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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.
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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\
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Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with
disabilities.\
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