Food Quality Manager

Baking a Better Future "Our team is like a good recipe. All the ingrediencies come together to make an incredible product."Champion Foods, a pizza trailblazer, is expanding, and we're looking for dynamic talents to enhance our innovative and quality-driven team. We produce products cherished by families nationwide and pride ourselves on our entrepreneurial spirit, commitment to quality, and a warm workplace culture that feels like family. If you're passionate, eager to grow, and want to work for a company that values each voice and champions personal development, your next career adventure starts here. Join us, and let's craft great things together, one delicious slice at a time.Your MissionLead and manage the quality assurance programs, policies and initiatives for company products. Responsible for developing inspection, testing and quality control procedures, design of quality training programs, investigation of customer complaint issues and facilitation of quality audits. Lead the quality assurance staff, including training food technologists in the lab procedures and auditing techniques.What You'll Do:Create and implement updated policies, procedures and programs that ensure product safety and quality, including updating product specifications and issue changes.Identifies and resolves supplier food safety and quality issues.Provides technical support and acts in a liaison role with the quality control function to develop and ensure controls are developed, executed and maintained.Manages critical food lines and implements new laboratory procedures and instrumentation and assist the international department with manufacturing and problem resolution.Communicates with staff, other departments and suppliers with product specifications and program changes as appropriate.Responsible for direct involvement in corporate product recalls and retrievals if required and maintains appropriate documentation. Administers mock recalls to distribution centers.Coordinates samples from distribution centers, sanitation audits and lab testing.Lead quality assurance staff, including coaching, development and required training.Assists leadership in policy creation for vendors, vendor evaluation and auditsMaintains approved manufacturer list for regional vendors.Performs other duties as requested by Supervisor.Responsible for management of others, including hiring and performance management.What You'll BringBachelor's degree in food science, Biology, Chemistry or related discipline.Minimum of five (5) years quality assurance experience in the food industry and a total of seven (7) year's total quality assurance experience.Knowledge of the food industry manufacturing practices and familiar governmental regulations. (Exclusively for Domestic: including OSHA lab standards and Good Manufacturing Practices as defined by the FDA.)Ability to communicate effectively with vendors and other departments, often communicating complex technical data to a variety of audiences.Evidence of the ability to establish, document, update and track quality metrics, preferable through standardized and accepted process control procedures.Experience in a previous position requiring accuracy, attention to detail and documentation of issues, resolutions and policy changes.Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills. Good interpersonal skills and ability to resolve conflicting points of view.Demonstrated ability to manage multiple, complex projects and initiatives simultaneously with a results-oriented approach.Computer proficiency (Microsoft Office, database, Internet and documentation software required.Ability to travel up to 20% of the time and to adhere to the company corporate travel policy.HACCP certification and foodservice sanitation certification.Experience with lab analysis and testing on products used in the pizza business.Sensory abilities for product evaluation.Where You'll WorkAbility to travel domestically 20% of the time and adhere to company travel policies.Exposure to travel elements, plant environments, spice odors, higher or lower than average temperatures.

Created: 2025-06-20