QA Manager
Baxters North America Inc · East Bernstadt, Kentucky, United States
Food and Beverage Manufacturing · 501-1,000 employees
About the role
The QA Manager is responsible for developing and implementing quality strategies, food safety systems, and sanitation protocols to ensure operational excellence. They provide technical leadership to plant operations, driving continuous improvement through audits, training, and the application of Lean principles.
What they look for
Requirements
The candidate must possess deep expertise in food safety regulations, thermal processing, and quality control systems within a manufacturing environment. Strong leadership skills are required to manage quality programs and drive organizational development.
Full description
- SUMMARY OF ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The Quality Assurance Manager is responsible for the management, development and continuous deployment of the quality strategy. This person is technically savvy with applied expertise in HACCP food safety, FDA/ USDA regulations, frozen foods production, thermal processing of Low Acid Canned Foods (LACF), principles of food science, flexible packaging, sanitation, quality assurance and quality control systems development and implementation. The QA manager must be a strong leader with such expertise that their recommendations and programs are beyond reproach.
The QA Manager provides technical expertise in the application of Lean/ Total Quality principles, processes, and tools to improve product and service quality and operational results. This position provides leadership and support to the food plant operations, aimed at producing quality products at a least cost. This activity includes quality systems development and maintenance, work instruction development, training, audits, project support, new product commissioning, and employee and organizational development. This position drives continual improvement in both quality systems and food safety and sanitation as measured by internal and external audits, and KPI goal achievement. This position will be the site specialist for Red Zone.
