Quality Assurance Team Leader (Manager)

Job Category: Quality Job Family: Plant Quality Assurance 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. 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 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% #INDHO Qualifying positions offer: Get not one, but TWO retirement benefits. When you join our employee-owned company, youll be part of our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) from day one. That means in addition to an 8% 401(k) match into the ESOP, Schreiber will contribute an extra amount about 10% of your earnings toward your retirement every year. Thats a company contribution of around 18% in retirement savings annually! Earn bonus pay. Youll have an opportunity to earn incentive pay twice a year when we meet our company goals. Earn $ for focusing on your health. Get up to $1,200 for your health savings account each year, plus get reimbursed for fitness membership, equipment or classes. Pursue development thats relevant to your role, career goals and the company. Plus, we offer tuition reimbursement if you want to further your education to grow in your role at Schreiber. Get access to medical, prescription drug, dental and vision benefits starting day one. This inc