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Quality Manager

Wolcott, Indiana

Who are we?

As a leader in modern nutrition, Egglife Foods is reimagining the future of food by harnessing the power of eggs to transform traditionally flour-based products. Our company, currently poised to be the next big category disruptor in the CPG industry, hatched its debut product - egglife® egg white wraps in 2020. Created by a desire to champion wellness without sacrificing taste, they are made using a patented technology that converts liquid egg to solid matter, resulting in a protein-packed, low-carb tortilla-style wrap. Unlike the competition, egglife is the only wrap to deliver a trifecta of what consumers are looking for in a better-for-you wrap; taste, versatility and nutrition… or what we like to refer to as The Perfect Wrap®. egglife wraps are available in six varieties – original, southwest, everything bagel, Italian, sweet cinnamon, and our new Garden Salsa flavor. All of our wraps are cleverly crafted at our very own manufacturing facility in Wolcott, Indiana.

Egglife Foods is experiencing tremendous growth and success. After 3 years in market, we’re experiencing results that are nothing short of amazing including:

· #1 Category Share of Healthy Refrigerated Wraps

· #1 Incremental Item to Dairy Category

· Rocket ship growth from 381 to 11,500 locations and 22X growth in ACV in 24 months!

· 2020 Gold Stevie Award Winner for Best New Product

· 2021 NOSH Best New Product Award Finalist

· 2021 Progressive Grocer Editor’s Pick Award

· 2021 CNBC Best of Small Business Award Winner

· 2022 Instacart Fastest Growing Emerging Brand (#14)

· 2022 Chicago Innovation Awards Top 100 Finalist

· 2023 Good Housekeeping Best Snack Awards Winner – Protein Packed Category

To learn more visit us at www.egglifefoods.com.

Summary:

As the brand is growing so is our team! Egglife Foods is looking for a Quality Manager to join our team, reporting to the Vice President of R&D. This position will be a key member of the staff helping drive teamwork, building teamwork and proper culture. Additionally, the position will be responsible for planning, defining and directing the site quality control, food safety and sanitation programs to ensure compliance with all procedures and policies. The position will also be responsible for ensuring compliance to GMP standards and all company, local, state, and federal policies, procedures, and standards. The Quality Manager will champion the monitoring and maintaining of all plant quality programs by complying with current FDA standards and ensuring all internal procedures and processes are accurate and performing to expectations.

Essential Functions:

• Plans, defines and directs the plant Quality, Food Safety, Sanitation programs to ensure compliance to all procedures and policies to ensure compliance to GMP standards, company requirements, regulatory, federal and local laws.
• Monitors and maintains the plant Quality/Food Safety/Sanitation programs by complying to current FDA standards and ensuring all internal procedures, processes are accurate and performing to expectations.
• Act as the Food Safety/HACCP coordinator.
• Annually verifies all HACCP/Food Safety plan or when required due to project changes.
• Leads the development and compliance of new quality systems/programs across the facility.
• Manage all internal and external inspections/regulatory visits.
• Lead audit preparation activities, accompany inspector, complete necessary reports and posting.
• Perform follow-ups to non-conformances found and provide responses as appropriate, within the time designated.
• Provide Quality/Food Safety/Sanitation support and resources for commercialization.
• Train the site on proper inspection procedures and practices and assist in ensuring the facility is inspection ready at all times.
• Ensure proper documentation and appropriate steps are in place for start up, shutdowns, changeovers.
• Ensure proper steps are taken with all construction on site.
• Assist in the identification and delivery of Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) through corrective, preventative and continuous improvement activities.
• Ensure all in process specifications are in place with the appropriate quality testing, testing is occurring, testing results are documented, analyzed for trends and saved.
• Review and approved minor change requests and work with the plant staff to update all plans.
• Ensure all Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) requirements and in place and adhered to.
• Ensure that the plant remains SQF-certified.

Additional Functions:

• Familiarize yourself, comply with and ensure departmental personnel always comply with all EggLife Policies.

· Familiarize self, comply with, and ensure departmental personnel comply with Food Defense, QC, HACCP, SQF, GMP, IDEM, OSHA, and EggLife.

· Familiarize self, comply with, and ensure Quality personnel comply with all policies such as those listed within the EggLife Employee Handbook.

· Must treat employees, co-workers and management with respect and courtesy.

• All other duties as required

Qualifications and Skills:

• Degree in Food Science or equivalent degree preferred
• Also requires a minimum of 5 years experience in quality and/or food safety leadership role.
• Minimum of 5 years experience in operations/quality/technical (R&D role)
• Experience in a lean, food manufacturing environment is preferred.
• Experience with GFSI, SQF, FSSC. HACCP and PCQI certified.
• He or she will also demonstrate strong leadership, teamwork and communication skills and have the ability to work on a computer (understanding Outlook, Word, Excel, etc.).
• Proven experience in leading and developing direct reports.
• Strong written, verbal and presentation skills and experience/knowledge of statistical processes

Egglife Foods is an equal employment opportunity employer. The company's policy is not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, religion, national origin, age, disability, military status, or any other basis protected by law.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $85,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Referral program
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday
• On call
• Weekends as needed

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Wolcott, IN 47995: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Experience:

• Quality control: 5 years (Preferred)

Work Location: In person