JOB SUMMARY:
The Director of Quality & Food Safety (Q&FS) is directly responsible for continuously improving product and process, while leading a team focused on first pass quality for all Bridgetown plants. Specific areas of responsibility include Plant quality and food safety (including Sanitation), supplier quality, and customer quality.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Lead team of QA professionals, in order to ensure oversight of all appropriate quality systems
- Interface with customers with Compliance team on quality, food safety requirements, investigations, or improvement plans
- Assure compliance with all customer requirements, audit standards and regulatory requirements by working with plant QA, Operations, and Maintenance teams
- Partner cross-functionally to integrate Q&FS perspective into business planning and execution
- Develop and implement appropriate strategies to drive continuous improvement and regulatory compliance
- Develop programs to track and reduce HOLDs and non-conformances
- Develop, implement, verify and test effectiveness of quality systems affecting all aspects of manufacturing
- Review and analyze data in order to recognize trends and opportunities for improvement/corrective action
- Establish programs and training with all appropriate personnel, GMPs, HACCP, and other quality systems
- Ensure supplier quality issues from the plants are investigated and addressed in partnership with Compliance Team
- Ensure customer quality issues are investigated and robust corrective action/preventive action plans are developed and implemented as defined
- Maintain proper departmental staffing levels and employee performance evaluations
- Overall succession planning and development of Quality Department staff
- Travel up to 25-50% of time as required to support Oregon and Tennessee sites
- Participate in New Product Development initiatives as part of a cross functional team
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- BS in Microbiology or Food Science
- 10+ years of experience in Quality Assurance (Food, Beverage and/or Nutraceutical)
- 5+ years of plant-based food safety and quality experience
- Experience with industry standards and regulations such as: SQF, BRC, HACCP, GFSI
- Experience with allergen management, kosher, organic certifications
- Ability to understand and communicate instructions in English
Working Conditions/Physical Factors:
- Able to conduct work in adherence to SQF and Bridgetown Natural Foods policies
- Ability to occasionally lift up to 50 pounds
- Ability to safely maneuver through a production and warehouse environment
- Position requires sitting for long periods of time working in an office environment
- Able to work in environment containing nuts, peanuts, dairy, grains and other allergens
Other Duties as Assigned:
This job description is not intended to be all inclusive, but to serve as a guideline. Management retains the right to determine additions or changes to job responsibilities.
