Quality Assurance Manager-VFG/ Gerente de Aseguramiento de Calidad

Villari Foods

Warsaw, NC

Estimated pay: Est. $18–$27/hr (market estimate, not employer-stated)

Shift: Full time

Are you experienced in Quality Assurance and looking for a job where your determination and experience can make a difference? Look no further! Villari Foods is currently seeking a Quality Assurance Manager to join our team in Warsaw, North Carolina.

At Villari Brothers, the Quality Assurance Manager plans, coordinates, and directs quality control & Food Safety in the Villari Brother facility, designed to ensure continuous production of products consistent with established standards by performing the following duties personally or through the designee. Oversight, maintenance, and compliance with the facility HACCP, SSOPs, GMPs, SQF, and Special Claims meat processing and manufacturing. The candidate must be HACCP & GFSI certified.

**Job duties:**

• Develop, analyze, and reassess the HACCP Plans, SSOPs, SOPs, Prerequisites, and supporting documents as needed to produce a Safe Quality Food product.
• Collect review, and audit HACCP, SSOP, SOP, Prerequisite, and supporting documents and correct errors if necessary.
• Implement corrective action if a HACCP, SSOP, SOP, Prerequisite, or any supporting documentation deviation has occurred.
• Review corrective action deviation documents with the Director of Food Safety prior to submitting them to the USDA.
• Coordinate with production to enforce immediate corrective actions if an NR has been issued by the USDA to restore conditions for production to continue or resume if areas are under the USDA tag.
• Review and proofread all documents for grammar and spelling errors and ensure
• documentation is corrected properly.
• Must be able to work with USDA and management at a professional level.
• Review and sign all necessary documents daily.
• Directly manages all employees assigned to work areas.
• Follow the employee handbook including disciplinary action up to termination. The ability to stop operations to protect product quality and food safety.
• Assign and distribute additional duties in the absence of a QC technician
• Communicate quality and/or food safety issues to the Director of Food Safety and Director of Operations as they arise.
• Assist in food safety and quality training QC Technicians, Managers, and Plant management when needed.
• Other duties as assigned or requested by upper management.
• Must be able to work with USDA and management at a professional level.
• Follow the employee handbook including disciplinary action up to termination.
• Ability to stop operations to protect the product quality and food safety.
• This job position requires good attendance.
• Other duties as assigned or requested by upper management.

**To qualify for this job, you must have:**

• High School Diploma or GED
• 3-5 years of Experience in a high-volume food manufacturing environment or related field preferred.
• Demonstrated experience and a strong commitment to meeting internal customer requirements and continuous improvement objectives.
• Demonstrated experience and strong commitment to meeting internal customer requirements and continuous improvement objectives.

**We’d also love it if you have:**

• HACCP & GFSI Certified
• Bachelor’s Degree preferred in Food Science, Nutrition, and Food.
• Experience in swine slaughter is a plus.
• Experience in a high-volume food manufacturing environment or related field preferred.

**What Villari Foods offers you:**

• Medical insurance
• Company-paid life insurance
• 401K
• Paid vacation days and holidays
• Employee discounts on Villari meat products
• Opportunities for employee recognition
• Opportunities for promotion from within; more than 80% of our leaders started in an entry-level position at Villari Foods!

**How Villari Foods is different:**

• As a family-owned and operated business, we are more connected with our team members and truly consider each employee a member of the Villari family.
• We are a people-focused culture. Team members are not only known but also cared for by peers, leaders, and owners. You are not just a number.
• The experience each employee has working at Villari Foods is important to us. That is why we strive for a better quality of work life with a slower pace that avoids an eventual burnout.

**Physical requirements and work environment:**

The physical demand described here are representative of those that an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Occasionally, May be required to work in production environment that are hot, cold, wet environment, working near moving mechanical parts, exposure to fumes or airborne particles, and chemicals.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually below 85 DB for a time-weighted average of 8 hours.

• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus
• Able to