Director of Quality Assurance

Company: NEWaukee
Location: Milwaukee
Posted on: September 13, 2020

Job Description:

Reporting to the COO, the Director of Quality Assurance is responsible for all of Miller Baking Company’s delicious products meeting high quality standards, in a safe and clean environment. The Director of Quality Assurance will ensure product quality by creating product specifications, monitoring standard operating procedures for compliance and training the manufacturing team in the areas of GMP, SOP, SQF, safe work practices, and sanitation best practices and procedures.

This position is located primarily at 9009 N 51st St. Brown Deer, WI 53223, with responsibility for an additional facility located at 8313 N Steven Rd, Milwaukee, WI 53223.

The Right Fit: Bachelor’s Degree in a related field, or equivalent experience.

8+ years of progressively responsible experience in commercial baking with a proven track record of achievement.

Strong knowledge, understanding, and application of food safety, HACCP systems, USDA/FDA regulatory requirements; sanitary design of equipment/facility.

Advanced time management skills and ability to multi-task with different priority and task levels.

Strong technical skills (Office Suite, Baking Equipment, etc)

Adaptable communication skills to work with cross-functional teams and stakeholders at all levels, including externally.

About the Company: Family-owned for nearly 100 years, Miller Baking Company has been committed to crafting great tasting baked goods with honest ingredients. Today, they bake Pretzilla® Soft Pretzel Bread, a brand of soft pretzel buns and bites that is drawing fans across the country and experiencing significant year-over-year growth. They combine great products with their core values of teamwork, integrity, courage, and curiosity to create an environment with opportunities to make a positive impact and personally develop.

You will:

Support, demonstrate and promote company core values: Teamwork, Integrity, Courage & Curiosity

Enforce plant and company safety programs, promoting and maintaining a high level of awareness and adherence to defined employee safety requirements and procedures while performing work activities.

Continuously seek improvements to all company regulatory and safety programs, and manage work as assigned.

Hire, lead, and develop the Quality Assurance and Sanitation teams to achieve organizational goals.

Implement food safety, quality, sanitation and personal safety standards to meet audit and regulatory compliance.

Investigate, respond to, and drive resolution of customer complaints and concerns, including tracking and reporting.

Serve as the primary contact for regulatory, customer, and SQF audits.

Manage the Master Sanitation Schedule and Pest Control programs.

Track and report against standards, driving continuous improvement in product and process.

Assure label compliance of all products.

Support product troubleshooting and optimization through data analytics.

Provide guidance to new product development regarding food safety and label content and regulatory requirements.

Provide technical support and expertise to in the areas of Production, Quality, Food Safety, Complaint resolution and other functions.

Utilize external resources, including suppliers, to support continuous improvement of products and processes.

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