Senior Quality Assurance Food Safety Manager - Manufacturing

Compensation Range

$140,000-155,000/Year

Position Overview:

You may know us for our delicious cheesecakes...and for being recognized by Fortune Magazine as one of the "100 Best Companies to Work For®" 12 years in a row!. What you may not know is at The Cheesecake Factory Bakery, our staff members are our highest quality ingredient.

The Senior QA Manager is a hands-on key leadership position reporting to the VP, Food Safety & Quality. This position oversees the QA/QC and Sanitation functions for a three shift, five-day, Operation. The Senior QA Manager is the host and over sees all plant external and internal audits (e.g., SQF, Gluten Free, USDA PEEPEV, Halal, Kosher, State, Federal, select customer and TCFBI Compliance audits), as well as directing and coordinating all daily sanitation activities within the processing facility. In addition, this position manages the department budget and related spending, trains team members and participates in continuous improvement with strong collaboration lines to the Plant Manager and Operations Leader.

You'll thrive in this position if you are:

• A Natural People Leader: you are adept at providing others with a clear direction, helping them see though the weeds. You naturally recruit, motivate, develop, and empower others while setting the gold standard yourself.
  Driven by results: you're conscientious and persistent about delivering timely, high-quality deliverables and performing all job functions safely while following instructions.
• Adaptable: you're at ease in a fast-paced environment and able to effortlessly change direction when priorities shift, learning to perform new tasks as required for business needs and willing to work various shifts and extended hours if necessary.
• Improvement Focused: you never turn off the thought "how can I do this better or faster?".

Here's more of what you'll get to do:

• Manage the quality and food safety programs.
• Manage the Quality and Sanitation department budgets.
• Manage and schedule Quality Assurance staff in support of the production schedule.
• Manage in house Association of Official Analytical Chemists (AOAC) assessed laboratory.
• Development of and participation in continuous improvement actions/initiatives.
• Oversee the development, implementation, and maintenance of sanitation food safety and pest control programs.
• Review and, as needed, revise the Master Cleaning Schedule, work instructions, training, documentation, and compliance audits.

What we require:

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in Manufacturing Quality Assurance, bakery plant preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience as a Quality Assurance Manager.
• Experience with Formal food safety training.
• Experience with Internal and external manufacturing food and safety audits.
• HACCP, PCQI and SQF Certified.
• Experience with Chemical Training.
• Technical writing skills; experience writing processes and SOPs.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with Quality Management Systems.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Bachelor of Science degree in Food Science or related scientific field.

What we prefer

• Bilingual in English and Spanish.

What we offer:

• Eligible for annual bonus
• Vacation and sick time
• Medical, Dental & Vision
• 401K with company match
• 25%-35% discount when dining as a guest
• Discounted cheesecake purchase program
• Annual stipend for dining in our restaurants

About the Company:

Named to FORTUNE Magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work For®" list every year since 2014, The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated is a leader in experiential dining. We are culinary-forward and relentlessly focused on hospitality. Delicious, memorable experiences created by passionate people-this defines who we are and where we are going.

We currently own and operate 353 restaurants throughout the United States and Canada under brands including The Cheesecake Factory®, North Italia®, Flower Child® and a collection of other FRC brands. Internationally, 34 The Cheesecake Factory® restaurants operate under licensing agreements.

Our bakery division operates two facilities that produce quality cheesecakes and other baked products for our restaurants, international licensees and third-party bakery customers.

We are committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming workplace for all. We welcome applicants from a wide variety of identities, ideas, perspectives, backgrounds and experiences to apply. The Cheesecake Factory offers reasonable accommodations to job applicants with disabilities.

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Salary : $140,000 - $155,000