Quality and Food Safety Manager - Dawson, GA

Archer Daniels Midland

Quality and Food Safety Manager - Dawson, GA
This is an exempt level position.

Job Summary:
The QFS (Quality and Food Safety) Manager is responsible for the daily quality control and quality analysis of the facility’s inbound/outbound products and ingredients and is responsible for managing the site’s food safety program. The plant operates 24-hours a day, seven days a week. The lab covers all shifts necessary to operate the facility.

This position reports to the Plant Manager.

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.

Job Qualifications:

Preferred 4 year degree or equivalent 7 year Food Safety experience in a Food manufacturing and laboratory environment.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills a must. Ability to communicate and interact with all levels of the organization, including senior management, customers, and regulatory officials as needed.

Working Conditions:

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 this location, please notify the hiring manager.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Excited about this role but don’t think you meet every requirement listed? We encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this role or another one of our openings.

ADM requires the successful completion of a background check.

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