Field Food Safety & Quality Manager, Naturals

Field Food Safety & Quality Manager

As a Field Food Safety & Quality Manager, you will be a key member of the Enterprise Quality and Food Safety leadership team. You will be responsible for providing leadership and interfacing between Enterprise Quality and Food Safety, plant leadership, partners, support functions and select customers. You will establish and maintain food safety and quality expertise within each facility and develop quality professionals across the organization. In this position, you will support the natural cheese product category.

This role offers a flexible hybrid work schedule (Monday-Friday) located at our Home Office in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The hybrid work schedule is 3 days/week onsite at Home Office and 2 days/week from home. Travel is expected up to 50% of the time.

Relocation Benefits: Receive a $10,000 relocation bonus PLUS a generous relocation package if relocating more than 50 miles for this position.

About our Green Bay, WI Home Office:

You'll find lots to love in our beautiful home office in downtown Green Bay, Wisconsin. Our jeans-friendly environment has indoor and outdoor collaboration spaces, state-of-the-art R&D and sensory labs, culinary kitchens, a pilot plant, innovation center and more.

Take advantage of outdoor workspaces. Sample and provide feedback on new products from our R&D team. Enjoy free coffee, soda and popcorn. Take a short walk to restaurants, breweries, the YMCA and a weekly farmer's market on the scenic Fox River. You can even see Lambeau Field from our top floor.

What you'll do:

• Ensure acceptable food safety and quality results in assigned facilities.
• Monitor key processes, data and performance indicators that impact food safety, process consistency, product quality and profitability.
• Identify gaps and work with plant teams as well as other groups to improve outcomes.
• Employ root cause analysis and associated methodologies to assess product and process challenges, coordinate remediation, communication, process/policy enhancements and coordinate corrective and preventative actions.
• Actively support Operations, Sales and other impacted groups in commercialization and capital projects driving food safety and quality deliverables.
• Train, educate and coach plant leaders and partners in quality processes as well as product requirements. Expand quality insight throughout each facility and develop expertise within Quality leaders and professionals.
• Provide technical support to key customers.
• Support sustainability efforts through collaboration and audit support to SQF, Schreiber Production Systems and associated processes as a platform for Schreiber Food Safety and Quality Systems.
• Together with the leadership team, ensures compliance with Food Safety and Food Quality Plans, in addition to customer requirements.
• Interprets and communicates customer requirements to plant production and/or support groups.
• Establishes and Audits PCPs, CCPs and Standard Operating Procedures to define and monitor processes, to ensure customer requirements are met.
• Reviews incidents during which the procedures are not met and determines appropriate corrective action for partners failing to follow standard procedures.

What you need to succeed:

• Bachelor's Degree in Dairy/Food Science or related field
• 10 years of experience in Food Quality/Manufacturing
• Proven leadership and influence in cross-functional settings, excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Experience in food safety, quality methodologies, sanitation and audit processes. Applied computer and process excellence (Green/Black belt) tools.
• Experience with milk handling and PMO requirements preferred.
• Ability to travel up to 50%