AddressRequisition ID: 181024
Career Group: Distribution Centre Management
Job Category: N/A
Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%
Job Type: Full-Time
Country: Canada (CA)
Province: Alberta
City: Rocky View County
Location: 5284 Alberta Central Kitchen
Postal Code: T4A 3N4
Our family of 131,000 employees and franchise affiliates share a collective passion for delivering exceptional shopping experiences and amazing food to all our customers. Our mission is to nurture the things that make life better - great experiences, families, communities, and our employees. We are a family nurturing families.
A proudly Canadian company, we started in a small town in Nova Scotia but we are now in communities of all sizes across this great country. With over 1,600 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawtons Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family.
Ready to Make an impact?
Merchandising - Central Alberta Kitchens, located in Rocky View County, AB, has an opening for a Quality Assurance Manager. This is an exciting opportunity that will be responsible for overseeing, assuring compliance to, and continuously improving Food Safety and Quality Management Systems for this site. This will be achieved through direct management of the Food Safety/Quality team at the site, developing and improving process, revising, and developing Preventive Control Plans (PCP) and HACCP plans, conducting risk assessments, and verifying compliance to established metrics or customer requirements. This position will also facilitate customer complaint investigations, food safety investigations and the corrective/preventive action processes. Additionally, this position will lead the plant team to obtain certification to one of the Global Food Safety Initiative recognized schemes.
Here's where you'll be focusing:
• Lead the site food safety programs, regulatory compliance and GFSI certification
• Advance the organization's food safety and quality policy and procedures at the site to establish a compliant food safety culture
• Keep senior site and corporate leaders informed and current on quality and food safety issues related to the facility
• Facilitate determination of root cause and drive corrective and preventive actions at the site
• Proactively maintain and continue to improve plant quality and food safety systems such as PCPs, Health Canada Listeria Policy, GMPs and all other applicable programs
• Maintain FSEP requirements for prerequisite programs and HACCP plans (verification, validation, logging of changes, and review of programs annually or as changes occur
• Drive the implementation of a GFSI scheme at the facility and maintain certification
• Understand CFIA and Health Canada's food safety investigation, risk assessment and recall processes and execute if required
• Review and participate in the development of SOPs and SSOPs for all aspects of the business at the site
• Develop food safety measurements and metrics to determine improvement in key deliverables
• Provide data analysis, trending and reports to senior site and corporate management
• Prioritize work and projects to meet site, customer and corporate requirements/demands
• Train plant personnel in TQM philosophies, SPC, HACCP, GMP, and monitor compliance.
• Document standards, specifications, procedures, and monitor compliance
• Develop, in conjunction with Corporate Food Safety, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and reporting systems
• Participate in development of strategic plans for the operation, with accountability for results
• Maintain active and collaborative participation as part of the plant management team
• Develop validation systems to provide a scientific basis for program and product parameters
• Directly manage a multi-level Quality Assurance team of employees
• Perform proficiency testing/evaluation of Quality Assurance staff
• Work after hours or on off-shifts if needed
• Identify and report to senior site and Corporate Food Safety management any and all concerns (perceived or otherwise) regarding food safety and quality
• Develop, conduct and assist in training of manufacturing staff as required
• Troubleshoot and solve quality and food safety issues at the facility
• Ensure quality, product safety, plant sanitation, pest control, and regulatory standards are met
What you have to offer:
• Bachelor level Degree in Food Science, Microbiology, Quality Assurance, or related degree
• Minimum of 5 - 7 years experience in Quality Assurance/Food Safety discipline within the food manufacturing industry with the following:
o Experience in a Ready-to-Eat (RTE) product processing/manufacturing facility
o Experience troubleshooting potential food safety and quality problems at the plant level
o Experience developing and managing food safety management systems
o 3 years experience in a Quality Assurance or Food Safety Leadership role(s)
o 3 years experience training and implementation of TQM, SPC, HACCP, structured Risk Assessment and Corrective Action/Root Cause Analysis processes, vendor qualification, and customer requirement auditing
• Experience leading food safety programs at federally regulated establishments under the Safe Food for Canadians Act and Regulations (SFCR)
• Experience managing and implementing GFSI schemes and the successful oversight/implementation of a GFSI standard within a food manufacturing facility, ideally in ready to eat food categories
• Proficient use of Microsoft Office Suite
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Inquisitive and analytical abilities to solve production quality and food safety issues
We offer teammates competitive total compensation packages that will vary by role and location. Some websites share our job opportunities and may provide salary estimates without our knowledge. These estimates are based on similar jobs and postings for general comparison, but these numbers are not provided by or monitored for accuracy by our organization. We look forward to discussing the specific compensation details relevant to this role with candidates who are selected to move forward in the recruitment process.
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