Corporate Food Safety – Quality Assurance Manager

🕒 July 21

🌽 Illinois, Iowa, +3 more states – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote 🌾 Iowa – Remote 🌪️ Kansas – Remote ❄️ Minnesota – Remote 🏰 Missouri – Remote

💵 $115k - $150k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔧 QA Engineer (Quality Assurance)

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Smithfield Foods

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1936

🏭 Manufacturing

🌾 Agriculture

🍽️ Food & Beverage

Manufacturing • Agriculture • Food & Beverage

Smithfield Foods is a leading global food company and the world's largest pork processor and hog producer. The company offers high-quality meat products under a variety of popular brand names, including Smithfield, Eckrich, Nathan’s Famous, and Carando. Smithfield Foods is renowned for its innovative approaches, combining tradition with technology, to drive the future of food. The company is committed to sustainability, supporting communities, and producing safe, affordable, and high-quality food products. In addition to its core operations, Smithfield Foods actively engages in community support endeavors, such as addressing food insecurity and supporting veterans.

📋 Description

• Ensure food safety and quality systems are scientifically defensible and compliant with USDA regulations, policies, directives, and facility notices • Audit written policies, policy enforcement and implementation, product environments, and regulatory reports • Author, review, and update food safety and quality policies for USDA, FDA, customer contract, Safe Quality Foods 2000 system level 3, and corporate requirements • Train Food Safety and Quality Assurance staff and plant employees • Support facilities during customer audits and regulatory assessments • Provide expertise on smokehouse calibration and operations, sanitary equipment design, microbiological harborage identification, quality plans, and product regulatory requirements • Research emerging industry issues through online resources, scientific publications, and workshops • Identify and implement cost-effective, scientifically supportable solutions • Analyze, interpret, and evaluate in-process analytics data using scientific principles • Author and develop cost-effective system improvements • Perform continuous data analysis to identify trends and troubleshoot problematic systems or departments • Collaborate with Operations Divisional Vice Presidents to adopt cost-effective technologies • Drive continuous improvement initiatives and plant- and company-wide objectives • Lead employee development and coaching to support a positive employee experience

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year college or university and 5+ years of relevant food-industry experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience • 2+ years of demonstrated team management/development or project leadership experience • Proficiency in food manufacturing processes, quality assurance principles, food science, meat processing, SPC, and statistics • Experience using continuous improvement tools and fundamentals to drive results • Relevant experience with government regulatory requirements in food processing, including USDA and FDA, required • Ability to document expertise in design and execution of quality/technical work • Proficiency with Microsoft Office, inventory software, manufacturing software, and SAP • Strong leadership, decision-making, problem-solving, writing, interpersonal, communication, planning, organizational, multitasking, and project management skills • Must be able to travel up to 70% of the time • Must be able to complete required applicable forms in English, including reading and writing in English • Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and build strong working relationships • Previous multi-site responsibility and perishable experience a plus • At least 4 years in a USDA-regulated manufacturing management capacity preferred • Ability to work alternate shifts and some weekends • Ability to deliver information to diverse audiences • Fundamental mathematical skills for managing KPIs • Ability to work in wet, humid, hot, cold, noisy, chemical, and mechanically active plant environments; hearing protection required • Occasionally lift or move up to 50 pounds • Frequently stand, walk, use stairs, climb ladders, reach, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, talk, and hear

🏖️ Benefits

• Relocation Package Available • Robust, flexible and affordable benefit plans and programs • Medical plans • Be Well programs at no additional cost, including support for elective surgeries, weight loss, mental health, cancer, kidney disease, diabetes, smoking cessation, asthma, and maternity management • Comprehensive training and professional development programs • LinkedIn Learning on-demand courses, professional certificates, and skill-based training • Guild tuition assistance for English language learning, high school completion, and degree programs • Leadership development initiatives • Smithfield Scholarship Program for employees’ children