Kelly Services is seeking a Quality Assurance Manager in Jay, OK!
Job Title: QA Manager
Location: Jay, OK 74346
Type: Salary
Hours: Office 8:00 am - 5:00 pm M-F
DIRECT HIRE OPPORTUNITY
Summary
Plans, implements, and coordinates QA / HACCP activities to assure compliance with quality standards and regulatory requirements. Schedules, directs and supervises QA staff. Interface with USDA and company management. CPG experience needed. Performs and/or coordinates special QA projects as directed. Plans, coordinates, and directs quality assurance to ensure quality production of products consistent with established standards by performing the following duties personally or through subordinate supervisors.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
Management

Monitor product quality directly and through subordinates to assure product quality is in compliance with corporate and regulatory requirements

Monitor food safety through daily HACCP activities

Monitor attendance, performance, and competence of all assigned subordinates while also provide training, disciplinary action, and promotion recommendations

Direct technical and administrative workers engaged in quality assurance activities

Compliance & Maintenance

Review all data obtained during all quality assurance activities to ensure consistency with company policies and procedures

Ensure accuracy of HACCP records and report data related to quality, maintaining complete, and orderly files of all data collected.

Performs quality engineering reviews of design documentation for compliance with stated requirements, including vendor quality manuals and company quality records

Schedule audits and manage food safety systems to maintain an audit ready status

Maintain SQF program in absence of SQF practitioner

Manage the Company pest control systems

Maintains a working knowledge of USDA and industry quality assurance codes and standards

Comply with policies and regulations regarding safety, food safety, environmental sustainability, animal welfare, ingredients, and any related item

Strategy

Assist in the furtherance of an increased "quality consciousness" and "food safety awareness" among contacts through professionalism, integrity, diplomacy and an uncompromising commitment to quality in principle and practice.

Formulate and maintain quality and food safety objectives complementary to corporate policies and goals.

Apply statistical process control (SPC) methods for analyzing data to evaluate the current process and process changes

Evaluate and decide whether to accept a product or continue business with a vendor based on reviews by the quality assurance manager and/or purchasing manager

Develop new approaches to solve problems identified during quality assurance activities and HACCP reassessments

Design and implement quality assurance and food safety training programs to key personnel in conjunction with managers

Investigate and improve based on customer complaints regarding quality and food safety

Communication

Provide weekly and monthly summaries of product quality and food safety compliance to the appropriate operating managers and Senior Management

Prepare and present technical and program information to the management team

Effectively and competently interface with the USDA in the areas regulatory compliance

Establish and maintain a good working relationship with operations management personnel throughout the Company

Coordinate through the Sales Department product development and finished specs to meet customer needs

Keep management team abreast of significant issues or developments identified during quality assurance activities and actions being taken to improve quality and food safety

Perform other projects, initiatives, and tasks as directed by leadership

Supervisory Responsibilities
Manages one manager, two QA Supervisors, 11 QA techs and 3 Process Control Techs at the Fresno and Stockton Facilities. Is responsible for the overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of these units. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
Qualifications:
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee is occasionally required to sit and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Technical Experience:

Must be able to read and write English.

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.

Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.

Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of AS400 Database software; Kronos Timekeeping System: Excel Spreadsheet software and Microsoft Word Processing software.

Minimum Education & Experience:

Master's degree (M. A.) or equivalent; plus four to ten years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

HACCP Certification, Driver's License (with clean DMV report)