How you will make history here...
The Quality Compliance Specialist is responsible for overseeing and enforcing food safety, quality, and regulatory compliance programs within the manufacturing facility. This role ensures that all products meet internal quality standards as well as applicable local, state, and federal regulations, including FDA, USDA, and GFSI requirements. The Lead conducts audits and inspections, manages documentation and corrective actions, and collaborates with production and operations teams to promote a strong food safety culture. The Quality Compliance Lead plays a key role in continuous improvement, risk mitigation, and maintaining customer and regulatory confidence in product quality and safety.
What you will do...
70% Lead site compliance and audit readiness for all BUs (Cookies, Crackers, Bakery) and provide overall support to the manufacturing facility as outlined below:
• Lead plant internal quality and food safety audits. Create and coordinate schedule, coordinate training, qualification and calibration of auditors, develop checklists, generate reports and follow-through with corrective action assignees to ensure CARs are completed, effectiveness is verified and audits are closed. Participate in programs as an auditor/inspector.
• Manage/support quality corrective / preventive action programs including management and training to Campbell’s CAPA system.
• Manage QA documentation critical to quality systems, compliance, including creating new documents, revising existing documents, determining training needs, overseeing the approval and distribution processes, maintaining document control database and coordinating document reviews.
• Support the Food Safety / Quality program efforts such as SQF certification audits, facility verification / validation activities, HACCP / Food Safety Program, Raw Material Bulk Handling Systems, Food Security Improvements, etc.
• Function as HACCP / Food Safety team member responsible for conducting risk assessments and organizing program reassessments for continuous improvement.
• Champions plant traceability systems and mock recall exercises for ingredients, packaging and finished product. Executes plant-scheduled and Corporate-initiated trace exercises, including requests for mock recalls at the third-party DC level.
• Leads plant food defense team by conducting team meetings, audits and assessments.
• Lead Food Safety continuous improvement efforts (complaint reduction, program reassessments, data collection systems, training). Assess and disposition raw materials for suitability / shelf-life testing.
30% Provide quality systems support environmental microbiological monitoring program, laboratory testing activities, calibration program, structured product inspection programs, and allergen validation activities.
• Responsible for plant environmental monitoring program including organizing and training on sampling and testing, reporting results, analyzing for trends and coordinating corrective action.
• Support sanitation program initiatives, environmental programs, cleaning verification & validation, allergen changeover, etc.
• Fulfill requests for data and reports (ex. Corporate, environmental).
• Identify opportunities and design plans for expanded use of the plant electronic data collection system, anticipating future applications.
• Support investigations of in-plant quality incidents (foreign material, nonconforming product) and consumer complaints, identifying root causes and facilitating corrective action with plant teams.
• Cross-train in other QA tasks to function as back-up to QA team members.
Who you will work with...
- Reporting to QA Manager
What you will bring to the table... (Must Have)
- High School Diploma or GED
- 4+ years of experience within manufacturing
It would be great if you have... (Nice to Have)
- Bachelor's Degree or Associate's Degree
- 5+ years of experience within Food Manufacturing
- PCQI (Preventive Control Qualified Individual), HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point) certified, SQF (Safe Quality Foods) certified are strongly preferred
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