Job Overview
Employment Type
Full-time
Compensation
Salary
Range $43,500.00 - $134,500.00
Benefits
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Paid Time Off
Retirement Plan
Professional Development
Employee assistance program
Paid holidays
Job Description
This position is with a leading organization dedicated to ensuring the highest standards in food safety and total quality management. The company operates within the food manufacturing and distribution industry, specializing in delivering safe and quality food products to consumers while adhering to rigorous food safety regulations and standards. The organization is committed to continuous improvement, regulatory compliance, and developing a competent team through robust people strategies. This role offers full-time employment and comes with a competitive salary commensurate with experience and industry standards.
The Food Safety and Total Quality Management Lead is a pivotal role focused on managing and overseeing the development, implementation, and ongoing monitoring of food safety and quality management systems within the assigned geographical location, which may include multiple districts and facilities. This role requires a strategic mindset combined with hands-on expertise to ensure compliance with all relevant regulatory requirements, including USDA, FDA, and international food safety standards such as SQF and other customer-specific requirements.
The successful candidate will lead and support site operations teams through coaching and management, enabling them to uphold the highest food safety and quality standards. This includes validating and verifying adherence to governmental food standards and implementing the sanitation programs at various facilities. The role also involves actively identifying and addressing training needs related to food safety, quality, health, and sanitation.
Additionally, this position requires collaborating with site senior management to embed continuous improvement processes into the food safety and total quality management systems, thereby enhancing their effectiveness. The role demands a proactive approach to resolving food safety and quality concerns promptly and ensuring that all procedures, including product hold processes, are properly implemented and monitored in collaboration with inventory control and regional teams.
This position offers an exciting opportunity for an experienced professional with a background in food safety regulatory environments, ideally with multi-site responsibility experience. It requires a strong foundation in food safety legislation, risk management principles, and preventive controls. The role suits individuals who are adaptable, able to prioritize and manage multiple tasks simultaneously in a fast-paced environment, and who possess excellent communication and negotiation skills, especially when dealing with site management and internal or external customers.
The role also necessitates significant fieldwork, spending up to 70% of time at warehouse sites working directly with site management teams. The physical demands include the ability to work in various environments and conditions, including challenging temperatures, and performing tasks requiring manual dexterity and mobility. The successful candidate must be a self-starter who thrives independently and is capable of responding effectively to feedback and changing demands.
Overall, this role is ideal for a dedicated professional passionate about food safety and continuous quality improvement, seeking to make a significant impact within a reputable organization that values compliance, integrity, and people development.
The Food Safety and Total Quality Management Lead is a pivotal role focused on managing and overseeing the development, implementation, and ongoing monitoring of food safety and quality management systems within the assigned geographical location, which may include multiple districts and facilities. This role requires a strategic mindset combined with hands-on expertise to ensure compliance with all relevant regulatory requirements, including USDA, FDA, and international food safety standards such as SQF and other customer-specific requirements.
The successful candidate will lead and support site operations teams through coaching and management, enabling them to uphold the highest food safety and quality standards. This includes validating and verifying adherence to governmental food standards and implementing the sanitation programs at various facilities. The role also involves actively identifying and addressing training needs related to food safety, quality, health, and sanitation.
Additionally, this position requires collaborating with site senior management to embed continuous improvement processes into the food safety and total quality management systems, thereby enhancing their effectiveness. The role demands a proactive approach to resolving food safety and quality concerns promptly and ensuring that all procedures, including product hold processes, are properly implemented and monitored in collaboration with inventory control and regional teams.
This position offers an exciting opportunity for an experienced professional with a background in food safety regulatory environments, ideally with multi-site responsibility experience. It requires a strong foundation in food safety legislation, risk management principles, and preventive controls. The role suits individuals who are adaptable, able to prioritize and manage multiple tasks simultaneously in a fast-paced environment, and who possess excellent communication and negotiation skills, especially when dealing with site management and internal or external customers.
The role also necessitates significant fieldwork, spending up to 70% of time at warehouse sites working directly with site management teams. The physical demands include the ability to work in various environments and conditions, including challenging temperatures, and performing tasks requiring manual dexterity and mobility. The successful candidate must be a self-starter who thrives independently and is capable of responding effectively to feedback and changing demands.
Overall, this role is ideal for a dedicated professional passionate about food safety and continuous quality improvement, seeking to make a significant impact within a reputable organization that values compliance, integrity, and people development.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor degree or in-country equivalent in science-related field
- Minimum 5-8 years experience in USDA, FDA, or equivalent regulatory agency food manufacturing or distribution environment with multi-site responsibility preferred
- Sound knowledge of relevant food safety legislation and risk management principles
- Experience with export programs desirable
- Experience with internal food safety compliance auditing, ASQ certifications a plus
- Completed HACCP training course
- Proficient in Microsoft Office including Word and Excel
- Experience developing, implementing, and maintaining SQF or equivalent certification and HACCP plans
- Ability to critically analyze processes to identify potential food safety hazards, quality and compliance defects
- Ability to negotiate and influence site management
- Demonstrated consistency, flexibility and commitment to deadlines
- Planning, organizing and execution skills
- Ability to work in changing environments and prioritize conflicting demands
- Highly developed communication skills and ability to work with various individuals
- Strong customer service skills
- Ability to manage multiple tasks comfortably
- Attention to detail
- Physical ability to perform fieldwork in warehouses and varied conditions
- Self-starter able to work independently
- Ability to perform work activities including reasoning, negotiating, instructing and persuading
- Willingness to occasionally work evenings or weekends
- Employment type full time
Job Qualifications
- Bachelor degree or equivalent in science-related field
- Minimum 5-8 years experience in USDA, FDA, or equivalent regulatory food manufacturing or distribution environment
- Sound knowledge of food safety legislation and risk management
- Experience with export programs
- Experience in internal food safety auditing, ASQ certification preferred
- Completed HACCP training
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, Word, and Excel
- Experience developing and maintaining SQF certification and HACCP plans
- Ability to critically analyze food safety hazards, quality, and compliance defects
Job Duties
- Manage and oversee the development, implementation, review, monitoring, verification, validation, and auditing of food safety and total quality management systems
- Ensure compliance with food safety, customer, quality, and regulatory requirements
- Provide support and coaching to operations to lead food safety, quality, and regulatory compliance
- Manage, validate, and verify activities related to governmental food standards and other food safety standards
- Assist in identifying training needs for food safety, quality, health, and sanitation
- Ensure closure of food safety and quality concerns and verify hold process implementation
- Assist in development and implementation of sanitation programs
- Collaborate with senior management to establish continuous improvement processes
- Perform additional duties as requested
Job Criteria
Experience
Mid Level (3-7 years)
Job Location
Your Profile Is Visible To Hiring Managers Across OysterLink.
We'll match you with best jobs
Get job offers faster
Search For More Opportunities:
How Candidates Get Hired Faster
Apply to 2–3 similar roles
Complete profile & get best matches
Check new opportunities daily
