Quality Assurance Manager/ Gerente de Garantia de Calidad

Are you experienced with Food safety in a swine slaughter Facility and looking for a job where your skill and experience can make a big impact? Look no further! Villari Foods is currently seeking a Quality Assurance Manager to join our team in The Pork Company in Warsaw, North Carolina.

At Villari Brothers Food, the Quality Assurance Manager will plan, coordinate and direct quality control & SQF program in two facilities, designed to ensure continuous

Production of products consistent with established standards.

Job duties:

Develop, analyze, and reassess the HACCP Plans, SSOPs, SOPs, Prerequisites, and supporting documents as needed to produce a Safe Quality Food product.

Collect review, and audit HACCP, SSOP, SOP, Prerequisite, and supporting documents and correct errors if necessary.

Implement corrective action if a HACCP, SSOP, SOP, Prerequisite, or any supporting documentation deviation has occurred. 

Review corrective action deviation documents with the Director of Food Safety prior to submitting to the USDA. 

Enforce immediate corrective actions if an NR has been issued by the USDA to restore conditions for production to continue or resume if areas are under the USDA tag.

Review and proofread all documents for grammar and spelling errors and ensure documentation is corrected properly.

Must be able to work with USDA and management at a professional level.

Review and sign all necessary documents daily double-checking QC technician's work.

Directly manage all employees assigned to work areas.

Follow employee handbook including discipline action up to termination.  The ability to stop operations to protect the product quality and food safety.

Assign and distribute additional duties in the absence of a QC technician.

Communicate quality and/or food safety issues to the Director of Food Safety and Director of Operations as they arise.

Assist in food safety and quality training QC Technicians, Managers, and Plant management when needed.

Knowledge of high-risk processing with the ability to enforce the company’s listeria control plan and take necessary corrective actions when positives occur.

This job position requires good attendance.

Other duties as assigned or requested by upper management.

Oversight, maintenance, and compliance to the facility HACCP, SSOPs, GMPs, SQF, ABF Program of meat processing and Manufacturing.

To qualify for this job, you must have:

Bachelor’s degree preferred or high school Diploma or GED

Experience in a high-volume food manufacturing environment or related field preferred

Demonstrated experience and strong commitment to meeting internal customer requirements and continuous improvement objectives

HACCP & GFSI Certified

 We’d also love it if you have:

Meat processing experience is a plus.

Experience in swine slaughter is a plus

What Villari Foods offers you:

Medical insurance

Company-paid life insurance

401K

Paid vacation days and holidays

Employee discounts on Villari meat products

Opportunities for employee recognition

Opportunities for promotion from within; more than 80% of our leaders started in an entry-level position at Villari Foods!

How Villari Foods is different:

As a family-owned and operated business, we’re more connected with our team members and truly consider each employee a member of the Villari family.

We’re a people-focused culture. Team members are not only known but also cared for by peers, leaders, and owners. You aren’t just a number.

The experience each employee has working at Villari Foods is important to us. That’s why we strive for a better quality of work-life with a slower pace that avoids an eventual burnout.

Physical requirements and work environment:
The physical demand described here are representative of those that an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Frequently exposed to a cold, wet environment, working near moving mechanical parts, exposure to fumes or airborne particles, and chemicals.

The noise level in the work environment is usually below 85 DB for a time-weighted average of 8 hours.

Frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, occasionally up to 100 pounds

Able to stand on one’s feet for long periods of time, walking and lifting.

Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus

Able to speak and hear for safety and productivity

Use scanners, tablets, radios, phones, and other warehouse machinery

Regularly required to sit/stand, use hands and/or fingers to grasp, handle, feel, reach, and pull

Occasionally required to climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl

More about Villari Foods:
Founded in 1925 by Sam Villari, Villari Foods is still a family-owned business with a rich history. As a teenager, Sam came to America from Italy, instilled with the value his native culture placed on pure, good food as an integral part of the family and social life. Today, at Villari Foods, we combine our unwavering commitment to Old World quality with our capacity to keep pace with evolving customer demands – and exceed expectations for great taste, good health, variety, value, convenience, and creativity in the kitchen. With the fourth Villari generation now entering the business, our family remains dedicated to ensuring an exceptional experience for all who enjoy our products.

We offer a wide variety of quality pork and other meat products for retail, foodservice, and export markets. We understand and are responding to consumer preferences for meat products that are locally sourced, humanely raised, organic, and free of antibiotics, hormones, and steroids. And we’re well known for our smoked products.

As part of Villari Foods, we also have our own livestock and trucking operations, which allows for greater quality control and extraordinary customer service, including superior delivery options. We partner with local farms and are committed to environmental sustainability.

EEO Statement:

Villari Foods is an equal opportunity employer committed to workplace diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, gender identity, protected veterans’ status, status as a disabled individual, or any other protected group status or non-job characteristic as directed by law.