Job Description
Judge Direct Placement is seeking a Food Safety & Quality Assurance Manager in Modesto, CA area!
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the primary FSQA leader, overseeing the implementation, verification, and validation of food safety programs (e.g., HACCP, SSOP).
- Ensure compliance with GFSI standards, company internal audit requirements, and all applicable food safety regulations.
- Manage relationships with regulatory agencies (USDA, FSIS, AMS) and act as the site’s primary liaison.
- Retain and evaluate non-conforming products against customer, regulatory, and internal specifications; determine and execute product disposition, including release decisions.
- Lead the implementation, maintenance, and enforcement of USDA regulations and company FSQA programs, including environmental monitoring, GMPs, pest control, allergen control, and finished product compliance.
- Oversee all product monitoring programs to ensure alignment with legal, customer, and company requirements.
- Supervise and ensure competency of all personnel, visitors, and contractors in maintaining food safety and quality standards.
- Design and coordinate training programs in partnership with HR, Operations, Sanitation, Maintenance, and FSQA teams to promote a strong food safety culture.
- Lead root cause investigations for pathogen-related issues, partnering with Operations to resolve processing, sanitation, and maintenance deficiencies.
- Drive investigations into product quality non-conformance and customer/consumer complaints; implement corrective and preventive actions.
- Collaborate with Operations leadership and regulatory bodies to address and resolve non-compliance issues; provide reports and trend analysis to corporate leadership.
- Evaluate and continuously improve FSQA programs and procedures to ensure alignment with regulatory and company standards.
- Manage FSQA data systems and reporting; analyze trends and communicate insights for continuous improvement.
- Lead cross-functional projects focused on enhancing product safety, quality, and process efficiency, including new product commercialization initiatives.
- Monitor and drive performance against FSQA key performance indicators (KPIs) to achieve corporate objectives.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree required
- 5+ years of work experience in food processing with supervisory and management experience for food safety and quality systems.
- Proficient use of Microsoft Office products is required and experience with SAP and enterprise data management systems is strongly preferred.
- Previous managerial experience supervising salaried and non-salaried team members is required.
- Demonstrated proficiency leading and managing cross-functional teams is required.
Job Tags
Full time, For contractors, Work experience placement, Work at office