What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality and Food Safety Manager - Headland, AL position at Archer Daniels Midland?
Quality and Food Safety Manager - Headland, AL
This is a full-time, exempt position.
The Quality and Food Safety Manager is responsible for managing the site quality and food safety program for our Headland, AL peanut processing facility and reports to the Plant Manager.
This plant operates twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
Essential Job Functions:
ADM requires the successful completion of a background check.
'ACJIND' REF:110269BR
This is a full-time, exempt position.
The Quality and Food Safety Manager is responsible for managing the site quality and food safety program for our Headland, AL peanut processing facility and reports to the Plant Manager.
This plant operates twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
Essential Job Functions:
- Provides leadership, support, and guidance to ensure that Food Safety/Quality requirements are met.
- Manages, plans, implements, and continuously improves the Food Safety/Quality divisional programs.
- Enforce Quality goals and KPIs, Food Safety/Quality, maintain Food Safety plan, and supports Operations for continuous improvement.
- Ensure the processes and systems are adequate to implement, achieve, and maintain 3rd party certifications (i.e., GMP , SQF, etc.) and FDA compliance (21 CFR 507 and/or 21 CFR 117).
- Oversee usage of and provide support for information technology systems (i.e., Policy Tech, APeCS, GEMINI, etc.)
- Manages the Food Safety/Quality Team
- Maintenance and maintaining of laboratory equipment
- Work and communicate with the Plant Manager (dotted line reporting) and Superintendent on any quality problems, or issues that arise.
- Excellent communication, problem solving, and good decision-making skills are required.
- The ability to provide motivation to direct reports, and demonstrate leadership qualities to all plant personnel is needed.
- Active participation in and contribution to performance excellence implementation
- Preferred 4 year degree or equivalent 7 years of Food Safety experience in a Food manufacturing and laboratory environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required. Must be able to communicate and interact with all levels of the organization, including senior management, customers, and regulatory officials.
- Positive leadership attributes to help drive employee development, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Demonstrated experience actively participating in and contributing to performance excellence implementations.
- Employees in this position working at this location are [or may be] exposed to various potential chemical and food allergens due to the nature of our business and the requirements of the job. If there is any reason such exposure would interfere with your ability to perform this role or work at the location, please notify the hiring manager.
- Employees in this position may be required to perform work at heights, climb ladders, stairs, indoors and outdoors in various weather conditions, walking, standing or sitting for extended periods of time as well as wear a respirator as needed.
ADM requires the successful completion of a background check.
'ACJIND' REF:110269BR