Supply Chain Quality Control Manager

Responsibilities

• Ensure that the technical specifications of quality and safety of all raw materials, packaging materials and finished products manufactured at the Caribe Plant are respected, met and followed.
• Guarantee a control environment (quality and safety controls), by complying with the SOX test script. It involves decision-making in the face of findings of deviations and internal and external breaches.
• Leading and guiding the audit processes in Quality and Safety Management Systems, ensuring the required action plans are implemented in a timely manner, and staff are trained and qualified according to the auditable requirements.
• Participate as Lead Auditor / Internal Auditor in plant audits, ensuring compliance with the annual audit plan.
• Ensure the action plans are established and executed in the CQA evaluation (formerly FL Challenge), achieving winning products in the “Compliance” test and supporting the strategies required in the “Design” & “Competitive” cells.
• Generate strategies to achieve the objectives established in the AOP of the Total Caribe Plant; and the PDR's of the team, ensuring and monitoring the organizational goals in terms of Quality and Safety are achieved.
• Ensure compliance with GMPs, ensuring continuous improvement and strengthening the quality culture
• Monitor and make decisions as a Qualified Individual in Preventive Controls (PCQI), verify compliance and adherence to the rest of the Plant's PCQIs
• Maintain the Sanitary License of the Caribe Plant operation in force and be the point of contact with the requirements / approaches with the Ministry of Health for matters related to the quality and safety of the products (Sanitary Registries are managed by the Regulatory / Legal Department )
• Promote and facilitate the development of its people, through training, development and empowerment of operational personnel so that they support the fulfillment of common objectives, achieving the formation of high performance autonomous teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree - Chemical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree in Food Technology, Food Engineering.
• MBA, Master in Processes, Master in Quality Assurance other related.
• 6 years of experience in food processes.
• Knowledge of Quality and Safety systems
• Mastery of BPM, SSOP, HACCP programs
• Mastery of the international certifications FSSC22000, AIB
• Knowledge of Local Regulation & American Regulation (FSMA) for food manufacturing
• Mastery of MS Office programs.
• SAP domain.
• Ability to handle mathematical conversions.
• Extensive knowledge in chemistry - reagents, statistics, microbiology.
• Ability to enforce standards for staff at all levels.
• High level command of the English language