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Food Safety/Quality Assurance Coordinator

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201526432

Job Description

Excellence. Pride. Integrity. Compassion. Trust. Are you ready to plant your career in a place where words like these serve as the foundation for doing business every day? At Michigan Sugar, our purpose is Making Life Sweeter, and our mission is Creating Growth and Opportunity.

Michigan Sugar Company has an immediate full-time opportunity for a Food Safety/Quality Assurance Coordinator, located at the Bay City Facility. This position will require travel to our other 3 facilities in Caro, Croswell and Sebewaing, as needed.

Job Summary:

The Food Safety/Quality Assurance coordinator will act as the PCQI/SQF Practitioner for the site and will manage overall development, implementation, and maintenance of the food and feed safety system, including all prerequisite programs, hazard analysis and food safety plans. Note – The food safety system includes food for human consumption as well as food for animals (co-products).

Primary Responsibilities:

Quality/Food Safety - Ensure all products shipped from the facility meet all regulatory, internal, and customer specifications.
Calibration - Maintain calibration schedules for equipment related to Food Safety and final Product testing. Work with Department Managers to ensure calibrations are being performed as required. Retain copies of all 3rd party certifications and calibrations. Make determination of disposition of product affected by out of calibration instruments, as necessary.
Corrective Actions - Issue CAPA’s related to Food Safety, work with team members to ensure that CAPA’s are being properly investigated and followed up on. Maintain the CAPA log.
Customer Complaints – Work with Maintenance and Department Managers to investigate Food Safety related Customer Complaints. Issue corrective and preventative actions as necessary and follow the CAPA’s to completion. Work with Customer Representatives on providing solutions to the affected Customer.
Crisis Management - Member of the Crisis Management Team. Schedule and conduct a mock crisis exercise at least annually.
Management of Change - Review documents for any necessary changes to the Food Safety System. Perform validation studies and approve any process or equipment changes prior to the change. Update all forms and procedures, as necessary.
Document Control - Maintain all documents in the Food Safety System. Reviews documents at least annually, issuing updates, tracking changes, and revising documents as necessary. Maintain a filing system so documents are easily accessible and are retained for the required length of time.
Food Defense - Oversee the development of the Food Defense Plan, perform training on food defense to all employees, test and verify the food defense plan during monthly walkthrough, review the food defense plan at least annually.
Foreign Materials - Review foreign material inspection logs, metal detector logs, and aid in the clean-up and disposition of any product believed to be affected by product contamination.
Audits – Perform monthly sanitation self-inspections of entire facility and document findings. Primary participant during customer and regulatory audits. Document, issue, implement and monitor preventive and corrective actions from all internal and external audits. Communicate audit results to management.
Food Safety Plan – Conduct annual review of plan. Revise plan whenever changes are required.
Mock Recall – Direct and review mock recall tests (forward and back) on annual basis. Document findings and issue corrective actions as needed.
Verification of Monitoring Records - Provide final verification and file all paperwork. Review documents for trends and issue corrective and preventative actions as needed.
Non-conforming Product - Document product holds, issue corrective and preventative actions, where necessary, and oversee disposition of product affected by a product hold.
Pest Control – Responsible for the overall planning, execution, and performance of the Pest Control Program. Review reports, issue work orders/corrective actions and monitor trends.
Product Sampling & Analysis - Maintain Lab Manual and 3rd party accreditation certificates for external labs. Review daily test results and investigate out of spec results. Conduct annual proficiency testing with lab staff.
Water Quality – Obtain annual city water report. Ensure samples are taken at least quarterly for analysis and review test results to ensure water meets specifications as an ingredient.
Training - Develop and oversee the employee training program as it relates to food safety and legality. Provide annual refresher training, maintain training skills registers and training records. Provide periodic training as documents and procedures are updated.
Verification & Validation - Oversee the overall validation, effectiveness review, and verification of program documents, forms, and records. Schedule and review annual validation of all magnets and filter baskets.
Waste Disposal - Train employees on disposal procedures, perform walkthroughs to check the effectiveness of the waste disposal procedures, issue corrective and preventative actions, as necessary.

Position Qualifications:

BS degree in Business, Chemistry or Food Science related field preferred.
Certified Safe Quality Food (SQF) Practitioner (certified in SQF and HACCP) or ability to obtain.
Certified PCQI or ability to obtain.
Minimum of 3 years Food Safety or Quality Systems experience preferred.

Key Competencies:

Ability to deliver results working within collective bargaining agreement
Self-starter and highly motivated to implement change
Working knowledge of Microsoft office software programs (Outlook, Word, Excel, Power point)
Ability to quickly problem solve and make decisions
Strong conflict resolution skills
Site Specific Document Control Administrator (DCA) – maintain hard copies of controlled documentation and maintain distribution lists
Flexible and able to work in fast paced and varying environments
Ability to work well with others in a team environment
Leading by demonstrating ethics and integrity, displaying drive and purpose, demonstrated capability to learn, managing self, increasing self-awareness
Provides model behavior to demonstrate corporate value
Demonstrates excellence in oral and written communication

Necessary Skills:

Effective verbal and written communication skills
Planning, budgeting, and administrative skills
Leadership and motivation skills
Software/computer skills

Training Required:

HACCP certification
Completion of SQF course and successfully pass the SQF exam
General factory safety requirements (right to know)
Food-related Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)
Food Defense
Pest Management
Internal Auditing

NOTE: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by staff assigned to this position. The above statements are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills that may be required. All staff may be required to perform duties outside their normal responsibilities, as needed.

Michigan Sugar Company offers competitive salary, opportunity for professional growth, and provides excellent medical insurance 100% company paid. A comprehensive benefits package includes: dental and life insurances, 401k match, paid holidays, vacation, sick leave and more. To learn more visit www.michigansugar.com.

Additional Requirements

Michigan Sugar Company was founded in 1906 when six smaller sugar companies merged their operations. In 2002, Michigan Sugar Company became a grower-owned cooperative and in 2004, it merged with Monitor Sugar Company to form the company that exists today.

Michigan Sugar Company is headquartered in Bay City and has sugar beet processing facilities in Bay City, Caro, Croswell and Sebewaing, Michigan. Its nearly 900 grower-owners plant and harvest up to 160,000 acres of sugar beets each year in 20 Michigan counties, as well as Ontario, Canada. Those beets are sliced at the factories and turned into about 1.3 billion pounds of sugar annually.

That sugar is sold to industrial, commercial and retail customers under the Pioneer and Big Chief brands.

Michigan Sugar Company has 930 year-round employees and an additional 1,100 seasonal workers. It is the No. 1 employer in Huron County, the No. 2 employer in Bay and Sanilac counties and the No. 3 employer in Tuscola County. The company’s annual payroll is more than $65 million and its annual local economic impact is about $500 million.

Michigan Sugar Company is the third largest of eight sugar beet processing companies in the United States and Michigan is one of 11 states where sugar beets are grown in the country.

Michigan Sugar Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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Michigan Sugar Company

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Bay City, Michigan 48708

Job Code Number

201526432

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Expiration Date

6/7/2024

O*NET Code

51-1011.00

O*NET Occupation

First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers

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