Responsible for maintaining and establishing, implementing, and directing quality assurance and sanitation efforts in all department and suppliers.
• Establishes and maintains quality assurance and excellent sanitation standards, procedures, and controls.
• Works directly with manufacturing to implement and manage quality assurance activities and to enforce requirements as specified by raw ingredients, package specifications, and regulatory agencies
• Works with research and development during new product start-ups and establishes checkpoints for testing new products
• Initiates corrective actions
• Manage the material review board meeting process to maintain quality assurance, optimize usage of raw materials and reduce work-in-process
• Lead factory continuous improvement efforts and quality assurance processes to meet organizational goals and strategies
• Monitor and analyze plant internal auditing processes to drive quality assurance in manufacturing operations
• Manage departmental financial and resource budget
• Develop training in quality, problem solving and continuous improvement activities to raise the level of quality systems competence in manufacturing operations