Quality Assurance Manager
Parrish and Heimbecker
- Springbrook, AB
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Manage the HAACP safety program, act as a HAACP team leader.
- Responsible for maintaining BRC/GFSI certification.
- Provide leadership developing and directing QA and quality improvement initiatives for all company products and services.
- Perform internal QA audits that are compliant with corporate policies, practices, and procedures.
- Collaborate with technical sales representatives to ensure full customer satisfaction with products and services.
- Establish and maintain a QA program for monitoring supplier quality, including audits, controls, and other qualifiers.
- Support new product development, SRED projects, and continuous improvement and by integrating quality control tools (e.g. Lean, Six Sigma, etc.) into processes.
- Promote and advocate quality achievement and performance improvement.
- Act as liaison with customer auditors and assume responsibility for ensuring corrective actions with customer specifications.
- Ensure ongoing compliance with local, national, and international standards and legislation.
- Coach staff to adopt and incorporate quality methods into their work.
- Create and maintain QA control documentation.
- Identify relevant QA training needs and opportunities.
- University degree in Food Science, Chemistry, Microbiology or related fields.
- Minimum 3 years of direct work experience in a Supervisory role in QA systems, regulations, guidelines, and associated standards preferably in flour milling or grain processing industry.
- Working knowledge and experience using flour mill lab equipment and in various testing including rheological and end use applications.
- Training in BRC, FSMA and/or SFCR (Safe Food for Canadians Regulations)
- Training or certifications in baking science and technology
- Must possess excellent communication skills for liaising and communicating with vendors, customers, and internal departments.
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