Quality Food Safety Manager

Job Description
Have you ever enjoyed Arnold, Brownberry or Oroweat bread? A Thomas' English muffin or bagel? Or perhaps snacked on a Sara Lee, Entenmann's or Marinela cake or donut? If the answer is yes, then you know Bimbo Bakeries USA!

More than 20,000 associates in bakeries, sales centers, offices and on sales routes work to ensure our consumers have the freshest products at every meal. In addition to competitive pay and benefits, we provide a safe and inclusive work environment that appreciates diversity, promotes development and allows our associates to be their authentic selves.

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Position Summary:
The Food Safety Manager has a responsible to ensuring our customers are provided with the highest quality product as well as excellent customer service. This individual also has a responsibility to ensure and maintain a food safe environment through compliance to all requirements of programs/policies for Food Safety, Good Manufacturing Practices, HACCP, Quality, Workplace Safety, OSHA, Environmental, and as may be required by Plant, Company, Local, State and Federal mandates or program.

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Implement, follow up and improve the BBU quality and food safety policies/system.
• Planning, coordination and execution of internal audits/inspections
• Coordination and participation in certification audits (GFSI/SQF).
• Identify and document best practices, ideas and information relevant to quality and food safety system.
• Identify, document and report any problems related to the quality, food safety and legality of the products.
• Provides training and mentoring to assure all bakery associates are fully capable of achieving Quality & Food Safety expectations.
• Collaborates, as needed, to develop the Quality and Food Safety capabilities of bakery personnel to enable them to drive towards zero Quality and Food Safety incidents.
• Provides oversight of Quality and Food Safety programs and evaluates for compliance through regular audits, inspections and risk assessments.
• Performs and/or coordinates analysis of process capability.
• Participates in investigations to determine and address root causes during special situations, quality failures, regulatory inspections, vendor (ingredient & packaging) related incidents, etc. to assure proper investigation, root cause analysis and resolution.
• Manage the Sanitation Department and the associated budget
• Implement quality and food safety improvement projects.
• Promotes the quality and food safety mission with the HACCP team.
• Planning and participation in team meetings and follow up with staff areas.
• Performs data analysis trending reports and action plans for their KPIs.
• Promotes and supports the use of quality tools such as SPC, Kaizen, 5-S, Problem Solving, etc.
• Oversees programs to reduce or eliminate consumer complaints (Quality and food Safety).
• Follows up on corrective action plans
• Follows up on quality issues through finished product scoring, bakery data and consumer complaints

Job Requirements

Key Behavioral Competencies:

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Organized and detail oriented.
• Comfortable working in a participative team environment.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work under pressure while managing multiple projects.

Education and Work History:

• BS degree, in Food Science or related major preferred
• 5-7 years of Bakery or Food Manufacturing operations management experience
• PCQI, HACCP, Food Defense and GFSI (SQF, BRC, IFS, etc.) Certified
• A combination of education, training and experience that results in demonstrated competency to perform the work may be substituted.
• Familiarity with federal and state regulations, 6 sigma, ISO, AIB and GFSI Standards.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office programs (Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint).
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Organized and detail oriented.
• Comfortable working in a participative team environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work under pressure while managing multiple projects

Bimbo Bakeries USA is an equal opportunity employer with a policy that provides equal employment opportunity for applicants and employees regardless of race, color, religion, disability, gender, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other classification protected by law.