Quality Food Safety Manager

Grupo Bimbo

Oxnard, CA

Pay: $106,600-$138,600/yr

**Have you ever enjoyed Arnold®, Brownberry® or Oroweat® bread? A Thomas’® English muffin or bagel? Or perhaps snacked on a Sara Lee®, Entenmann’s® or Marinela® cake or donut? If the answer is yes, then you know Bimbo Bakeries USA!**

**More than 20,000 associates in bakeries, sales centers, offices and on sales routes work to ensure our consumers have the freshest products at every meal. In addition to competitive pay and benefits, we provide a safe and inclusive work environment that appreciates diversity, promotes development and allows our associates to be their authentic selves.**

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**Come join the largest baking company in the world and our family of 20,000 associates nationwide!**

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**Salary Range: $106,600 - $138,600**

**Annual Bonus Eligibility**

**Comprehensive Benefits Package**

**Paid Time Off**

**401k & Company Match**

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**Position Summary:**

Quality Food Safety (QFS) Department Leaders play an important role in helping BBU bake with world-class practices, win as one team, grow our people, and serve our customers. They embrace the consumer by producing high-quality and food safe products and ensure operational capabilities by supporting their team in executing the Operations Excellence Playbook. Our QFS Department Leaders empower and involve their team to achieve key performance metrics and equip each Team Leader to win their shift. They create a compelling culture by engaging and developing their team through effective coaching strategies and expect ownership and accountability to help their team achieve results across people, safety, quality, service, and cost.

**Key Job Responsibilities:**

Promote the quality and food safety mission with the BL and DL through quality and food safety systems

Oversee the financial health of the QFS department, creating and maintaining annual budgets

Lead the growth and development of Team Leaders and Associates

Build a culture that values the person, the community, and always acts with integrity

Partner with Business Unit leadership, bakery leadership team, and cross-functional teams to identify and implement continuous improvement strategies

Uphold and promote our E5 Leadership Behaviors: Embrace the Consumer, Ensure Operational Capabilities, Empower and Involve, Engage and Develop, and Expect Ownership and Accountability

Coach Team Leaders towards an empowered, problem-solving mentality to consistently achieve world-class standards

Operate with a One Team mentality by supporting Team Leaders in collaborating across departments to solve issues and ensure production is to schedule and shipment to order

Operate in adherence to the BBU quality and food safety policies/systems.

Set priorities for department and facilitates problem solving processes and teams to identify, implement, and communicate solutions while driving continuous improvement.

Deliver on Key Performance Indicators for People, Quality, Safety, Service, and Cost

Engage and develop core competencies in Team Leaders and associates through onboarding, training, coaching, and consistent performance feedback

Achieve all safety goals. Deliver on safety awareness programs in order to eliminate unsafe acts and conditions that contribute to workplace injuries. Comply with workplace standards, company policies and government regulations

Ensure product quality by identifying, prioritizing, and bringing solutions to focus issues through finished product scoring, bakery data and consumer complaints

Participate in definition for capital investments

Equip Team Leaders to serve sales by analyzing data to ensure all production processes are running efficiently and the team is set up for success

Perform data analysis trending reports and action plans for Quality and Food Safety KPI´s

Drive programs to reduce or eliminate consumer complaints and food safety incidents

Participate in investigations to determine and address root causes during special situations, quality failures, regulatory inspections, vendor (ingredient & packaging) related incidents, etc. to assure proper investigation, root cause analysis and resolution

Utilize tablets and essential applications within the tablets, such as Kleanz ,SOMAX, Rever, Shift Guides, Intelex, and more, to keep processes running effectively

Engage in the compliance, coordination for internal and external audits and certifications

**Key Behavioral Competencies:**

**Operational Execution:** This role requires the ability to think strategically about business needs, set data-based priorities, and build plans with Team Leaders, fellow Department Leaders, and their Bakery Leader to achieve improved business KPIs. The ideal candidate will have experience setting, achieving, and exceeding business performance targets. They will consistently strive to achieve goals, even in the face of obstacles, and will proactively develop contingency plans to ensure goals are met. They will be energize