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Position: Director Quality Assurance

Location: Mississauga

Our client, a dynamic food manufacturer is currently looking to hire a Director of Quality Assurance responsible for the integrity, design, and management of the company’s Food Safety and Quality Management System (FSQMS), and certifications.

Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

- Design, implement, and continuously improve the quality management system and food safety program including establishing measurement methods, KPIs, and improvement priorities and plans

- Ensure the achievement of BRC certification through the BRC audit process

- Be responsible for leading the HACCP and all Food Safety programs

- Create, maintain, and execute cross functional QA processes/solutions / support for new product introductions (NPD) and commercialization

- Oversee the product complaint process

- Lead and maintain a collaborative cross functional approach to customer quality related initiatives, communications, and enquiries

- Design, lead, and maintain company’s product recall process that forms part of the food safety program

- Design and lead internal quality and food safety training and education programs

- Lead customer specification compliance and assess, develop, and implement process and methodologies required to continuously reduce product variability and improve overall product quality through alignment and collaboration with various stakeholders

- Be responsible for ensuring the QA team, in conjunction with plant personnel members continually monitor and improve appropriate GMPs and execute accurate and efficient quality testing within company standards

- Be responsible for ensuring all inbound material sampling and testing methodologies and documentation are validated and ensure compliance

- Ensure the company’s FSQMS is built to ensure their products comply with federal, state, provincial, and local regulations in the markets where products are produced, distributed, and sold

- Champion the continuous improvement (CI) journey through commodity and current process/SOP evaluation

- Make decisions with a natural bias for action while assuring food safety, regulatory, and quality requirements are met along with a balanced consideration for the needs of the business and cross functional stakeholders

- Smoothly navigates and influences QA product integrity decisions across all departments and stakeholders

- Be responsible for development of QA departmental staff in the areas of QA, food safety, health and safety and training and education

- Be responsible for the development and management of overall QA budget within approved parameters

- Travel to Western Canada production facility as required

- Promote and comply with company’s H&S policies and procedures including the wearing of PPE, Lockout/Tagout, WHMIS, etc.

Experience, Qualifications, and Educational Requirements:

- Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Food Science, Engineering, or related technical field, Master’s Degree within a related discipline is considered an asset

- 7-10 years’ experience in a quality/food safety role managing area such as food safety, laboratory management, quality management systems, food process engineering, product commercialization, and commodity specification within a fast-paced food manufacturing environment

- 7 years’ experience managing/developing succession ready QA teams across multiple facilities

- Demonstrated successful delivery of HACCP/GFSI (SQF) /PCQI/BRC compliance and Audit experience

- Clear passion for food safety

- Demonstrated success delivering QA requirements via new product, innovation, and commercialization teams cross functionally

- Proven Continuous improvement CI methodology experience (Lean/CI tools, TPM)

- Practical knowledge and detailed understanding of food law

- Integrated sanitation and pest control management experience

- Excellent communicator across and within disciplines. Proven collaborator, influencer, coach, educator, decision maker, and conflict mediator

- Comfortable influencing and building collaborative relationships at all levels of the organization and with regulators, suppliers, and customers

- Appetite for pushing the status quo on quality and food safety standards through analytics, measurement, and critical thinking

- Project and change manager who enjoys building just the right amount of process and structure

- Ability and willingness to travel (10% North America)

- Excellent computer and ERP abilities

- Ability to work overtime as required

Our client offers a dynamic environment, great opportunity to make a difference and full remuneration package.

Please send your resume in Word format to Rona Geringer at [email protected].

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