Manager, Import-Export & Food Safety (Finance)
Primary Responsibility:
Plans, develops, and implements techniques, processes and procedures for controlling the necessary level of food storage safety and quality by coordinating with production, engineering, warehouse, suppliers and customers to resolve quality problems and ensures compliance with OSHA, FDA, USDA, SQF and other relevant standards. Oversees the development, implementation, review and maintenance of the SQF System, including food safety fundamentals, and manages the import/export processes and regulations for compliance.
What You'll Do:
• Establishes and monitors production, packaging, shipping, and warehousing standards by studying operations sequence, material flow, functional statements, organizational charts and project information to determine worker functions and responsibilities as they relate to quality and food safety.
• Interacts with USDA, FDA, and other officials by communicating in a timely manner regarding customer requests or inquiries related to product disposition, special shipping requirements and recall information between Operations and the customer, and reports any possible food safety hazards or threats to upper management immediately upon discovery.
• Plans, promotes, and organizes training activities related to food quality and food safety, including onboard training for new hires regarding safety, security, and other relevant areas, training facility management in the quality assurance theory and practice, processes and procedures, and communicating to relevant staff information essential to ensure the effective implementation and maintenance of the SQF system.
• Serve as a compliance officer for the Company and proactively work on job related safety issues by ensuring internal QC functions are conducted and outlined in QC SOP's and taking appropriate action to ensure the integrity of the overall SQF System.
• Proposes responses to any regulatory agencies action such as refused entries, FTP's, samples, inedible product, etc. and works with management to further develop import/export programs and activity to prevent or minimize future occurrences and works with regulatory agencies to further establish import and export future policy and programs that enhance the system.
• Maintains internal SOP's such as Sanitation, storage of pet food, repack to domestic, presentation of shipments, and other programs which support the establishments continued activities.
What Experience and Education You Need:
• High School Diploma and five (5) years of work experience in quality assurance/control.
What Could Set You Apart :
• Practicing SQF Practitioner, HACCP Certified, PCQI
• Oversee, train and mentor QC technicians.
Physical Requirements:
• The physical demands described below are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job
• Requires the ability to sit for long periods of time, with frequent interruptions
• Requires several hours per day of sitting, getting up and down from chairs, and reaching, or bending
• Requires manual dexterity with normal hand and finger movements for typical office work
• Talking, hearing, and seeing are important elements of completing assigned tasks
• May require travel by automobile and airplane
• May require visiting facility operations in temperatures at or below freezing
• May carry loads related to travel and occasionally lifts, carries, positions, or moves objects weighing up to 20 pounds
• Requires the use of various electronic tools
• Occasionally works evenings or weekends in order to complete objectives or to attend meetings
• Requires the ability to relate to others beyond giving and receiving instructions: must partner with colleagues without exhibiting behavioral extremes
• Requires the performance of work activities including reasoning, negotiating, instructing, persuading, or speaking with others; and respond appropriately to constructive feedback from executive management
Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
What We Offer:
Our associates know the answer to the question What's in it for me We offer best-in-class benefit programs and continuously work with our associates to ensure that our offerings meet the needs of their health and financial well-being. When you join Americold you join a values-oriented company with a clear mission. We help our customers feed the world.
The Company's good-faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting for this position is $86,000 - $107,000 annually. Rate may vary based on work location.
Americold is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and complies with applicable employment laws.
EOE/AA M/F/D/V DFW.
ABOUT US
Americold is a global provider of temperature-controlled infrastructure. We partner with farmers and food producers to ensure their perishable and frozen product reaches foods suppliers, restaurants, and your local grocery store without spoilage. Our customers, which include some of the most respected brands in the food industry, rely on our expertise and commitment to safety in order to deliver on their commitments.
