Quality Manager

Job Posting:
**Ready For a Tasty New Challenge?**

**Overview**:
Quality Manager will Manage and improve food safety and quality programs, ensuring compliance with internal policies and external regulations. Lead the execution of customer, regulatory, and third-party audits, while addressing incidents and implementing effective corrective actions. Oversee QA department operations, including training and risk analysis for continuous enhancement. This is a 20 months contract role.

**What Wonderbrands Offers**:

- Wonderbrands believes in Home Grown Talent and accelerated career growth
- Competitive Compensation, Health, and Dental Benefits
- Pension plan with matching contribution
- Quarterly incentive program
- Discount program that covers almost everything under the sun - Restaurants, gyms, shopping, etc.

**Responsibilities**:

- Partner with Sr. Manufacturing Quality Manager, Bakery Manager and internal teams to lead, coach, direct and develop personnel in the areas of Quality & Food Safety, building a strong food safety program
- Models behavior to meet or exceed Wonderbrands standards for safety, food safety, and environmental practices.
- Treats employees and co-workers with respect and dignity.
- Ensure pre-requisite programs as outlined by Wonderbrands policies/procedures are implemented effectively for producing a safe product; Develops and manages QA and FS programs including HACCP, GMP
- Serves as site HACCP/Food Safety coordinator to lead Quality and Food Safety continuous improvement
- Monitor plant activity to ensure compliance to GMP’s and implementation of QA/FS policies. Maintains QC/QA documents (policies, procedures and records) as required;
- Leads and facilitates the successful execution of customer, regulatory, certification and third-party audits
- Identifies areas of improvement based on self-inspection and audit findings; ensures critical gaps are closed immediately and follows up to ensure other gaps are addressed/closed in a timely manner based on risk; Adapts procedural changes and engages cross functional partners to ensure effective corrective actions are put in place and prevent reoccurrence
- Leads investigation and analysis of quality and food safety incidents / complaints. Ensures root cause and effective corrective actions are put in place to address immediate risks and prevent reoccurrence.
- Conducts risk analyses on quality and food safety deviations and escalates as required
- Develops training materials and trains cross functional teams and employees to support and reinforce quality standards, GMP’s/HACCP; ensuring 100% completion of food safety training
- Support R&D initiatives, ensure proper quality and food safety documentation is in place and standards are met for new product launches.
- Ensures food safety and quality risks are properly identified and mitigated during construction and maintenance activities.
- Organizes, prioritizes and manages work responsibilities for direct reports in the quality department. Sets expectations and holds quality team accountable for meeting expectations.
- Monitor the pest control program to ensure compliance with Wonderbrands policies and standards and works closely with 3rd party pest control service provider.
- Leads the Environmental Program and supports sanitation to ensure compliance to Wonderbrands Policies.
- Any other projects, as assigned.

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree in science with a preference for a microbiology or Food Science background;
- Must have worked in the food industry (preferably bakery production) for a minimum of five years;
- A minimum of 4 years of supervisory experience;
- Great team building skills; Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Strong problem solving, organization and analytical skills
- Ability to define performance measures related to the quality, food safety and sanitation.
- Must be able to work independently and set priorities

Wonderbrands, is a leading Canadian bakery with 140 years of experience in baking packaged breads. We are the makers of Wonder Bread, Country Harvest, D’Italiano, Gadoua, and Casa Mendosa. We have a network of 14 Bakery Manufacturing facilities across Canada.

Wonderbrands, now part of the FGF Brands Group of companies, is unlocking an incredible opportunity for growth through a focus on production innovation capabilities, through a leading-edge supply chain practice and investing deeply in communities where we bake. We are heavily focused on embracing an entrepreneurial drive and a highly collaborative start up culture with an emphasis on cross-functional collaboration.

**Disclaimer**: The above describes the general responsibilities, required knowledge and skills. Please keep in mind that other duties may be added or this description may be amended at any time.

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