Quality Assurance Manager - Vaco, LLC
Memphis, TN 38127
About the Job
Employer Industry: Manufacturing
Locations being offered for this opportunity: Memphis, TN
Why Consider This Job Opportunity
- Competitive Base Pay
- Health benefits, including 401K and HSA
- Steady Monday-Friday schedule with PTO and holiday schedule
What To Expect (Job Responsibilities)
- Promotes a culture of food safety, as well as a ‘’bottom-up’’ communication approach at the site when it comes to quality, with employees of all levels.
- Maintains, improves, and implement the site’s Business Management System.
- Manages document control and updates the site’s procedures, instructions, and forms on the Safety Chain platform.
- Oversees and updates the site’s training curriculum on the Alchemy platform to ensure timely completion.
- Leads the planning, coordination, execution, and closure of all site audits (internal audits, GMP inspections, external audits, etc.) and promotes the implication of a multidisciplinary team.
- Facilitates the investigation and closure of issues (complaints, non-conformities, audit and inspection findings, supplier incidents, and other process failures) to determine and address root causes with corrective and preventive actions (CAPA).
- Follows up on open non-conformities and corrective/preventive action (CAPA) plans to ensure timely closure. Shares best practices, corrective and preventive actions as well as process improvements ideas with other sites quality manager.
- Delivers training and coaching to develop and raise all employees’ competence levels in quality and food safety.
- Follows site quality key performance indicators (KPI’s) (such as product and process results, complaints, non-conformities, training completion, etc.) to detect trends and communicates with multidisciplinary team to develop action plans.
- Collaborates to food safety and quality risk assessments and proactively identifies control measures.
- Assesses and approves site suppliers (raw materials and service providers) against standard criteria through the collection and review of documents as well as through conducting on-site audits as needed.
- Is the site’s appointed food defense coordinator, recall coordinator, HACCP team leader, and Preventive Controls Qualified Individual (PCQI) (or ensures a competent designate assumes these roles).
- Supports the laboratory manager as needed and is their backup.
- A quality, food safety mindset;
- Strong communication skills with the ability to positively influence others;
- Attention to detail, critical thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills.
Vaco values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.
EEO Notice
Vaco is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.
Vaco LLC and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco LLC and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact HR@vaco.com .
Vaco also wants all applicants to know their rights that workplace discrimination is illegal.
By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. You also agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.
Privacy Notice
Vaco LLC and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries (“we,” “our,” or “Vaco”) respects your privacy and are committed to providing transparent notice of our policies.
- California residents may access Vaco’s HR Notice at Collection for California Applicants and Employees here.
- Virginia residents may access our state specific policies here.
- Residents of all other states may access our policies here.
- Canadian residents may access our policies in English here and in French here.
- Residents of countries governed by GDPR may access our policies here.
Pay Transparency Notice
Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:
- the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
- licensure and certification requirements;
- office location and other geographic considerations;
- other business and organizational needs.
With that said, as required by local law, Vaco believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.