Job duties:

• Leads and develops on-shift Quality professionals that provide round-the-clock support, stewardship, and governance for quality and food safety to the bakery.
• Serves as member of bakery leadership team working closely and collaboratively with other functional departments to drive initiatives and manage daily bakery functions.
• Serves as Food Safety and Quality subject matter expert. Provides and oversees regular food safety and quality training for bakery employees.
• Functions as HACCP team leader, leads team in hazard analyses, HACCP plan development, and verification and validation activities.
• Reviews and verifies quality / food safety records, including CCP, follows up on issues noted and files. Serves as PCQI.
• Schedules, assigns, leads, and conducts daily inspections, monthly self-inspections, and internal BRC and Weston Foods audits and enforces GMP’s. Follows up on issues, facilitates root cause analysis and development of corrective and preventive actions.
• Ensures environmental program is followed, including swabbing equipment, drains, floor, etc and submits samples for laboratory analysis. Follows up with root cause and corrective actions with Sanitation and other impacted departments if results are out of specification. 
• Schedules, assigns, oversees, and conducts regular quality and food safety checks of finished products and provides immediate feedback to production supervisors, managers and quality management. 
• Assesses the effectiveness of the traceability program (verifies lot numbers on ingredients against information on the processing documents). Participates in mock recalls.
• Assists in carrying out hazard assessments, inspections and audits (including BRC audit) as required by legislative or corporate requirements.
• Work with customers and R&D team to develop product requirements.
• Prepare and inspect documents, lead the Organizational team during BRC audits, Customer audits, Regulatory audits.
• Oversees pest control (managed by third party), uniform program and sanitation program

In order to be successful in this role, you should:

• Knowledge of GFSI (preferably BRC), food safety (HACCP) programs, Preventive Controls, and Quality Systems
• Bachelor’s degree strongly preferred.
• 3-5 years QA experience in a food plant
• Strong Microsoft office skills

Benefits:

• Health, Dental, Vision coverage
• Disability/Life Insurance
• Unionized environment