Quality Manager

MM Direct is hiring for a Quality Manager in Louisville, KY. Travel is required in this role 25% to customers, vendors, and other facility sites. Looking for 5-10 years' experience in food manufacturing management. Certification in Lean/Six Sigma desired.

This is a 1st shift position on DIRECT HIRE.

Pay is $85-$95K.

Benefits include:

Medical, Vision, Dental

401K

14 Paid Holidays

10 Vacation days

Paid Life insurance

5 sick days

Short term/Long term medical

Tuition assistance

Responsible for managing and directing all aspects of the Quality Department at the plant level. This requires investigation and response to quality related customer complaints; ensuring all Food Safety and Quality policies and procedures are followed; ensuring finished product conforms to customer and product specifications; monitoring, verification and documentation associated with adherence to regulations.

• Food Safety: Manage the plant food safety systems to create an environment where food safety threats are recognized and eliminated/mitigated. Manage compliance with all regulatory and company defined food safety and sanitation standards; examples of these systems include internal/third party audits, vendor audits/certification, inbound and outbound inspection, ingredient, intermediate and finished product inspection, microbiological testing, product traceability, HACCP, organic foods, EU, kosher requirements, sanitation, pest control, lead GMP compliance team and training, and the Environmental Monitoring Program.
• Quality / Manufacturing: Demonstrates a working knowledge of production equipment (processing and packaging equipment) and its’ related impact on overall quality.  Assists with all aspects of new product development, production trials, test sampling and production test runs of new materials and finished products as needed.  Manages QC Lab, QC Systems and related documentation.  Oversees the preparation of various reports monitoring product quality results and customer feedback.  Leads continuous improvement projects and shares best practices between plants. Recommends improvements as appropriate. As back up to Plant Manager and as integral part of plant leadership team must process complete understanding of logistics, scheduling and operations.  Must possess a “roll up sleeves” attitude and have visible presence on manufacturing floor.
• Customer Focus: Provide direct on-site assistance to customers regarding product selection, product use, complaint resolution, troubleshooting, etc  Ability to conduct customer site visits with or without sales associates. Protects the Customer.  And oversees customer sampling program.
• Back-up for the Plant Manager when out.

Please send resumes to jadams@minutemeninc.com

Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline

5-10 years

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 5-10 years