Quality Compliance & Systems Specialist

Overview

Job Title:

Quality Systems Specialist

Location:

Tonganoxie, Kansas, 66086

M-F: 7AM
-3:30 PM (Ability to flex schedule including working OT and some weekends)

Pay Rate: $20.29

The role of Quality Systems Specialist is to execute strategies and objectives to ensure the achievement of the Quality Department’s goals. Specifically, the role will assist in coordinating daily operational functions in the areas of food safety and quality by focusing on follow through action closures. This role will require a focus on continuous improvement processes and implementation of best practices to ensure that the needs of the customer and the consumer are achieved on an ongoing basis.

• Identifies and closes quality gaps within key Quality systems, including Product Conformance, Raw Material & Product Traceability, Receiving, Storage, & Handling, Non-Conformance SAP system, and Internal/External Audits.
• Conducts daily disposition and product release, ensuring adherence to quality standards, and actively tracks and monitors the product hold process.
• Performs daily, weekly, and monthly reconciliation of the site quarantine area for all quality/food safety holds of finished product/raw material. This includes on-site inspection of storage trailers, maintaining reconciliation documentation and files, and potentially inspecting and verifying material destruction at Hill's site or a third-party location.
• Manages daily tasks including SAP functions, paperwork retrieval, and communication with corporate and distribution centers.
• Develops cross-functional partnerships to provide support to other departments and functional areas.
• Ensures full compliance with safety and other EOHS requirements.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Knowledge of cGMPs
• Working knowledge of business process systems (e.g., Microsoft or Google)
• Ability to work a flexible schedule, including overtime and some weekends
• Ability to lift up to 50 pounds
• Must comply with PPE requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as Food Science, Engineering, Chemistry, Biology, or Microbiology.
• 1+ years of quality department experience in a food manufacturing environment.
• Previous auditing experience with organizations like the American Institute of Baking (AIB), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), and Safe Quality Food (SQF).
• FSPCA Preventative Controls for Animal Food Certification (PCQI), with knowledge of HACCP and SPC.
• Prior SAP experience.
• Ability to operate a forklift.

Hiregenics offers benefits (based on eligibility) that include the following: health, dental, vision, term life, short term disability, AD&D, 401(k), Sick time, and other types of paid leaves (as required by law), Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

Hire Genics is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits any kind of unlawful discrimination and harassment. Innova Solutions is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, color, religion or belief, national origin, citizenship, social or ethnic origin, sex, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by the statutes, rules, and regulations in the locations where it operates.

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Hire Genics does not discriminate against applicants based on citizenship status, immigration status, or national origin, in accordance with 8 U.S.C. § 1324b. The company will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in a manner that complies with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and other applicable laws.