Quality Manager

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MGP Ingredients is a leading supplier of premium distilled spirits and food ingredient solutions. Its Distilling Solutions segment provides bourbons, whiskeys, ryes, gins, and vodkas to craft and multinational brands. MGP's own Branded Spirits business is growing following the 2021 acquisition of Luxco, a top spirits producer, bottler, supplier, and importer, and the 2023 acquisition of Penelope Bourbon, known for its wide range of uniquely blended expressions. Ingredient Solutions delivers nutritional, functional wheat- and pea-based ingredients aligned with consumer trends. The company operates in locations across the Midwestern U.S., and overseas in Northern Ireland and Mexico.

The Opportunity

Under the guidance of the Branded Spirits Quality Manager, the Quality Control Manager provides quality control leadership for the plant, ensuring product safety and quality of all products produced. The manager ensures that the quality management programs and product safety systems such as HACCP, GMPs, SOPs, or any food safety certifications support the manufacturing plant's quality initiatives and comply with applicable laws and regulations. The Quality Control Manager also conducts audits of processes, systems, and production to ensure excellent quality production.

What You Will Be Doing

• Responsible for all quality control programs (Quest), systems and instrumentation.
• Supervise all Saint Louis quality control associates.
• Works with R&D to ensure all product specifications are developed for new products and maintained throughout batching process and production for all products.
• Plans and conducts periodic internal audits to ensure compliance with appropriate procedures. Shall include raw material suppliers and co-packer audits.
• Works with Luxco Supply Chain and raw material suppliers on issues or defects for proper crediting, root cause analysis and corrective actions. Enters proper documentation into Raw Material Complaints program.
• Conducts and / or supervises studies to determine cause, effect, and corrective measures required to remedy deviations from desirable standards of quality.
• Ensures quality procedures, work instructions and associated documentation are properly developed, reviewed, implemented, and updated.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Conduct all quality training or ensure training has been conducted for all plant employees.
• Demonstrate the ability to conduct independent research and ability to use problem solving / root cause analysis tools.
• All other duties assigned by the Branded Spirits Quality Manager.

Who We Are Looking For

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions. While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands or fingers, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; and reach with hands and arms. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate. Includes frequently used office equipment, computer software programs, manuals, books, or other written resources, hand tools, power tools, two-way radios, and other tools / equipment / resources; Includes use of sanitation equipment and lab / field equipment. Various lab equipment, two-way radios will be required to use. If you require a reasonable accommodation in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to Caitlin Zbikowski, Talent Manager @ c.zbikowski@mgpi.com.

Compensation and Benefits

Compensation is competitive and is commensurate with experience. MGP offers exceptional medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, 401(k) Match and PTO.

All successful candidates for this position will be required to submit to a criminal background check and drug test.

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