Food Safety & Quality Assurance General Manager

Knowledge associated with food safety, animal science, natural science or technical field normally acquired through a bachelor’s degree or higher in academic study, or related job experience essential to the job.
Preferably 3-5 years of prior industry experience to fully grasp regulatory, production and manufacturing concepts.
Experience with FDA and USDA regulated products preferred.
Standard computer skills required; generating spreadsheets and developing templates for use by plant management and corporate FSQA, sales and operations.
Excellent communication skills required, both written and verbal, demonstrating the proven ability to correspond with all levels – line team members to corporate management.
Must have good problem identification and problem-solving skills.
Must be able to work independently yet interact with many different facets within the organization and be the plant liaison to USDA.
HACCP Certified, PCQI Certified and BRC Certified preferred.
Manage crewing labor and attendance of the FSQA department.
Travel-3-5 plus trips per year.

Daily oversight of production practices including raw material receiving requirements; pre-operational and operational sanitation; finished product quality and Food Safety Systems; ensuring all Tyson FSQA policies and procedures are followed; monitoring verification and documentation associated with adherence to government regulations; developing, implementing and maintaining the HACCP, HARPC, SOP, GMP and SSOP based programs; ensuring finished product conforms to customer product and label specifications; report product issues and audit results to plant and corporate FSQA, plant management, corporate sales and/or operations; interacting with customers and their agents for product showings, plant tours and audits; visits to customer facilities; initial product runs and investigation response to quality related customer complaints; monitoring microbiological results; conducting bacterial swabs and generating shelf-life environmental graphs; performing research and development activities; responsible for implementing and maintaining food safety and quality programs and for the selecting training and managing of FSQA Supervisors and FSQA Technicians; facilitating both the Food Safety and Foreign Material teams at the plant; Completing required internal, regulatory, and customer audits; managing Hold Release inventories at plant level in SAP.