot zones over 100°F).
• Flexibility in your schedule, with a focus on Monday to Friday, but willing to adapt during peak production periods.
Why Us?
We don't just offer a job—we offer a chance to be part of something bigger. Here's why joining our team is an exciting opportunity:
• Comprehensive health and retirement benefits, including medical, dental, disability, and 401(k) with company match.
• Weekly pay to keep you on track financially.
• Paid time off for rest, relaxation, and those “life happens” moments.
• Employee Assistance Program to help you and your family navigate life's challenges.
• Associate-only savings, free products, sweepstakes, bonus points, and more—because we love rewarding our team!
• Wellness initiatives, volunteer opportunities, and company events to keep you healthy, connected, and inspired.
• A culture of recognition, where your contributions and hard work are truly valued.
• Career growth and development opportunities that allow you to Grow Every Day—both professionally and personally.
As part of our promise to talent, Kelly supports those who work with us through a variety of benefits, perks, and work-related resources. Kelly offers eligible employees voluntary benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, term life, whole life, accident insurance, critical illness, a legal plan, and short-term disability. As a Kelly employee, you will have access to a retirement savings plan, service bonus and holiday pay plans (earn up to eight paid holidays per benefit year), and a transit spending account. In addition, employees are entitled to earn paid sick leave under the applicable state or local plan. Click here for more information on benefits and perks that may be available to you as a member of the Kelly Talent Community.
Why Kelly® Science & Clinical?
Kelly Science & Clinical is your connection to premier scientific and clinical companies looking to hire industry experts just like you. Our team creates expert talent solutions to solve the world's most critical challenges. Every day, we match science professionals with dream jobs that fit their skills, interests, and career goals—it's the way we think job searching should be. Nearly 100 percent of our science recruiters have a professional background and education in science, so we know a thing or two about the science market and how to get your expertise noticed.About Kelly
Work changes everything. And at Kelly, we're obsessed with where it can take you. To us, it's about more than simply accepting your next job opportunity. It's the fuel that powers every next step of your life. It's the ripple effect that changes and improves everything for your family, your community, and the world. Which is why, here at Kelly, we are dedicated to providing you with limitless opportunities to enrich your life—just ask the 300,000 people we employ each year.Kelly is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants regardless of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other legally protected status, and we take affirmative action to recruit, employ, and advance qualified individuals with disabilities and protected veterans in the workforce. Requests for accommodation related to our application process can be directed to the Kelly Human Resource Knowledge Center. Kelly complies with the requirements of California's state and local Fair Chance laws. A conviction does not automatically bar individuals from employment. Kelly participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.
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