Food Safety & Quality Manager

About Kerry

Kerry is one of the world's leading taste and nutrition companies for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries and we are hiring a Quality Manager to support our growing business in Byesville, OH. In this role, you will ensure all manufactured products at the Kerry plant comply with quality, food safety, customer and regulatory requirements through lab test and validation schemes. Implement and monitor GMP, food safety and GFSI requirements across entire site.

About the role

Key Responsibilities

•  HACCP and Food safety site lead, providing guidelines and support for all operations team in aspects like: verification and yearly validation of HACCP/ Food Safety plans and prerequisite programs.

•  Ensure that all food safety management systems based on GFSI (Global Food Safety Initiative) certification are in accordance with the requirements of the current standard.

•  Responsible for participating in new product meetings (NPI) ensuring the execution of risk assessment for food safety based on HACCP and customer requirements.

•  Facilitate GFSI, customer, FDA, and internal audits related to the area of quality and food safety.

•  Administer the sanitation team to ensure that sanitation risks are reduced.

•  Manage environmental monitoring program.

•  Develop training based on the risks raised in HACCP with a focus on risk prevention.

•  Ensure the implementation of corporate food safety programs.

•  Ensure that all action plans are managed, and generate risk analysis based on the risk map. Manage action plans based on CAPA, using Intelex portal for root cause analysis.

•  Conduct risk assessments systematically to avoid deviations that may affect the performance of the plant and our customers.

•  Responsible for overseeing third party companies, service providers such as: Pest control, chemicals, cleaning and conservation of the environment and calibration of critical equipment based on HACCP.

•  To be the focal point for good manufacturing practices, change management, preventive maintenance for food safety, foreign material program, golden 6, allergen control, food defense, etc. Ensure that all prerequisites are carried out to avoid possible risk of food safety.

•  Perform risk trend analysis and ensure that leadership levels receive all the strengths and weaknesses of the management system based on HACCP, SWAT and risk map analysis.

Key Experience:

•  B.S. Degree in Microbiology, Food science, Biology, or related field.

•  Minimum 8 years of quality & food safety management experience within a manufacturing setting.

•  Experience with aseptic processing required.

•  Knowledge – certified and experience with relevant GFSI systems such as IFS, SQF, BRC and/or FSSC 22000.

•  Knowledge about allergens, microbiological topics, Kosher, HACCP, GMP´s, Quality systems and Pre-requisite programs, internal audits.

•  Knowledge with Microsoft Office & SAP required.

Qualifications and skills

The typical hiring range for this role is $90k-135k annually and is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, location, etc.  In addition to your pay, Kerry offers benefits such as a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and retirement contribution (all benefits and incentives are subject to eligibility requirements).