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Company Description
Stratas Foods LLC is the leading supplier of fats and oils to the Foodservice, Food Ingredients and Retail Private Label markets in North America and is a producer of quality bulk and packaged dressings, mayonnaise and sauces. Stratas Foods was formed in October 2008 as a 50/50 joint venture between ACH Food Companies (ACH) and Archer Daniels Midland (ADM).Manufacturing facilities are located in Dallas and Houston, TX; Decatur and Quincy, IL; Englewood, NJ; Fresno, CA; Nashville, TN; and Valdosta, GA. Corporate offices are located in Memphis, TN. We are committed to maintaining a progressive workplace by utilizing the ideas, skills and talents of all of our employees. We strive to make Stratas Foods a great place to work and are building a team capable of meeting our business goals.Job DescriptionThe Regional QA Manager is responsible for the management of food safety and quality programs and direct management of plant QA and sanitation personnel for Stratas' shortening, margarine and oils producing plants to assure Stratas Foods, LLC, is appropriately positioned to supply safe and quality products to the food industry.The Regional QA Senior Manager focuses of QA and Food Safety and leads and mentors his / her team to evolve a safety and quality culture based on three key actions:Ensuring our ingredients, equipment, processes, and personnel training levels are appropriate so that we “Make it Right the First Time” Championing Food Safety and Quality by teaching that Food Safety & Quality begin with “U” (ie. understanding the impact our actions have on the product) Focusing on the Fix” or employing a robust root cause analysis approach when we encounter process deviationsThis position reports to the VP of RDIQ.The Manager's Responsibilities:1. Develops, implements and assesses process/systems (20% of time) - plans and directs all shortening, margarines, and oils programs and management of change, optimizes and / or implements ingredient / product specification systems, drives continuous improvement, and provides input to locations and corporate leaders related to capital needed to grow Stratas' food safety and quality leadership position in the DSM category.- Develop and implement corporate policies and procedures
- Work with plant QA on continuous improvement of quality and food safety programs
- Ensures quality plans are in place for new products / processes
- Ensure HACCP plans are in place and validated
- Monitor corporate complaint system and work with DSM plants to identify root cause and corrective actions.
- Work with DSM producing plants to identify / rectify recurring issues with meeting specifications.
- Collaborates with the Regional QA Director to publish monthly statistics summarizing key quality metrics across all producing plants.
- Communicate regulatory changes and events in the industry
- Support plants with audit certification and continuing certification requirements
- Work with plants to investigate and resolve customer non-conformances.
- Identifies training needs for plant QA and Sanitation team members as it relates to corporate quality systems and programs.
- Knowledgeable and able to transfer this knowledge as it relates to: planning, conducting various types of audits and inspections (laboratory, manufacturing, sampling plans/methods, system/documentation, etc) while empowering his / her team members to strive to develop their individual skill sets as it relates to achieving the ability to recognize and resolve potential issues in these environments