Responsibilities
- Periodically review all food safety procedures and instructions, to ensure they remain current.
- Review requests to change FSMS-related procedures and work instructions and direct the Food Safety Team through such reviews.
- Manage the Food Safety Team and ensure that processes needed for the FSMS are established, implemented, and maintained.
- Ensure the promotion of awareness of customer requirements pertaining to food safety throughout the organization.
- Develop the Company’s prerequisite programs and ensure that PRPs are implemented, monitored, and communicated to the appropriate parties, and periodically review PRPs.
- Conduct hazard analyses.
- Evaluate suppliers’/vendors’ food safety systems; monitor and report on supplier food safety performance on an ongoing basis.
- Review revisions to manufacturing practices, to ensure potential food safety hazards have been adequately addressed.
- Oversee the internal food safety audit program – select internal audit personnel, review results of food safety audits, ensure that corrective actions are understood, and supervise corrective actions.
- Reporting on corrections and corrective actions taken at Management Review meetings.
- Collect, analyze, and publish measurement data, to determine the root cause of process and product food safety problems and recommend action to resolve those problems.
- Initiate and supervise product defects, to ensure adequate implementation and effectiveness.
- Supervise hazard analyses, report results of analyses to top management, and periodically review food safety-related processes to ensure hazards are accounted for and controlled.
- Develop team to solve day-to-day operational issues & reach performance goals.
- Communicate cross-functionally to assist the team to solve operational issues.
- Manage all aspects of product quality and food safety for the facility. This is inclusive of product specs, a quality manual, weight control, traceability, in-process and finished product testing and food safety and allergen. Conduct QAS self-inspections and participate in annual QAS audit program.
- Conduct self-inspection audits ensuring AIB and FSSC 22000 Standards requirements are met.
- Develop, coordinate and manage plant quality and sanitation programs as assigned.
- Provide facility quality training, to include GMP, food safety, Non-GMO and allergen plans, regulatory requirements, and quality measurement systems. Be capable of delivering training in the area of continuous improvement processes.
- Oversee the Sanitation functions within the department.
- Conduct one to ones with technicians to ensure that expectations are being met.
- Ensure that full compliance is maintained in all regulatory matters, and serve as the contact point for regulatory affairs at the site level.
Compensation & Benefits:
- The expected compensation range for this position is between $69,900 – $117,000.
- Location, confirmed job-related skills, experience, and education will be considered in setting actual starting salary. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range during the hiring process.
- Bonus based on performance and eligibility target payout is 8% of annual salary paid out annually.
- Paid time off subject to eligibility, including paid parental leave, vacation, sick, and bereavement.
- In addition to salary, PepsiCo offers a comprehensive benefits package to support our employees and their families, subject to elections and eligibility: Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Health, and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Insurance (Accident, Group Legal, Life), Defined Contribution Retirement Plan.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree preferred in Engineering, Business, Operations Management, Food Science, or related major.
- 3 years supervisory experience preferred.
- Willingness to work off shifts, weekends, & holidays.
- Desired knowledge in the food industry.
- Preferred to have knowledge in supply chain.
- Demonstrated leadership ability.
- Highly motivated self-starter.
- Project management skills.
- Ability to work in an unstructured environment with the ability to make trade-off decisions quickly.
- Ability to give/receive constructive feedback.
- Ability to lead a team-based approach to decision making.
- Demonstrated ability to work in a results-oriented, challenging environment.
- Effective coaching, facilitation, presentation, and team-building skills.