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Post Holdings, Inc.

Quality and Food Safety Manager

Post Holdings, Inc., Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

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Overview

Business Unit Overview: Headquartered in Lakeville, Minn., Post Consumer Brands, a business unit of Post Holdings, Inc., is dedicated to providing people and their pets with delicious food choices for every taste and budget. The company’s portfolio includes cereals and other products such as Honey Bunches of Oats, PEBBLES, Grape-Nuts, Malt-O-Meal, Peter Pan peanut butter, Nutrish, Kibbles ’n Bits and 9Lives dog and cat food. The company is committed to high standards of quality and to its values, with the goal to make lives better by making delicious food accessible for all. Brand: At Post Consumer Brands, we’ve focused on showing up for families at breakfast and beyond, expanding from cereals to snacks, peanut butter, and pet food to feed every part of the family. As the brand has evolved, we continue to grow across grocery and pet markets and seek people who care about good food, thoughtful work, and meaningful impact. This phase is still new, and that makes it exciting. We are growing across grocery and pet sectors and are looking for people who care about good food, thoughtful work, and the kind of impact that stretches from store shelves to kitchen tables and food bowls. Location Description

The Post Consumer Brands plant in Asheboro, NC, features modern cereal production technology and has quadrupled in size since 2007. Asheboro’s 230+ team members produce our newest and most innovative cereals. The town is conveniently located near the Atlantic Ocean and the Blue Ridge Mountains. Responsibilities

Overview: Responsible for managing the plant Quality and Food Safety program and QFS staff at a grocery plant. Builds and maintains a culture of quality and food safety through continuous improvement and regulatory compliance. Assists Operations in identifying and implementing quality improvements. Assists Engineering in identifying and implementing structural and mechanical designs to support food safety and GMP practices. Ensures compliance with applicable quality, food safety, and regulatory standards. Supports, implements, and maintains food safety, food safety culture, and quality practices as required through GFSI. This role has shared responsibility as a BRC practitioner and/or back-up practitioner. Responsibilities and Accountabilities: Ensure that all raw materials, process parameters, sanitation procedures, and finished products comply with Customer, Company, State and Federal standards. Must have HACCP certification and meet the requirements for PCQI and BRC Practitioner responsibilities. Provide managerial and technical leadership to Quality Assurance technicians and other appropriate plant QFS staff. Manage and audit quality programs and maintain proper documentation. Administer hold product dispositions. Coordinate release and/or removal of hold product through proper channels. Assure that HACCP/Food Safety plans are fully implemented and monitored for all processing lines. Validate changes to food safety fundamentals (prerequisite programs). Assure the training of employees in noncompliance, metal detection, GMPs, preventive controls, color code, sanitation procedures, net weight, and quality requirements. Coordinate with Engineering and Maintenance in GMP compliance during construction activities. Work with vendors to correct noncompliance issues concerning ingredients and supplies. Provide technical assistance on chemicals and sanitation protocol; verify cleaning methods to control microbial, allergenic, and organic cross contamination risks. Support retrieval of suspect product involved in a product recall. Direct implementation and follow-up of corrective actions from audits and inspections by customers, regulators, FDA, etc. Collect quality data and develop reports for business units. Research and approve temporary approvals and R&D trials. Investigate consumer and customer complaints and provide written communication regarding findings. Qualifications

Education : Minimum of 4-year B.S. degree in Food Science, Microbiology or related field. Experience : Minimum of 7-10 years’ experience in food manufacturing, preferably in Quality Assurance or Production. Minimum of 3 years supervisory experience. Working knowledge of HACCP, FSMA requirements, GMPs, quality systems, and experience leading a team in a manufacturing environment. Knowledge of FDA and local regulatory requirements. Other Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities : Excellent management and supervisory skills; strong facilitation, communication (written and oral), and training abilities. Ability to develop curricula. Problem-solving capability with implementation of effective solutions. Working knowledge of statistics and analytical problem-solving tools. English language proficiency. Experience with thermal processes is preferred.

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