Assistant Quality Manager Jobs

Your Role

As Assistant Quality Manager, you will be responsible for the compliance of quality and food safety regulations and policies at this multi-faceted facility. You will identify opportunities and make recommendations to simplify and streamline day to day work processes. You will have accountability for a broad range of Quality and Food Safety management, which may include Integrated Pest Management, Elevator, and Bulk loadout.

If people manager, include “As a leader and people manager, the Ardent Mills Values of trust, serving, simplicity, and safety will guide your decisions. You will listen, learn, and serve your team members. You will enable your team to deliver superior business results by constantly learning, reinventing, and challenging yourself to do better. You will inspire people to achieve things they never thought possible.”

To Succeed, You Must Be Able To

• Operate with simplicity, clarity and transparency
• Serve others with understanding, respect, and care
• Learn and apply new technology, and share your knowledge with others
• Deliver results in first-time situations by inspiring others and working to earn trust every day
• Organize, prioritize and own multiple tasks while meeting or exceeding deadlines
• Deal with and drive change

Above all you will be expected to carry out all your activities with reliability, integrity, compliance and in a safe, environmentally responsible, and efficient manner.

Your Responsibilities

• Maintain compliance with company policies, regulatory requirements, quality specifications, safety standards, and sanitation practices
• Ownership within Integrated Pest Management
• Oversee Lab Team and Product Quality Monitoring programs
• Manage the wheat pipeline to ensure wheat shipped to the mill meets customer needs, optimizes mill performance, and is in alignment with regulatory standards
• Build relationships with local customers to uncover opportunities that lead to value creation and strengthen ties between our companies
• Analyze, interpret, and implement Quality/Food Safety policies and customer standards
• Manage customer documentation, specifications, and ensure active customer support
• Maintain customer audit programs and agreed 3rd party certification   

Essential Skills And Experience

• Food Microbiology and Chemistry  
• Integrated Pest Management 
• Demonstrated ability to interact with customers and help solve problems
• Good Manufacturing Practices  
• Food Safety Plan
• Bachelor’s degree with 1 ½ -3 years or High School diploma/GED with 5 ½ -7 years of Quality Systems and Food Safety experience in flour milling or related manufacturing industry
• Knowledge of the following programs:  
• FDA and USDA Regulatory requirements 
• PCQI and HACCP certification

Good To Have

• Demonstrated understanding of Statistical Process Control and ability to complete elementary statistical analysis
• 2 years of management experience
• Knowledge of Grain Market 
• Experience teaching and training others on food safety
• Demonstrated knowledge of manufacturing processes and operations; ability to deliver aligned and effective processes
• Knowledge of GFSI Audit Standards
• Experience working effectively with customers, including solving customer problems
• Experience with project management, including applying structured approach to planning, administering and completing projects successfully

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions (With or without reasonable accommodation):

• Ability to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) as is required by the operating areas (i.e. safety glasses, protective footwear, hearing protection and, at times, a respirator)
• Indoor/outdoor environment
• Dusty environment – able to be certified for respirator use per Canada Safety Requirements
• Ability to perform work at a computer and other administrative/managerial tasks
• Elevated places, to include stairs/ladders
• Frequent moving/vibration/ or other motion of equipment/processes
• Ability to work a machine paced continuous process that operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with conditions which include:
• Noisy environment
• Heat/cold temperatures (inclement weather)
• Ability to work a rotating schedule including nights, weekends and holidays

Other Considerations

• Ability to travel 5-10%
• Willing to relocate as promotional opportunities exist throughout career
• Except where prohibited by law, all offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a pre-employment background check and/or drug test
• Must be authorized to work in Canada without sponsorship now and in the future

At Ardent Mills, everyone matters and everyone has a voice. We are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and team members and the decisions will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, aboriginality, ancestry, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, genetic information, veteran status, age, political affiliation, or any other non-merit characteristic protected by law or not. Together, celebrating our differences, we make Ardent Mills.

The preceding position description has been designed to indicate the general nature and essential duties and responsibilities of work performed by employees within this position. It may not contain a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees in this position. The description, duties, functions, and responsibilities are subject to change at the discretion of Ardent Mills.

Location:

Saskatoon SK

Address

95 - 33rd Street East, Saskatoon SK, S7K 0R8

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Employment Type

Full time