Job Duties:
Duties may include, but are not limited to the following:
Required Competencies & Knowledge:
Knowledge of:
Skill in:
Ability to:
Proficiency in:
Work Environment:
Physical Requirements:
Minimum Qualifications:
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Maker's Pride is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Duties may include, but are not limited to the following:
- Evaluate, understand, and develop plans to comply with customer requirements.
- Create metrics to monitor compliance to customer and agency requirements.
- Facilitate all customer and 3rd party audits.
- Manage audit related CAPA (Corrective Action Preventive Action) to closure.
- Serve as technical liaison/leader for the facility/procurement on supplier related defects and improvement opportunities.
- With procurement develop a supplier rating, corrective/preventative process to improve supplier quality.
- Partner with Quality Systems on supplier approval, incoming ingredient requirements, and ingredient hazard analysis.
- Act as primary quality resource and coordinator on sanitary design & change control activities.
- Facilitate all internal auditing processes & maintain/perform training on departmental-specific policies, procedures and programs.
- Manage compliance schedules with all departments.
- Ensure all HACCP and Food Safety Plans are up to date, verified, and validated.
- Support Quality Manager and commercialization teams in integrating customer and compliance requirements into internal specifications.
- Support Quality Assurance department as necessary, in other areas.
- Serve as a backup for the Quality Manager if needed during his/her absence.
Required Competencies & Knowledge:
Knowledge of:
- Ingredient hazards in accordance with FSMA
- Intentional Adulteration Risk Assessments
- Food Defense
- Knowledge and experience with SAP preferred
- Advanced computer skills and a knowledge of project management tools
Skill in:
- Maintain harmonious working relations with employees from all departments.
- Maintain harmonious working relations with management from all levels.
- Communicate effectively with all employees and management.
- Comfortable with leading difficult decisions.
- Flexible, agile, creative, able to lead by example and be ready to be part of a multidisciplinary department team.
Ability to:
- Communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
- Manage multiple projects/ trackers at one time
- Ensure collaborative relationships with industry, trade, other associations, regulatory agencies and Maker's Pride staff.
- Lead 'best in class' behaviors with focus on safety, quality, and policy focus
Proficiency in:
- MS Office Suite and large ERP systems, SAP preferred
- Problem solving: Create hypothesis for a challenge, elaborate on test plans, analyze and interpret results, critical thinking.
- RCA-CAPA Tools (5-Why, Fishbone, etc.)
Work Environment:
- Ability to work in a light to high noise environment
- Communicate in English to give acknowledgement
- Handle daily employee issues
- Travel up to 25% is possible
Physical Requirements:
- Reaching with hands and arms throughout shift.
- Ability to use hands and fingers.
- Ability to see, hear and talk.
- Employee frequently required to sit.
- Occasionally required to walk, climb and/or balance.
- Ability to lift and carry up to 20 lbs.
- Walk up to 400 yards to work and break areas.
Minimum Qualifications:
- 4-year College or university program certification in food safety, microbiology, biology or experimental scientist related background. Or three or more years related experience and/or training. SQF or ISO certification a plus.
- 2 or more years of supervisory leadership experience is required.
- Minimum 3 years' experience in product compliance and/or commercialization, product development or similar discipline, in the food manufacturing industry is required.
- Familiar with state and federal food processing regulations.
- ISO, ASQ and/or SQF/BRC certification preferred.
- HACCP and PCQI Certifications.
- Must be accurate and detail-oriented.
- Excel (conditional formatting, formulas, drop downs, trend charting, pivot tables, etc.)
- Ability to work with minimal supervision and at times independently.
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Maker's Pride is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Job ID: 521628163
Originally Posted on: 5/19/2026
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