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Ajinomoto Foods North America, FSQA Manager in Toluca, Illinois

This job was posted by https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov : For more information, please see: https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov/jobs/13401372\ FSQA Manager\ \ US-IL-Toluca\ \ Job ID: 2026-9009\ Type: Regular Full-Time\ # of Openings: 1\ Toluca Plant\ \ Overview\ \

As a key member of the Plant Leadership Team, the FSQA Manager ensures that all products meet quality and food safety standards in compliance with AFNA policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements. This role leads the Food Safety & Quality Assurance (FSQA) and Sanitation departments, by developing and implementing foods safety, quality and sanitation programs, managing compliance with regulatory and customer standards and overseeing day-to-day operations to ensure continuous improvement.

The FSQA Manager is responsible for FSQA and Sanitation team members, ensuring audit readiness, maintaining accurate records, and upholding sanitation standards. Servicing as the voice of the customer, this role drives the culture of food safety and quality excellence throughout the facility.

\ \ Responsibilities\ \

Quality and Food Safety Management\ Fully implement and manage all AFNA FSQA and Sanitation policies and procedures.\ Develop, test, implement and manage quality operational procedures, practices, requirements and standards, according to scientifically sound protocols (e.g. SPC), to ensure all products meet AFNA quality, food safety, sanitation and regulatory requirements.\ Manage the monthly facility assessment process. Ensure that corrective actions are identified by the appropriate responsible person and department and verify that corrective actions are completed on a timely basis. Ensure that the facility is audit ready every day and represent facility during all third-party, customer and regulatory audits.\ Provides the audit response and feedback for all third party and regulatory audits.\ Implement programs to monitor and assist in response to customer complaints and potential food borne illnesses.\ Development of crisis plans and the communication of FSQA/Sanitation responses and plans to local management.\ Develop new plant Procedures as needed to facilitate implementation of the Corporate FSQA (SQF) policies and procedures.\ Knowledge of recall system, regulatory authority and crisis communications is required, along with minimum annual test of effectiveness and modification when necessary.\ Responsible for AFNA finished product micro testing procedures and results with focused root cause and corrective action analysis to eliminate issues.\ Ensure that all environmental monitoring procedures, particularly the positive swab investigation process, are fully implemented.\ Responsible for implementing all test procedures identified in the FSQA manual. Ensure testing procedures are in place that meet the companys food safety, quality and sanitation requirements.\ Responsible for holding product that is out of specification and releasing product for sale if deemed to be within specification and regulatory requirements.\ Create, Maintain, Verify and Validate of HACCP, SOP, SSOPs, Cleaning Procedures and pre-requisite programs.\ Ensure reporting is properly conducted in a timely manner including reports that are critical to the food safety, quality and sanitation programs.\ Act as primary facility representative for all regulatory contacts and communications within the facility. Maintain positive professional relationship with local USDA inspectors or other regulatory personnel.\ Ensure all equipment responsible for food safety, quality and sanitation is functioning properly at pre-op and during production. Work with the Maintenance and Production Departments to allev\ \ \ \ Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.\ \

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