Quality Associate Manager

**Responsibilities**:
**Quality and Food Safety Manager, for our Guadalajara Facilities**

The Quality and Food Safety Manager is accountable for ensuring that the plant follows and adheres to quality protocols and produces the highest quality product. You will be responsible for leading Quality Technicians and developing a team of Quality Supervisors. Responsibilities include cost efficiency, and continuous improvement of processes, service, and safety for an entire business unit across all shifts. The Quality Control Manager works with production, maintenance, and warehouse teams across the plant by communicating quality procedures and developing long-term sustainable practices to maintain the superior quality process.

Major Tasks, Accountabilities and Key Responsibilities:

- Deliver effective change leadership while driving business changes and minimizing people impact
- Communicate and collaborate cross-functionally to assist team to solve operational issues
- Builds people capability through effective employee relations, hiring, training, and communication for front-line hourly and salaried personnel
- Motivate team members to achieve plan goals
- Identify and lead efforts of product/process quality and cost management opportunities to achieve productivity gains
- Lead the plant QM Pillar through the TPM journey
- Lead and develop action plans with production, engineering, and division Quality Assurance to improve the product specifications, analytical procedures, and sampling programs and ensure that they are appropriate and meet system capability and key consumer requirements.
- Provide forward-thinking insights for future business improvements.
- Serve as a key statistical resource. Verify product and process improvements through the implementation and analysis of statistically designed experiments and capability studies.
- Lead quality control compliance QAS audit and military audits
- Assist in food safety compliance audits such as but not limited to FSSC 22000, AIB and FDA
- Lead quality control and food safety compliance audits in the absence of Food Safety Manager
- Ensure all sanitation is complete and properly meets quality standards
- Design and implement programs to monitor calibration and accuracy of all analytical procedures and equipment in the plant.
- Ensure compliance to the OSHA chemical hygiene plan and proper laboratory safety practices by involving all employees in an effective safety program; provide training, periodic review of hazards, and timely correction of hazardous situations.
- Lead the interpretation of in-process and analytical data to make quality evaluations, recommend actions for improvements, and assure resolution. Challenge results and drive improvements. Coach others in the interpretation of results.
- Lead risk assessment analysis throughout the plant. Manage issues with non-conforming product to assure proper control, minimize loses, and provide analysis to drive the elimination of future occurrences.
- Provide training in the area of food science, regulatory requirements, and quality measurement systems to appropriate personnel.
- Administer quality control policies and procedures
- Regular and predictable attendance at the work site
- This role requires regular presence on the plant floor
- This role may require some travel (less than 5%)

Qualifications:
**Qualifications/Requirements**:

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required. Preferably in engineering, business, operations management, or similar field
- Lean Six Sigma Experience preferred, demonstrated by successful completion of major improvement projects.
- Minimum of 5 years experience in Quality & Supply Chain operations
- Minimum of 3 years experience leading teams
- Strong knowledge of Mexican standards and Management Systems related to: Health (NOM-SSA-120), Environment (ISO 14001:2004), Quality Management (ISO9001), Food Safety (MIP, HACCP), Metrology and Microbiology.
- Clear understanding and working knowledge of the process and compliance quality systems in a manufacturing environment
- Clear understanding of TPM Processes
- Strong organizational, interpersonal, and presentation skills
- Knowledge of regulatory requirements and AIB standards.
- Ability to motivate, lead, and work with teams
- Ability to give and receive constructive feedback
- Ability to lead a team-based approach to decision-making
- Proven ability to work in a results-oriented, challenging environment
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to get results through mentoring others
- Effective coaching, facilitation, presentation, and team-building skills

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- Experience in Quality in the Food/Beverage Industry
- MBA or master's degree

Overview (Secondary Language):
**What can you expect from us?**
- Competitive compensation
- A flexible work environment that promotes a healthy balance between personal and professional life
- A dynamic and inclusive culture
- A supportive team t