**Food Quality and Safety Manager - Tippin's Pie Plant - Kansas City, KS**

**Description**

We have room for you at our new facility! Join a team that is growing! The Quality Assurance and Food Safety Manager is the on-site food safety and regulatory authority at Tippin ' s. The position has the primary responsibility of driving the food safety systems for Tippin ' s by developing, modifying, and maintaining the plants ' HACCP, SQF and regulatory programs to ensure compliance with all regulatory requirements for the production of safe and wholesome food.

Assures consistent quality of production by developing and enforcing good manufacturing practices (GMP) systems; validating processes; providing documentation; managing the team.

The successful candidate will build strong internal relationships with Sales, Operations and Finance and be responsible for business partnering, forecasting, planning, analytics, and ensuring effective financial control over their specific areas of responsibility.

This is an exciting opportunity for a self-starter that enjoys working in a fast-paced environment, and is comfortable working in a small, lean organization. The ideal candidate has leadership skills, is process oriented, is highly ethical, possesses a high degree of intellectual curiosity, is business savvy, and has a solid quality assurance foundation. The Quality Assurance and Food Safety Manager will have significant input and involvement in overall business process.

**Qualifications:**

* Strong communicator verbal, written and electronic

* Excellent ability to work with third-party auditors to achieve success for the company

* Ability to thrive in a small business organization

* High aptitude for and experience with critical analytical work

* High degree of intellectual curiosity with and affinity for research and problem solving

* Ability to communicate and deal effectively with team members at all organizational levels and establish sound relationships with all levels of team members

* Strong coaching and team development skills

* Intermediate knowledge of MS Office Suite skills

* Strong work ethic and sense of personal responsibility for work outcomes

* Flexible, organized and able to accurately work under time constraints and deadlines

* Able to perform other duties and responsibilities as requested

* **Experience:**

* Five years proven experience in quality assurance and food safety roles

* Bakery operations management experience is a plus

* PCQI certified, HACCP certified preferred

* English/Spanish is preferred, but not required

* Drug Free Environment/EOE

Quick Facts Location: Kansas City, KS Employment Type: Full Time Category: #1 Tippin's Gourmet Pie Plant 5051 Speaker Road KC Pay: Salary Apply for this Job Online Job Alert **Thank you for subscribing to receive job alerts.** You should start receiving emails in the next week.

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