Job description
Business Unit Overview:
Job Activities/Duties
Qualifications:
Experience:
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Headquartered in Lakeville, Minn., Post Consumer Brands, a business unit of Post Holdings Inc., is focused on providing delicious food choices for every taste and budget. As a company committed to high standards of quality and to our values, we are driven by one idea: To make lives better by making delicious food accessible for all.
Brand:
The company’s portfolio ranges from iconic brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats
®, Grape-Nuts
® and PEBBLES
™ cereals, as well as Peter Pan
® peanut butter to the top-selling Malt-O-Meal
® brand of value ready-to-eat cereals and more. Our business is growing and that’s where you come in. Our company is a hearty mix of ambitious people who want to make great things happen.
Location Description:
Post Consumer Brands corporate headquarters in Lakeville, Minn. is about 20 miles south of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Lakeville has all the benefits of smaller town living with access to everything a large metropolitan area has to offer. Join more than 400 team members collaborating on the two-building campus to help put breakfast on the tables of millions of consumers in North America.
Responsibilities:
The Sr. Quality and Food Safety Manager is responsible for the leadership and management of Manufacturing Quality Assurance, Food Safety and Sanitation programs for Post Consumer Brands. The incumbent works cross-functionally with assigned manufacturing plant locations to assure compliance with Post Consumer Brands quality and food safety programs, including reduction and control of product noncompliance, HACCP/Food Safety Plans, sanitation, cGMPs and product quality. The Sr. Quality and Food Safety Manager also works with Plant Leadership on the identification and implementation of quality improvements and with Corporate Engineering on the review, identification and implementation of sanitary design principles for PCB. The Sr. Quality and Food Safety Manager, under the direction of the Director, Quality & Food Safety, leads Quality and Food Safety (QFS) program and system execution, assuring manufacturing plants compliance with all PCB and Regulatory QFS standards and completes all job duties in a manner that fully supports plant safety and environmental requirements and practices.
Job Activities/Duties
- Provide leadership to assigned manufacturing plants in areas of product quality and food safety to create a World Class Quality and Food Safety culture.
- Direct the activities of Quality Assurance and Food Safety personnel at assigned company locations and/or Lakeville QFS subject matter experts.
- Deliver company and department objectives by utilizing the tools of Precision Leadership. Responsible for making sure that quality assurance and food safety is incorporated in all corporate metrics, plans and policies.
- Direct or participate in the performance and analysis of special projects.
- Work with each assigned plant to develop and manage annual budget.
- Establish systems measured by quantifiable metrics that ensure compliance with food and drug laws and internal and external specifications.
- Integrate new facilities, processes, products and packaging into Post Consumer Brands operations as needed.
- Oversee the interviewing, hiring, onboarding, goal development and personal development plans for Quality Assurance and Food Safety personnel at assigned company locations.
Qualifications:
Education:
Minimum of 4 year B.S. degree in Food Science, Microbiology or related scientific field.
Experience:
Minimum of 10 years experience in food manufacturing business, preferably in the Quality Assurance or Production environment. Minimum of 7 years supervisory experience. Must have an extensive knowledge of HACCP/Food Safety Plans, GMPs, sanitation, quality systems, and experience working with and leading teams in a manufacturing environment. Must possess a thorough understanding of FDA, state and local regulatory requirements.
Skills:
Effective management and supervisory skills. Must have excellent facilitating skills in a team environment, and effective communication skills, both written and oral. Training skills with ability to develop own curriculum. Must be a demonstrated problem solver with the ability to implement effective solutions. Working knowledge of statistical and other advanced analytical problem solving tools. Must be able to read, write and communicate in the English language.
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