Manager, Food Safety and Quality Assurance

Hungry for a high-growth opportunity? Lily's Toaster Grills is one of the fastest-growing frozen food brands in America - now in nearly every major grocery retailer nationwide. Help us keep the momentum sizzling by building on top notch quality programs and securing SQF certification!

Lily's Toaster Grills

Our vision is to bring homemade quality and care from the freezer aisle to every household in America. We provide our customers with the highest quality, best-tasting, most convenient frozen sandwiches possible. We give back to the community - donating 1% of the sandwiches we produce to families in need. Golden and crispy on the outside, gooey and cheesy on the inside, there is nothing better than a Lily's Toaster Grills sandwich.

What You Will Do

With ambitious expansion plans on the immediate horizon, this is a unique opportunity for a Food Safety & Quality Assurance professional to experience personal and professional growth while also having an immediate impact on the business. The Manager, Food Safety & Quality Assurance will be the subject matter expert for all food safety, regulatory, and compliance matters across the company, and will ensure that company procedures and GMPs are followed daily. Splitting time between the production floor and the office, this role will lead the strategy while ensuring business needs are met.

Responsibilities :

• Implement, build on, and adhere to strong food safety programs, including pest control, sanitation, raw material inspection, environmental monitoring, and foreign material control.
• Ensure compliance with all customer and 3rd party audit requirements, including, federal, state, and customer regulations, serving as the primary contact for all audits, inspections, customer complaints, and internal training.
• Work closely with Operations, R&D, Procurement, Logistics, Marketing and other functional groups to drive a culture of food safety across all functions.
• Manage and mentor the quality assurance and sanitation teams, ensuring their work is accurate, effective, and collaborative.
• Effectively identify food safety and quality risks, provide solutions to mitigate identified risks, and manage the implementation of solutions.
• Secure and maintain SQF certification as the SQF Practitioner, and implement and maintain compliance with the SQF Food Safety Code. Stay current on changes to SQF code, regulatory standards, and customer expectations to ensure continuous improvement.
• Lead the development, documentation, and validation of the SQF Food Safety and Quality Management System and ensure site readiness for annual SQF audits and unannounced inspections. Conduct regular internal audits and facilitate corrective actions in collaboration with relevant departments.
• Oversee daily sanitation operations; verify effectiveness through routine monitoring testing; investigate sanitation-related deviations or findings, and lead corrective and preventive actions to avoid recurrence.
• Maintain the approved supplier program and develop and conduct a supplier audit process.
• Manage the product sampling and environmental testing program with a third-party laboratory.

Who You Are

The ideal candidate is a Quality and Food Safety Professional who is entrepreneurial and excited to be a part of building a great packaged food business. You are an accomplished, hands-on individual who has a passion for building a culture that has food safety, product quality, and ultimately, the consumer, at its core.You are highly structured and have impeccable problem solving skills.

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Benefits

Lily's Toaster Grills is committed to attracting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce of entrepreneurs hungry to build a great brand and business. Our five core values are :