Quality Manager

The Quality Manager will lead in managing, enforcing, and implementing all our quality programs within a premix manufacturing plant primarily for the premix and finished feed in the livestock industries. This role is responsible for ensuring safe animal feed is produced in a manufacturing environment that blends highly concentrated vitamin, trace mineral and medicated products for livestock and pet premixes. You will report directly to the Sr. Quality Manager.

Experience and Education Required:

• Bachelor's degree
• 3-5 years of progressive quality assurance experience in feed, food, or related fields of operation.
• Previous supervisory / regulatory experience
• PCQI and/or HACCP certified
• Experience working with 3 rd party quality management systems such as SQF, FAMI-QS, SFSF, etc.

Competencies & Other Skills:

• Knowledge of regulatory requirements to include HACCP, Animal Feed Safety Plans, GMP's.
• Strong communication/interpersonal/training/coaching skills.
• Ability to present independently or while collaborating with team members.
• High attention to detail, organizational skills, and ability to multitask and adapt to quickly changing priorities across multiple projects.
• Strong writing, analytical, problem solving, and critical thinking skills.
• Analytical problem solving/root cause analysis.
• Ability to be tactical, insightful and act strategically.
• Ability to handle customer complaints.
• Experience leading plant employees toward an improved food safe culture.
• Proficient with the Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Power BI).

% of Total Job Duty or Area of Responsibility

50%

• To ensure product safety and quality systems implementation, training, assessment, and compliance.
• Lead the facility Quality Incident Management Team by conducting root cause and corrective/preventive action analysis of customer complaints and internal issues related to manufacturing errors.
• Creating, updating, and implementing standard operating procedures (SOPs).
• Proactively manage and resolve product safety and regulatory issues in collaboration with the corporate quality team.
• Provide targeted follow-up on claims and complaints.
• Developing and overseeing internal and/or regulatory compliance of the sampling and testing program for raw materials, medicated and non-medicated finished goods to ensure product specifications are met.
• Develop and lead the Management of Change (MOC) process for the facility.

30%

• Develop a working knowledge of premix quality control, systems, processes, and procedures as related to plant manufacturing.
• Act as a champion for product safety/quality; monitor and repost on trends alerting the Director and/or Sr. Quality Mgr.
• Train, implement, and enforce customer-specific quality requirements - primarily relating, but not limited to, toll milling contracts.

10%

• Lead assigned projects in critical process monitoring and capability; working with operations across the enterprise to establish new product/process measurements and preventive control at the source.

10%

• Tracks and drives quality related issues to completion.
• Completes internal audits/self-assessments and works with the Director and/or Sr. Quality Mgr. to resolve issues.
• Quality point of contact for regulatory and/or customer audits.

Salary: $79, 200 - $118, 800

1st shift

About Land O'Lakes, Inc.

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