Corporate Food Safety – Quality Assurance Manager

🕒 July 21

🌽 Illinois, Iowa, +5 more states – Remote

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

• Lead Food Safety and Quality Assurance regulatory compliance and operational excellence across Smithfield Foods facilities • Audit existing procedures, written policies, enforcement, implementation and regulatory reports • Author, review and update food safety and quality policies • Ensure compliance with USDA and FDA regulations, customer contract requirements, Safe Quality Foods 2000 system level 3 code and corporate direction • Drive adoption of scientifically rigorous, cost-effective technologies with Operations Divisional Vice Presidents • Provide specialized training to Food Safety and Quality Assurance staff and plant employees • Support facilities during customer audits and regulatory assessments • Deliver 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, scientifically dependable system improvements • Perform continuous data analysis to identify trends and troubleshoot problematic systems or departments • Drive employee development and coaching and foster a positive employee experience • Travel primarily to process facilities and occasionally attend customer, sales or professional meetings

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year college or university and 5+ years of relevant experience in the food industry; or equivalent combination of education and experience • 2+ years of demonstrated experience in team management/development or project leadership required • Proficiency in food manufacturing processes, quality assurance principles, food science and meat processing, SPC and statistics • Demonstrated experience using continuous improvement tools and fundamentals • 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 using 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; ability to read and write in English • Ability to work well with others in a fast-paced, dynamic environment • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience required; at least 4 years in a management capacity within a manufacturing environment under USDA preferred • Ability to work alternate shifts and some weekends • Ability to occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds • Fundamental mathematical skills for managing Key Performance Indicators • Ability to deliver information to diverse audiences • Previous multi-site responsibility and perishable experience a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement • Relocation package available • Comprehensive total rewards package • Equal opportunity workplace • Reasonable accommodations for disabilities