Director of Quality and Food Safety

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.