Quality Assurance Team Leader (Manager) Job Listing at Schreiber Foods in Silao, Gto. (Job ID R0030662)

Description

Job Category: Quality Job Family: Enterprise Quality and Food Safety Job Description:

The Quality Assurance Team Leader (Manager) 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.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Develop Schreiber Foods 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., SENASICA, USDA, FDA, COFEPRIS, 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.
• 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:

• Bachelor's in Food Science, Dairy Science or related field
• 5+ years of experience in Leadership of mid to large-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 15%