Job Description
Job Description
Summary :
This position is responsible for various functions in the food safety and quality assurance department within the Springfield, Ohio bakery, including FSQA Program adherence, monitoring and execution. This role also includes the oversight of Quality Technicians to ensure all responsibilities have been completed as outlined and all necessary communication has been completed.
Essential Functions
- Responsible for the direct oversight of Quality Technicians.
- Conducts real-time observations of Operations and Manufacturing processes, providing timely and constructive feedback to team members.
- Collaborates effectively with all site personnel to ensure FSQA compliance and foster team-wide engagement.
- Executes assigned program records and tasks with accuracy and timeliness.
- Performs record reviews as a PCQI, as needed.
- Delivers training to associates assigned, ensuring understanding and adherence to FSQA standards.
- Conducts product analyses, including but not limited to pH, moisture content, organoleptic evaluation, and specification compliance.
- Carries out environmental monitoring duties as assigned, including EMP, air, and water testing.
- Verifies equipment calibration as directed.
- Identifies when product holds are necessary and executes holds in accordance with the Hold Program.
- Evaluates and trends data to support continuous improvement and compliance.
- Escalates FSQA issues following established protocols.
- Performs additional related tasks as assigned by the Site FSQA Manager or Corporate FSQA.
Core Competencies
Attention to DetailCommunicationResults OrientedAbility to work effectively with a cross-functional teamInitiative / UrgencyCritical Thinking and Application of Skills / Processes LearnedProblem SolvingInterpersonal Skills / TeamworkFlexibility / AdaptabilityJob-Specific Competencies
Operations & Product KnowledgeMicrosoft SuiteAnalytical ThinkingEthics / ConfidentialityDependabilityWork Environment
This position is within a manufacturing facility, where environmental conditions may vary, including fluctuating temperatures and loud sounds. The role involves physical activities such as walking, standing for extended periods, bending, squatting, and climbing stairs.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand for an extended period of time, walk the entirety off the facility, sit at a computer terminal and climb stairs.Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision requirements due to computer work and product inspection and auditing.Light to moderate lifting is required.Ability to work in a constant state of alertness is required.Must be capable of mental and visual ability to be able to inspect codes and packages and to count product. Must possess basic calculations of counting, addition, multiplication and division.Worker subject to both inside and outside environmental conditions and temperatures above 100 degrees that is process related and more extreme in summer months. Workers subject to outside temperatures below freezing.Workers subject to occasional noise sufficient to cause the worker to shout in order to be heard.Required Education and Experience
Two years of experience in FSQA in food manufacturing is required.FSMA PCQI CertificationHACCP Certification