Candidate must reside in or relocate to, Sioux Falls, SD or surrounding area. Relocation package will be provided as needed. Travel to neighboring facility in IA, and surrounding area up to 2 hours away, to execute role is a requirement of the position.
Summary
The Director of Food Safety and Quality will be instrumental in shaping and implementing strategy while leading teams for all systems pertaining to Operational Food Safety and Quality, implementation of OLM Food Solutions Food Safety and Quality policy, and Food Safety across the OLM Foods supply chain. Build and implement a world class predictive food safety and quality framework. Work in tandem with Supply Chain, Business, and Commercial partners to meet and or exceed food safety and quality expectations of customers, consumers, and regulatory partners. Build, maintain and foster a culture of Food Safety and Quality. Lead Quality Pillar leaders in the field drive operational excellence. Responsibility for QA over both the SD & IA facility, SD as base with travel as needed to IA facility approx. 90 minutes away.
Essential Functions
- Provides leadership and strategic vision to compliance, quality, and food safety programs across the operations. Promotes continuous improvement strategies, especially in the world of changing regulations.
- Proactively leads team in the development of systems, knowledge, capabilities, and practices in order to comply with all applicable food safety regulations, company procedures and for process/systems/regulatory audits (such FDA, USDA, and CFIA), inspection criteria, customer compliant investigation and response.
- Promotes the development and implementation of programs for conducting risk assessments, verification, validation, and monitoring of effectiveness of food safety plans, company food safety procedures and regulations for current processes and new line and equipment commissioning.
- Monitors emerging issues related to food safety and quality and leads development and implementation of strategies, policies, and procedures to mitigate. Delivers expertise and technical advice on complex and critical food safety concerns. Reports on developments, strategies, and implementation to Food Safety & Compliance Team.
- Leads the development of orientation programs and annual training of plant personnel with respect to GFSI, GMP, HACCP, and PCQI requirements.
- Communicates prioritization and status of initiatives to organizational leadership to ensure timelines and compliance dates are met.
- Ensure manufacturing facilities maintain quality certification(s) and internal food safety and quality (FS&Q) system compliance
- Strategically identify continuous improvement opportunities for the business and utilize CI tools such as SPC, Six Sigma, Lean, Root Cause Analysis, RedZone and others to drive food safety and quality (FS&Q) improvement.
- Assign, coordinate and review the technical work of the department or project teams, while remaining a subject matter expert in the areas in which they manage and support.
- Lead facilities in the adoption and disciplined use of the commercialization process for new product/process launches and redesigns by establishing relationships with Research and Development, Engineering, Regulatory, and Operations.
- Support engineering, procurement, and other supply chain initiatives, ensuring projects meet all required food processing paraments while maintaining required FS&Q standards and financial objectives.
- Management of programs designed to evaluate and improve FS&Q-based trends from customers/consumers comments, internal deviations, and industry trends. Develop improvement goals and lead improvement efforts for each plant against defined KPIs.
- Support plant audits/inspections as needed by Government agencies, Customers, and or Third-Party groups.
- Interface with the Divisional Business Unit leaders on new or expanded product opportunities.
- Provide technical support to Customer Excellence and Customer Affairs teams regarding customer responses and meetings.
- Contribute to the development of the annual Divisional Strategic Plan.
- Develop team member skill sets by conducting evaluations and recommending development opportunities through the use of continuing education, seminars, trade shows, and other methods.
- Coaches, mentors, and supports professional development of employees. Coordinates work and sets priorities to meet objectives. Manages budget.
- Promotes consistency and aligns across plants where possible.
- Extended member of the division leadership team provided technical support for commercialization and a food safety and quality approach to business
- The duties and responsibilities described are not a comprehensive list of all tasks. Additional tasks and duties may be assigned from time to time as necessitated by business needs.