Quality Assurance Manager

Glanbia is a better nutrition company, home to consumer brands and ingredients that help people around the world feel strong, nourished, and to perform well at any age. Our global ingredient solutions business creates better, healthier and smarter nutritional and functional ingredients for healthy lifestyles. Bovine colostrum supports the areas of immune health, gut health, sports nutrition and early life nutrition. Its nutritional and bioactive-rich components work synergistically, providing immune and gut health-related support to humans through all stages of life.

We are hiring a QA Manager for Ripon, CA to promote and advance Glanbia Food Safety and Quality systems along with facilitating continual quality improvements.  Responsibilities include:

• Organize, coordinate, monitor, and champion the Quality System and Food Safety Systems in accordance to GFSI requirements – Pre-requisite programs, HACCP, FSMA and Food Quality plans
• Drive continuous improvements for zero quality defects utilizing GPS tools and principles.
• Ensure all our internal and external processes are fully capable to deliver premium product to customers on timely basis.
• Safe Quality Food Practitioner for the site, overseeing the development, implementation, review and maintenance of the SQF programs with annual review and validate any changes to the Food Safety and Food Quality Plans
• Evaluate and monitor ingredients, packaging and processing aid suppliers for compliance to Vendor Assurance Policy.
• Grade and evaluate finished products and determine product release and distribution based on customer requirements.
• Ensure customer specifications are being met and manage complaint investigations and customer responses.
• Participate in all State, FDA, USDA and other third party audits ensuring corrective actions are completed and documented.
• Work with plant management to track plant Quality performance to key performance indicators (KPI).
• Ensure employees have adequate knowledge of GMP’s and Food Safety programs and supervise that training is completed per requirements and is effective.
• Coordinate timely responses on customer opportunities and implement corrective and preventative actions according to site priorities
• Responsible for SAP Master Data maintenance and changes for product testing plans and customer specifications and COA set up and changes.
• Liaison for USDA-CVB: submit communications, lab results for product release, and revise outlines of product to submit.
• Responsible for product release and ensuring that master data is updated in accordance to set specifications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from college or university and 4 or more years related experience
• Respond to inquiries or complaint from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community.
• Present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
• Apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis.
• Participate in proactive team efforts to achieve departmental and company goals.

Whether you want to build muscle, reach peak performance or eat more protein-rich foods we have a product to match. Apply now and make a difference in the world of health and wellness! Glanbia provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles; the annual salary for this role is $85,000 - $110,000 plus bonus.  This range may not be applicable to other locations and targeted salary is midpoint of range. Factors that could be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, years of experience and comparison to current employees already in this role.   We offer the opportunity to develop your career on a global stage, continuous learning through an on-demand learning platform, and a competitive compensation package including staff discounts, generous family leave policy, health & dental plan, competitive salary, 401K.

Glanbia is a better nutrition company with three divisions: Performance Nutrition, Health & Nutrition and Dairy Nutrition. Collectively and with our partners we offer an incredible breadth of expertise in nutrition. We employ a team of 5800 people, work with global food and beverage companies, and sell our award-winning and market-leading brands and ingredients in more than 100 countries worldwide. 

At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a wide variety of candidates, and we will give your application consideration, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. 

At Glanbia our culture will celebrate individuality, knowing that together we are more.